This Week in the Tulip Room

The “bill” simulation this week was a hit! The children were able to pass several bills, a

few died in the house and others were vetoed by the president. It was so fun, they didn’t

want to stop.

With the winter holidays we begin our series on letter writing with a letter to Santa, then

friendly letters and as is often the follow up, a letter to someone you admire, often being

persons of fame with a request for an autograph, it was letter writing palooza this week!

Beginning our December holiday season was St. Nicolas day, we were lucky enough to

take a “trip” to Brussels with a real Belgian tour guide. We learned about some

landmarks, food, language and culture. We also made Belgian waffles and celebrated

St. Nicolas day as the Belgian elementary children would by having a party with board

games.

In the following weeks we will explore the holidays of Los Posadas, Hanukkah &

Christmas.

LOTS OF CALENDAR Reminders

For the next few weeks we will continue our emphasis on thankfulness and giving to

others. We will be collecting new mittens and gloves to donate to a local charity. Our

elementary class is challenging the school to bring in as many gloves as we did food

items! This amounts to 265 gloves or 5 gloves per student! Wow! We are aware that we

might not make this goal but if we challenge ourselves great things are possible! As of

today the count is 85 pairs of gloves! WOW!

On Friday, December 14th the Tulip room will be visiting Greenwood Villages South and

caroling the residents and delivering ornaments that have been made by extended care.

We will need a couple of chaperones/drivers but all parents are welcome to come. We

will have a rehearsal performance on December 12th at school, performing for the

primary room.

We will also be taking a field trip to the Scottish Rite Cathedral to see The Nutcracker

December 21st at 7:30 p.m. The school will cover the cost of the ticket for your

elementary child and you may purchase additional tickets at $12 each for you, yourself,

friends or family members. These tickets do need to be ordered in advanced and can be

done so with Ms. Brenda and must be done by December the 7th (please RSVP your

student by then as well). We are very excited for this opportunity!

During this season of giving we wish to request that in lieu of holiday gifts for the

teachers we ask that anyone interested in purchasing a gift, focus on gifts for the

classroom!

Our classroom could use:

Gift cards/certificates to

Jo-Ann fabrics

United Art & Education

Teachers pay teachers (website)

The Container Store

Ikea

We could always use these supplies as well:

Erasers

Pencils

Loose leaf paper

Construction paper

Colored pencils

Dry erase markers

Scissors

Cotton yarn

Crochet needles (g or h)

Latch hooking set

Fabric scraps

Ribbon

Poster board (medium sized)

Mark your calendars now! A Walk through math presentation will be held on january

24th at 6:30 pm put this one your calendars now, its a chance to see how your children

use the different math materials!

The children are lucky to have materials that have multi uses and can cross over during

their years in different aged classroom. How nice it is to see them seek out these

familiar materials in their first few months in the elementary classroom and begin to see

how these materials have even more new & exciting things to be discovered in them.

Such is the case with the constructive triangle boxes. The children learn beginning and

advanced shape names, explore congruencies and later the Pythagorean theorem with

these boxes. Ask your child about the triangle box, hexagon boxes and rectangle boxes.

 

This Week in the Tulip Room

With the election and our presidential studies we are now on the midst of a study of the US government. With our special studies, it is always exciting to do a “simulation”, so each of your children has been elected or appointed to a branch of government and a position in that branch, next they will work on passing a bill through the three houses. Watch for governments of the world studies to come next!

With our interesting art project that went amiss we want to remind everyone to send your child in play clothes everyday. While we learned something from this experience and stains are something we are better prepared to prevent, we also have noticed some children having difficulty during outside and P.E. time and don’t want anyone to get hurt.

LOTS OF CALENDAR NOTES

For the next few weeks we will continue our emphasis on thankfulness and giving to others. We will be collecting new mittens and gloves to donate to a local charity. Our elementary class is challenging the school to bring in as many gloves as we did food items! This amounts to 265 gloves or 5 gloves per student! Wow! We are aware that we might not make this goal but if we challenge ourselves great things are possible!

On Friday, December 14th the Tulip room will be visiting Greenwood Villages South and caroling the residents and delivering ornaments that have been made by extended care. We will need a couple of chaperones/drivers but all parents are welcome to come. We will have a rehearsal performance on December 12th at school, performing for the primary room.

We will also be taking a field trip to the Scottish Rite Cathedral to see The Nutcracker December 21st at 7:30 p.m. The school will cover the cost of the ticket for your elementary child and you may purchase additional tickets at $12 each for you, yourself, friends or family members. These tickets do need to be ordered in advanced and can be done so with Ms. Brenda and must be done by December the 7th (please RSVP your student by then as well). We are very excited for this opportunity!

During this season of giving we wish to request that in lieu of holiday gifts for the teachers we ask that anyone interested in purchasing a gift, focus on gifts for the classroom! Look for a wish list to be posted soon!

Mark your calendars now! A Walk through math presentation will be held on January 24th at 6:30 pm put this one your calendars now, its a chance to see how your children use the different math materials!

A very popular material lately has been our word study towers! In these towers the children work with compound words, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homonyms, capitalization, punctuation, alphabetical order and much more! Ask your child about the towers (they might also call them drawers and tell you they are on g6) :).

Recipes

Hello!

The children in the elementary classroom have been gathering recipes that contain vegetables we have been working with, and have gathered some interesting and delicious ideas. We are organizing these into a recipe book that you may purchase as holiday gifts.

As we are getting these ready we have noticed that a few children have only one or no recipes. If you haven’t done this with your child please gather recipes by Friday, November 30th in order for them to be included in the book. Our recipes were in the following categories: broccoli, squash and apple. Thanks so much!