This Week in the Tulip Room
- At December 07, 2012
- By CGMontessori
- In Tulip Room
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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.