This Week in the Oak Room

February is Dental Health Month. We used this opportunity to discover interesting facts about our teeth and how they grow, what can damage them and, most importantly, how to care for them. A special thank you to Dr. Goedecker, who donated tooth brushes and toothpaste for all of the kids. They were all so pleased to learn that Brady’s dad is a dentist!

We have been enjoying learning more about the weather and performed some experiments about thunder, lightening and rainbows this week. The children seem particularly interested in this topic right now. Several of our friends like to check the temperature throughout the day.

Welcome to our new friend Prajeeth! We are enjoying getting to know him!

With all of the recent precipitation we are ending up with a lot of wet socks and pants after outside time. Please take a moment to check your child’s spare clothing to make sure they have a spare pair of socks and pants. Thanks!

Please note that we will be having an open house at CGM from 2-4 pm on Saturday, March 1st. There will also be an open house on the same day at IMCS in Whiteland from 1-5 pm. Please tell your friends and co-workers about our wonderful schools and encourage them to attend!

Child quote of the week:

Arhan: “This beautiful orchestra music makes my eyes water.”

Have a great weekend, Miss Holly.

This Week in the Oak Room

What a fun week in the Oak room. We celebrated Valentine’s Day with activities, the history of the holiday, a fun party and a surprise “fancy” candle lit lunch. Thanks to all of our parents who were such a big help, as always. We all had such a good time!

We are continuing our study of the weather and will be trying some science experiments this coming week to learn about rain, thunder and rainbows.

We have begun our geography unit on Australia. This week we talked about instruments, food and lifestyles in this area of the world.

We are proud to announce a near perfect attendance for the Spring conferences last week! Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to meet with us. We enjoyed sharing the daily experiences we have with your children and bragging a little about their progress! Our class is full of such bright and caring kids!

Please note that we will be having an open house for both of our buildings in the first weekend of March. Please tell friends and co-workers about our wonderful schools and encourage them to attend!

Child quote of the week:

Miss Holly (during circle): “How do you think the celebrating of Valentine’s Day started?”

Dean: “Not good.”

Have a great weekend, Miss Holly.

This Week in the Oak Room

We are happy to report that the Oak room is healthy again. We recently had fevers and colds run their course, but we all seem to be on the mend! We have used this opportunity to remind the children of the importance of hand washing. We are encouraging the kids to wash (with soap) for the duration of the “abc song” or “Happy Birthday.”

What a winter we are having! This frigid and snowy season has given us the ideal opportunity to start talking about weather. We are implementing our daily weather tracking chart and learning about predictions, clouds and the weather changes that occur with each season.

We have enjoyed learning all about Antarctica in the Oak room, but are ready to travel to another continent. Our next area of study in geography and culture will be about the continent of Australia. If any of our families have artifacts from this region of the world and would like to share, we would love to see them!

Happy Birthday to our friend Andrew! He is 4!

There are still available openings for conferences next week if you haven’t already signed up! Please remember that we do have before and after care available for our students during our conference times. We are looking forward to meeting with our Oak room families to discuss their students’ progress.

Valentine’s Day is next week! We are looking forward to our class party on Thursday, Feb. 13th. Children who choose to bring in valentine cards for their friends will need to bring in enough for 21 students please. As usual, our party will take place at 2:30 that afternoon and parents are always welcome!

Child quote of the week:

Grant: “Meanie, meanie, minie, mo. If I pick you, you get to wear my star wars pajamas.” (Sadly, Miss Darci and I were not chosen.)

Have a great weekend, Miss Holly.

This Week in the Oak Room

Wow is it cold. I hope all of our families are staying warm and safe during these frigid winter conditions. However, the weather was quite appropriate for learning all about Antarctica and its inhabitants.

For our science lessons we have been learning about different classes of vertebrates, and where humans fall into this list. We discovered that we are in the mammal class and have been exploring the “bones” of the human body. We will continue with the human body unit and soon learn all about our organs and other body systems.

Thanks to our friends and families who attended the open house at the new school in Whiteland. We are all very excited about this new addition and appreciate your support!

Conferences will be here before we know it! You will be able to sign up soon at Brenda’s front desk. We always enjoy discussing the progress of your children and look forward to the opportunity to touch base with our CGM families. Sign up early to get the spot that best fits into your schedule!

Ever wonder why your child is spending so much time pouring, stringing beads and sweeping the floor at school? Well, our Practical Life walk thru on Monday, January 27th is your opportunity to find out just how important this area of the classroom and curriculum are to future success in language, math and overall self confidence. I hope you will join us for this enlightening exploration and discussion!

Child quote of the week:

Collin: “I’m going to sit and do my job but I am never ever never doing it.”

Have a great weekend, Miss Holly.

May the celebrating continue.  This week in the Oak Room we traveled to Sweden to learn about the European holiday of St. Lucia’s Day!  The children made star and candle headbands and enjoyed a presentation by our own Miss Kristen all about this special day.  She also helped us make some delicious St. Lucia rolls!

The children in Sweden also like to make gingerbread treats for this holiday, so we took the opportunity to make our own gingerbread boys and girls  as well as a fun gingerbread boy craft to go along with the traditional gingerbread man story!

We will be spending our last week before break talking about the Christmas season and what it means to give to others and this important time with our families.  Our class party will take place on Thursday afternoon.  If your child would like to bring in a class gift, we will be having them open those at our first circle and putting them with any other “donations.” This is an excellent opportunity for us to teach the children the joy of giving something without having to get something in return.

The children will also be getting their classroom cleaned up before the break. This includes cubbies!  Please check on Friday to make sure that all items except changes of clothing and nap packs are taken out of the cubbies so that they may be cleaned over the break. Thanks for the help!