Dear Parents,
We continued our farm unit this week by listening to a story called The Little Red Hen, by Pal Galdone. The children also acted out the story with puppets. The Little Red Hen story is an old Folktale about a little red hen and her lazy friends who are not willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it. The story taught the children a good lesson on how important it is to work together as a team. After reading the story we baked delicious banana bread. Luckily, we all helped baked the bread therefore, we all got to eat it.
We listened to the Three Little Pigs, by Caroline Bucknall and then recreated our own version of the story by making a picture which included the house of sticks, the house of straw, the house of bricks and of course, the three little pigs.
In music, the children were introduced to the viola and listened to how beautiful it sounded when Miss Michelle gave a demonstration. The children were all excited when they had an opportunity to try it. They also compared the viola to the violin. The difference the children noticed was the size. The viola is larger than the violin.
We also attended a fantastic concert given by Nancy and Tamara. Nancy
We concluded the farm unit by making 3-D horses and cowboys.
Next week we looked forward to beginning our Holiday Celebrations. We will be celebrating holidays around the world. If anyone would like to come in share their holiday tradition with the class, please let us know.
Reminder: The Scholastic Book Fair will begin on Tuesday, December 11th. The volunteer sign up sheet will be in Laetitia’s classroom.
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