Questioning Q

Hello Purple Room parents,

First off, I would like to let you know that we did not have our picnic on Friday. We will try again when we can all find our listening ears, walking feet, gentle hands and kind words.

Secondly, because of classroom behavior over the last few weeks I have chosen to stop doing shares for the time being. Sharing must be earned and unfortunately, we are not at a place where we have earned that privilege yet. Please do not bring shares to school until notified. They have become too much of a distraction for the children and a problem in the classroom. My hope is that soon we will be in a place to start sharing again. In the meantime, I encourage you to discuss with your child the idea of walking feet, gentle hands, kind words and listening ears as well as help them practice at home. As a class, we will do the same.

As for this week, we will be focusing on the letter Q. Many of our students are still learning the difference between questions and comments, so for this reason we will be learning about the 6 types of questions (who, what, where, when, why, how). Each day we will have a "question of the day" which we will discuss as a class as well as reflect upon in our journals. Some of the other fun things we will be doing this week are: q-tip art, making a class quilt, discussing queens as well as making a queen craft, learning about quarters and other coins, and making quesadillas.

We are looking forward to the fun activities planned. I hope you and your families had a wonderful weekend!

Warm regards,
Shaina

Fun With the letter O!

As some of you may know, I am new to the blogging world. It has been a while since the last blog, so we have a lot to cover! The Purple Room has been very busy this month! In the last few weeks, we have celebrated birthdays, made lots of fun crafts, and made yummy food! We talked all about the ocean for letter O week. We learned about the different sea creatures that live in the ocean and even made our own ocean in a bottle! We experimented with the color orange. We made orange juice as well as grilled cheese sandwiches that were a hit!

We celebrated two birthdays! Allison turned 5 and Shreya turned 4. We read stories together and ate pizza and fruit.


















Letter O week:
We used red and yellow to make the color orange. Messy, but so much fun!








We made oceans in a bottle! Cool!





We made an Octopus. We decorated his tentacles with Cheerios to make the suction cups.






We made orange juice and grilled cheese sandwiches! Delicious!






























And as always we had loads of fun outside!


















We are looking forward to P week and all the fun that lies ahead!

Shaina