Moments in Learning

Here it is: Room4-Welcome_Newsletter-Spring2014- FINAL

Enjoy!

The structures project is still underway in Room 4.  The children are now starting to think about buildings in a city, town, or neighborhood.  To learn more about the beginning of this phase of the project, please check out this blog post about Roberto the Insect Architect.

So that the children can learn more about the structures and places in their neighborhood in a hands-on and real-life way, we are asking families to help their children complete a “Passport” of sorts over the break.  In the passport, children will get to check off the places they have visited or seen during break.  They can also add drawings, photos, and descriptions of these places.  Here’s our passport booklet:

Room 4 Passport Project

We cannot wait to see what the children and families do with the passport!  We hope they add additional pages, too.  We are on break from December 16th through January 13th.

In addition to “Bring Your Own Breakfast” week, we will have the following activities throughout the week:

Teacher Planning Document December 9

Bring Your Own Breakfast Days

Check out the above link for our flyer about “Bring Your Own Breakfast Week!”

Yesterday and today, the children have been prompted to think about structures in a new way.  The structures project has been going on all semester and the children are still building away.  However, this week the children heard the book called Roberto the Insect Architect by Nina Laden.  Afterwards, the children were provided a table and scrap wood so they could work on making a neighborhood or city just like Roberto made.

The children were told that they would first just work on the wood scraps for at least a few days.  The teachers want to take photos of the cities they make and use those to help plan together what the city will look like.  Once they practice and try different ideas, the city can be glued together and made into a more permanent structure.  We imagine that this may be something they work on even when we return in January.

Here are some images of what happened today: