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: 

Laura Numeroff

FEATURED STORIES:

 The Itsy Bitsy Leprechaun

How to Trap a Leprechaun

Welcome Spring

If You Give a Dog a Donut

MUSIC & MOVEMENT:

St. Patrick's Dance Move & Freeze

Color Me Spring

W, 2024:


Hello Orange Room Families! 


We had so much to do and explore in the Orange Room this week! We engaged in, and explored, some fun activities associated with the recent holiday, the official First Day of Spring, and our next featured author - Laura Numeroff!  


We began our week learning about what a "legend" is. We described a legend for the children, as a traditional story that may or may not be true. We spoke about the legend of leprechauns. We hear about them the most during the holiday called St. Patrick's Day, and supposedly leprechauns are magical little elves who are sneaky and love to find and steal treasure! They believe there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and are always busy searching for the pot of gold! Our morning students enjoyed the story, "The Itsy Bitsy Leprechaun" and our afternoon students enjoyed "How to Trap a Leprechaun"! We made rainbows cascading from golden clouds and rainbows with a pot of gold at the end. We explored colors and color mixing to create new colors in our discovery area. We played a game in which he hid 20 numbered cards with a pattern of shamrock and cold coin images on them all around the classroom. The children had to find them all! For one class, we just could not find number 15, we thought maybe a leprechaun took it! We also played a game in which a pot of gold was hidden under alphabet labelled rainbow cards. The children had to choose a letter and see if the pot of gold was under the rainbow!


We continue to explore all our preschool readiness skills through our various hands on, learning and learn through play activites. All our students in both groups are doing so well with recognizing their name in print, identifying their name by first letter and letter sound, as well as spelling their name. For our younger students, we focus on constant and ongoing exposure and identification. For our older pre-k students we are also practicing building and writing letters, practicing writing our name, identifying things that start with the letter sound and understanding rhyming words. All the children at this point are doing well, if not quite strong in number sense, recognizing shapes and colors, and patterns! Kudos to you all!


We enjoyed the song "Color Me Spring" and read the story "When Spring Comes" to celebrate the official first day of spring! Spring is kind of like a baby learning to walk, the bay wants to walk but can some times stumbles and falls when they take their first steps. Spring wants to be warm and bloom everything in nature but it just doesn't "know how to do it right yet"! We noticed how the days can feel warm and lovely, cold and windy, rainy and even snowy! We'll be tracking the weather in the days to come!


We began reading a story by our next featured author, Laura Numeroff. She is known for her chain reaction series of stories. our first was "If You give a Dog a Donut". We sang the donut shop song while we chose and identified the many colored donuts. Our most fun this week was having our community reader volunteers join us for the Readers' Picnics! Thank you so much for coming to read to our children! We laid our our blankets in the room. Each picnic basket held stories by our featured authors. It was so much fun, I would like to do this again sometime in the spring. If you did not have the availability this time around, we can plan another time to do so again!


Quick reminder: Wednesday March 27, is a half day in service for staff. There will be no student classes this coming Wednesday. 



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 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!

Spring is in the AIR!