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   Ms. Terry, Inclusion Teacher   Miss Sheila, Paraprofessional          WELCOME!

Week of 03/23/2026

Hello Purple Room Families! I hope this message finds you enjoying a beautiful weekend!

This week we returned to a focus on a featured author's stories. We read  Pete the Cat stories written by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean. Our first story was "Pete the Cat - I Love My White Shoes". This was a fun story with a jazzy tune that repeated throughout the story. Pete loved his new white shoes, Pete's white shoes changed color each time he stepped into something of that color. In the end, we learned the moral of the story. "Moral" is a new vocabulary word for us, it means a lesson to learn that can help us at another time in the future. Pete learned not to get upset and to keep moving along. A child recapped the moral for us saying, "Sing your song, and move along!" It became our mantra for the week! The children used an art medium of their choice to decorate Pete's shoe, they colored Pete blue, and created his face. We asked the children what Pete stepped in to make his shoe that color. the answers were very creative! He stepped in a variety of foods, cotton candy, rainbows, etc! 

A parent was able to visit us one afternoon, the children enjoyed his reading of "Pete the Cat - Cavecat Pete." Thank you for joining us! At the end of the week, we read "Pete and his Four Groovy Buttons." Another groovy story with a jazzy refrain that repeated throughout. In this story, Pete has a shirt with four buttons. One at a time a button pops off and we had to figure out how many were left. After the story we placed our own Pete the Cat number line across our circle time rug. The children each picked a button, named it's color and shape, then placed them on the number line. We counted the buttons after each addition, reinforcing 1:1 counting. We then varied the number added or subtracted to get a new total. The children are learning the math terms "add, plus, subract/take away" and "minus". This was a good week for enjoying this author's fun stories at the same time learning a moral, which was not to get too upset over little problems, just figure out a solution or sing a song and move along. A perfect way to recognize how to match the magnitude of our reactions to the magnitude of the problem. We also had great practice at color and shape identification, counting, and the number sense of adding and subtracting. The bonus was an introduction to the JAZZ style of music, my personal favorite. Our afternoon children also learned about Jazz in the story "Jaguar's Jungleberry Jamboree" for our letter of the week - J! How serendiptous that these stories met on the same week, perfect for enjoying some jazz music!

Monday and Tuesday will be special for all of us as we enjoy your visits during our Readers' Picnic days! If you are unable to join us during the times offered, and wish to come, please contact me directly and we can schedule another day or time during April!

Other featured activities in the classroom this week: green paint at the easel; playdoh for fine motor actions (rolling, cutting, shaping); blue rings and colorful buttons with cups and scoops in our sensory table; a wonderful donated car tower and track set; whole alphabet songs and review - noticing upper and lower case letters that match or do not match; the letter of the week for our p.m. class; counting board games; character-shape-color matching game; and sensory sound tubes in our Discovery center. We shook the tubes and guessed what was inside by sound, then we opened the window to see if we guessed it correctly!

 A full and fun learning week!

Thank you for all you do !

Ms. Terry & Miss Sheila

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