Welcome to the Orange Room!

                                                                                        2023-2024


Your Teachers! 

We are all so happy to spend our day with you!

Ms. Terry, Inclusion Teacher      Miss Sheila, Paraprofessional      Miss Laurie, Paraprofessional

Miss Robin, ABA Paraprofessional  Miss Kayla, Special Education Teacher

THEME:

AUTHORS!

Featured this week: 

Dr. Seuss

FEATURED STORIES:

 The Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss' Color Book

Green Eggs and Ham

MUSIC & MOVEMENT:

Sit to Make a Lap 

(A "listen & do" song)

Week of March 11, 2024:


Hello Orange Room Families! 


What a fun week we had in the Orange Room, enjoying books by our first featured author - Dr. Seuss! 


We first had to learn what an author is, a community helper who writes books! Sometimes the author also creates the pictures, some times someone else called an illustrator does that job. This week we read Dr. Seuss' books. We learned he is very good at making stories with rhyming words. Sometimes his rhyming words are made up, some of his story characters are made up too! In the first story, the Cat in the Hat, a brother and sister are bored, sitting watching the rain while their mother is out. The Cat in the Hat comes in and craziness ensues! By the end of the story, the house is picked up and the cat has left. The last page asks if you would tell your mother about the Cat in the Hat and the mess he made. Most of our children said they would tell the truth! A few said, they'd keep it a secret! I won't say who... (wink!)


The children did a great job making their own Cat in the Hat masks! We also read the Color Book and Green Eggs and Ham. Along with our stories we played a rhyming word game, identified numbers using Seuss themed count and clip cards, measured how many blocks tall the characters are, and measured how many Seuss hats tall we are. After reading Green Eggs and Ham, the children marble painted their own green eggs and told us where they would NOT eat them. Among the replies, they would NOT eat them: at the table, on a speed boat, on a roller coaster, in the Jungle, on Halloween and in the art area. All week long the children enjoyed seeing how high they could make a hat stack! The pattern for making it stack high is an A-B pattern, like the cat's hat, however the children stacked a paper square, a red cup, a paper square, a red cup and so on. I believe the record was 10 cups high!


We all enjoyed the gorgeous warm weather! Between our groups we took advantage to either have extra outside time taking a walk, or having added recess time. We hope the weather is in our favor for our Readers' Picnics this week! There is still time to sign up and join us if you can. I have linked the flyer for you here, the sign up document was emailed home to you.


Readers' Picnic Flyer - Orange Room 


Congratualtions to all the E.C.C. students who participated in the Wachusett District Special Olympics! You are all champions in our eyes everyday!


On Monday this week, feel free to wear Green, the color of the month for us! 

Remember that Tuesday is the First Day of Spring, all students and staff are invited to dress in any way that feels springy to you - wear spring colors, flowers, clothes for spring, baseball caps, etc!



We appreciate you always!

Ms. Terry, Miss Sheila, Miss Laurie & the Orange Room Team!   




Reminders on our parking lot for best safety practices, Please:

Only park in designated parking spots.

Hold hands with children in the parking lot.

Triple check before backing out of a spot.

Do not leave your car idling.

Go slow and be aware of surroundings.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation!


Notes & Reminders:

March 18 - Dress in green if you wish!

March 19 - First day of Spring - Dress Springy!

March 21 & 22 - Orange Room Readers' Picnic

March 27 - No school, Staff PD Day

From the Community Engagement Committee: 

Home Guide for PreK Skills

A quick list of some top skills recommended by your teachers and specialists, for children

to practice/acquire by the end of the PreK experience, before entering Kindergarten. Click on "PreK Skills Quick List" for the link to the pamphlet. 

PreK Skills Quick List 


Orange Room Photo Gallery 

Log Cabin Kitchen Center

Woodland Sensory Table

Play-dough Turkey

Gingerbread Bakery!

Alphabet Tree

Holiday Art!

Doctor's Office

Waiting Room

Radiology

Auto Center

Pet Care Center

Pizza Shop

Space theme Sensory Table

Space Center and Rocket

Ice Cream Shop and Camping Center! Summer fun!

Here are some views of our new classroom furnishings, items, and set-up! We are so appreciative!

Recent Artwork

Feed The Animals

Building and fixing the tractor!

Orange Room Gallery 2023-24

Making a face with loose Parts!

Making a face with loose parts!

Another fine face!

The E.C.C. Market!

Dramatic Play Center

Fall Farm Stand

Dramatic Play Center

Spookley the Square Pumpkin

More Spookleys

Spookley is his name, square is his game!

Art Gallery: Itsy Bitsy Spider and the Three Pig's houses!

Art Gallery: Textured Bears

Pinecone painted shapes turkeys!

Featuring: our color/shapes of the month (brown square, red circle, yellow and orange triangles) as well as colorful diamonds!

Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin Plants!

We've been so excited to see the seeds we scooped out of our pumpkins, and planted in soil, growing so amazingly! The children have watered them well and have witnessed the first parts of the Life Cycle of a Pumpkin first hand! If you look closely, some leaves have the seed shell on it still, and the roots are wrapping around the cup deep under the soil! Some sprouts are just pushing through while others have stretched up to the sun quickly! I wonder if you can keep them growing at home until they become a vine!

Our new classroom set-up!

Polar Sensory Table!

Dramatic Play House with Laundry Center! Hang the Mittens from 1-10.     :)

Post Office!