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

Week of 4/8/2024:

Hello Orange Room Families! 

I hope this update finds you all well and enjoying the vacation week! We've had such beautiful days so far. Of course some April showers are needed to bring on the May flowers!

In our week before the break, we focused our Spring theme on aspects of the weather. We read the book, "It looked Like Spilt Milk" and made symmetrical blot painting clouds and used our imaginations to identify what the cloud looked like. Among the paintings we saw: a lady in a dress, a butterfly, a spider, two unicorns, a snow storm, and a cloud...just a cloud! We also created cool reverse print paintings, drawing our designs into purple paint on the bottom of a metal tray and pressed onto the paper so we could use this as the tube for our wind socks. We experimented with which way the streamers would fly according to the direction of the wind. We had wind sock races outside in the field, and when weather was not in our favor, down the hallway outside our classroom. 

We finished the week learning about the solar eclipse with video song/story. We used a big yellow ball, and playdough representations of the moon and earth to replicate how the earth orbits the sun, and the moon orbits the earth. A flashlight helped us see how the sun's light shines on one side of the earth creating day, with night on the opposite side. When the moon passed between the sun and earth it cast a moon shadow on the earth! Our students created their representation of the solar eclipse process. 

All week we continued to place our color coded cards on our calendar to represent the type of weather each day. You may have found the "homework" sheet in your child's backpack to color a block for each day of the week. We will use these to add our weather cards to the calendar when we return, so we have a complete month of weather to graph. 

An exciting happening to share from this week, one of our students found a baby turtle in our courtyard playground! We placed it in a container with a little water, watched it crawl and swim! After sharing a peak of the turtle throughout the other classes of the school, we released it by the lake so it could find it's Mom and family!

Our Spring theme will continue when we return through the last week of April. Then can you believe it - MAY! This year is flying by!

Thank you for all you do!

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

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 

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