Tulip Room This Week

In the tulip room we continue to celebrate holidays around the globe, visiting Sweden and making St. Lucia buns was a hit last week and making latkes, lighting the menorah, learning the dreidal song and reading Hanukkah stories this week.

We will have a christmas gift opening party Wednesday, as well as celebrate the Mexican holiday of Los Posados with a taco bar. Some mexican puppet friends, visited our classroom on friday and gave us our food assignments. If you haven’t seen these, please ask your child or check their backpack! We are doing this pitch-in style, feel free to send a snack or a lunch on Wednesday if you are concerned that your child won’t care for the food, or don’t if you know your child will be satisfied with the taco bar.

We sincerely enjoyed our caroling at the nursing home so much that we decided to carol local businesses! We found that to be a blessing to us and the businesses! In addition to our acts of giving we are hosting 3 Days of Giving. The tulip room is practicing 3 days of giving in honor of the giving season. The first day of giving we gave to those who do things for us; the library, the field, the businesses who let us trick or treat them and all those special people who come to teach us so many wonderful & interesting things. The second day involves making a gift for one of our family members and the third is a random act of kindness (which is attached). This gift is to be given to someone who won’t and/or can’t ever give anything back. Please help your child find the appropriate person or place to gift this too. This act of giving came home with your child, if you haven’t seen it yet please ask them about it, if you have any questions let us know. In a world of getting it is so wonderful and peaceful to see the children participating in the thrill of giving, their faces light up so much when they see the joy they are bringing to others.

On Wednesday the children will be bringing home their green folders which contain fun work as well as follow up work to lessons they have had, we ask that you spend some time with your child over break finishing up this work, it will keep them well practiced as  children. Thank you so much for blessing us with the honor of spending each and very day with your children, we consider it a blessing beyond any to know such wonderful people.

Have a safe and happy holiday break!

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.