Quarter Note Class Newsletter

November 30, 2012

Dear Parents,

Have you ever been to the Suzuki Supermarket?  This week our class created a supermarket.  We learned where all our food comes from.  We focused on food from the farm.  For example, we learned that milk comes from a cow.  We then made butter using cream.  We shook and shook it until it turned into butter.  We also learned that eggs come from chickens. In art we created our own version of a chicken and during cooking we made delicious scrambled eggs. 

 We continued our unit by creating a variety of other farm animals.  Come check out our farm bulletin board!

We enjoyed listening to a story called How an Egg Grows into a Chicken, by Tanya Kant. We then conducted a science experiment.  First we put a raw egg in a glass of water.  Then we put another egg in a glass of water with 8 tablespoons of salt.  Which one do you think floated and which one do you think sank?  Ask your child to tell you the results of the experiment. 

Some new songs we learned  were: “Old MacDonald had a farm,” High-ho the dairy-oh,” and “Take me out to the Farm.” During music the children practiced playing the cello with Miss Michelle.  As you can see, they loved playing it, and did not want to stop.  They also sang and moved to "If You are Happy and you Know it" and some other winter songs.

We also participated in an Old Mac Donald puppet show and listened to Old MacDonald Had a Farm story by Jane Cabrera.

We concluded our week by making delicious muffins with "pig faces" on them.

Just a few reminders: 

~If you have a holiday tradition that you would like to share with the class, please let us know. We would love to have you.

~We will be having a toy drive for Toys for Tots, more information to follow.

~Scholastic Book Fair will be From December 11th to December 15th.

Love,

Ms. Bonne

November 23, 2012 Quarter Note Newsletter

November 23, 2012

Dear Parents,

We had so much fun during the last couple of weeks preparing for Thanksgiving.  We hope you enjoyed all the items the children made for your Thanksgiving table. Some of the projects  included:  Turkey place mats, a tepee place setting, and a Native American Village centerpiece. 

We hope you had a good time at the Thanksgiving celebration. The  children certainly looked like they were having fun.  They did a great job singing at the concert.  They looked absolutely adorable in their turkey costumes.

Thank you so much for all the food that you contributed to the feast. Everything was absolutely delicious! 

We also had a great time celebrating Kieran's third birthday.  The children loved decorating the delicious turkey cupcakes as well as eating them.

November 9, 2012

Dear Parents,

We started our Thanksgiving Feast preparation.  The children created adorable turkey place mats.  They also decorated tepee table place holders for the thanksgiving table.

Please stop by our classroom and take a look at “Ted the Turkey” bulletin board.  The children worked so hard on tracing, cutting and decorating feathers for the turkey. They each cut out two feathers.  The first one they decorated by gluing sequins and feathers onto it.  The children then dictated to us what they were thankful for, which we recorded on the second feather. Some of the children were thankful for their mommies, daddies, and baby sisters & brothers.  Other children were thankful for pasta and other types of food. 

We had a great discussion about how Native Americans lived long ago. We talked about how they fished and hunted for their food and bathed in the river.  We also discussed how they cooked their food on a campfire.  They were a little surprised that people did not have stoves and electricity. 

The children had a lot of fun learning new Thanksgiving songs with Miss Michelle and Yina.  They have been practicing "Ted the Turkey."  They also sang a couple of songs about snow "Down, Down, Down" and "I'm a Little Snowman."  The children also learned about whole notes. 

Our school-wide Thanksgiving Feast will be on Wednesday, November 21^st at 11:30 am.  Please note that school closes at 12:00 pm on November 21st and will be closed on November 22nd and November 23rd.

There will be a sign up sheet in Laetitia’s room, if any one would like to contribute something for the feast.  

Thank you for bringing in the salt shakers.  If anyone has not brought one in, please bring one to school on Tuesday.  Some of the children have already started making their drum/shaker. 

I wish everyone a wonderful safe long weekend.  I look foward to seeing everyone back at school on Tuesday.

Love,

Ms.  Bonne 

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a good time at the Halloween party.  The children looked so adorable in their costumes.  I am sure that you will all agree!  They really seemed to enjoy decorating cookies, making Halloween  puppets, 

creating pumpkin pictures, and marching in the costume parade.  I hope you enjoy looking at all these pictures of your children in their costumes. If you have any additional pictures, please email them to me.



We look forward to beginning our Thanksgiving unit.  Please have your child bring in an empty salt container. We will be using them to make drums.

Love,

Ms. Bonne