Earth Day in the Triangle Room

Dear Triangle Room Families,

     

First, it was our pleasure to have Miss Denise join us in the Triangle Room.  She is a great addition to our class, is enjoying getting to know the children and is already busily planning her week to teach!

   Our learning activities last week centered on Earth Day and taking care of the Earth.

We read the following books:

   

     * This is Our Earth

     * Earth Day

     * Why Should I Recycle?

     * The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle

     * Children of the Earth Remember

     * The Lorax

     * Junk Yard

   Our many Earth art activities included: hand print Earths, coffee filter Earths created with markers and water spray, marble-painting Earths, and  Q-tip painting!  The sensory table had sand and toy endangered animals.  We learned about the recycling symbol and practiced the 3 R's-- Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!  During choice time, the students could sort recycling materials,  fish in a polluted pond (catching litter along with their fish),

or make patterns with pictures of the Earth and the recycling symbol.

   On Thursday, we played Environmental BINGO!  We used plastic bottle caps to cover nature and recycling related pictures! We ended our day with singing "Happy Earth Day to you".

    The children also worked on a few sweet surprises (don't ask 😊!) for our Mother Appreciation Tea this Thursday!

We hope you will be able to join us on Thursday from 11:10-12:00!

Miss Diann

mud & worms & clouds & rainbows

It was a great week in the Triangle Room! We enjoyed the sunshine and beautiful weather. We also had fun learning about more spring themes- robins, clouds, rainbows, and worms.

Books read together this week:

• Mud!
• A Mud Pie for Mother
• Mrs. Wishy Washy
• Rainbows
• Worm Weather
• Clouds
• Little Cloud
• The Rainy Day
• A Nest Full of Eggs

Favorite activities this week: 

• After learning about the three types of clouds, students created clouds with a mixture of shaving cream and white paint. We compared our clouds in style to the illustrations done by Eric Carle in the book Little Cloud.
• After reading Worm Weather, students painted "mud" (brown paint and oatmeal) thickly on to a piece of paper and added worms (rubber bands). 
• Students had the chance to play with water in the sensory table. They especially enjoyed pouring the water through colanders and from pitcher to pitcher. 
• We observed and held worms.
• We created nests for robins after reading A Nest Full of Eggs. We used a variety of materials just as a robin would when building her nest. 
• After learning that rain occurs when a could is full of water, we enjoyed squeezing the water out of cotton ball clouds with tongs. (Great for strengthening our fine motor skills and lots of fun too!
• We had a shared writing chart of our observations about worms.
• We continued to enjoy a market in our dramatic play area. 
• We learned all about airplanes in science class. 

• We charted together words that start with W and practiced making the letter W in the air.
• Students created rainbow mini books.
• We all enjoyed a puddle flannel board rhyme that helped us to practice counting backwards.
• We stamped our names with ink and alphabet stamps.

Spring Weather in the Triangle Room

Although the weather outside last week in St. Louis did not feel like spring weather, we enjoyed having fun in the Triangle Room learning more about spring weather.

While discussing wind, the students made predictions about which objects could be moved with air. 

painting clouds with shaving cream and white paint-
we loved the texture created with this mixture!

One of the art choices during free time was a rainbow collage made with tissue paper squares. 

It makes me happy to see the students choosing to spend time in the writing center during free choice time!

Water, pitchers, and eye droppers in the sensory table were great fun. 

Umbrellas decorated with assorted art materials surrounded by rain created with blue paint and Q tips.

using eye droppers to create falling rain

Our dramatic play area was a market this week. 

Watercolor paint is always a popular choice during table time. 

We enjoyed moving around the room like raindrops to the sounds of rain playing on a CD.