News from Ms. Terri's Class: 10/30/09

Hi Moms, Dads and Special Grown-ups,

We've been busy decorating our class room in Autumn leaves. The children have been enjoying story time. We have been reading lots of stories about the Fall and changing colors. We read Lois Ehlert's Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf and did a group painting. We mixed red and yellow and made orange. We had a great time painting the whole table. Ms. Terri and Ms. Julia used the paper to cut out leaf shapes to hang on the trees around the class room.



Our trees were looking rather lonely, so we made some birds after reading Lois Ehlert's Feathers for Lunch. The children chose colors from some of the birds in the story. We made Blue Jays, Cardinals and Goldfinches. We sent our Eric Carle Cats home so they didn't chase our birds!!!


Our birds were lonely and we were looking for something that started with the letter D, so we read one of Ms. Terri's most favorite books by George Rodrigue, Why is Blue Dog Blue? Click here to explore his wonderful web site and a link to a children's art gallery. We had so much fun learning the names of different colors. We chuckled when we found out that many colors are named after a food that they looked like. The children especially liked "chocolate brown" "avocado green" and "apricot orange." It is possible that our new favorite word may be "chartreuse!"
We have a Kitten Class friend named Dante and his name starts with letter D. We are preparing to make make some Dinosaurs to stomp around our classroom this coming week.
Check out our letter "D" Blue Dog Gallery!!!


We needed some one to eat up all of the nuts our trees have been making, so we read Lois Ehlert's Nuts to You. The children made really big squirrels to sit under our trees and catch the nuts. We were talking about some of the squirrels around our school and how they like to visit the strollers parked outside of Ms. Terri's classroom window. It is a special treat when they find a granola bar inside!


We've had so many friends absent from school the past few weeks. We sang We Wish You Well
every day and send happy thoughts and warm wishes to all who were feeling under the weather.
We did our best to put any missed projects aside to do at home.

Wishing everyone a peaceful weekend.
(GO PHILLIES!)
Shabbat Shalom!

Ms. Terri and Ms. Julia