Winter Week - Newsletter

A Letter from the Teacher

Welcome back! I hope you all enjoyed your holidays as much as I did! It’s good to feel rested! I loved seeing the snow come down on Christmas day! With winter in full swing we’ll have fun learning about it this week. Who knows, maybe we’ll even get some more snow this week. What perfect timing that would be!

There’s a couple of things we could use your help with over the next couple of weeks. We could use old coffee grinds for our sensory table. If you stop by Starbucks on a regular basis, would you mind asking if you can have any old grinds they still have? They will often save them for you if you ask.

Also, does anybody have any scrapbooking punches that are basic shapes? We need lots of little shapes for a project we’re doing the last week of January, and I don’t want to cut them. :-) So if anybody has any punches and wouldn’t mind either making us a bunch or letting us borrow them, please let me know. We need circles, squares, triangles, etc…

Happy New Year!
-Teacher April

This Week in the Sunshine Class

Learning about winter seems to be one of the annual favorites around here.
One favorite game is always the snowball fight. We crumble up paper and pretend it’s snow and have a snowball fight in our classroom. It’s pretty silly.

Teacher Denise picked up a bunch of fake snow for us to enjoy in our sensory table. I’m imagining that will make quite the mess! :-)

We have some mitten games that involve matching letters and patterning.

We’ll be learning a little about the states of water as we see what happens when it freezes and then warms up again.

The boys in our class LOVE cars so much...actually the girls enjoy them too...so I’ve got a new activity planned that I think they’re really going to like. We’ll be spreading shaving cream all over the table and they’ll get cars to drive around in it, like driving in snow. They’ll do this with white paint on paper too.

We’ll learn some things about owls when we read “Owl Moon” and we’ll play a silly penguin color matching game and sing a song about penguins...since they live in the snow. :-)

I think I’m going to send home a little worksheet about ice melting. It says to just ask about it (like we did it at school), but we won’t do it, I’ll send it so you can do it at home if you want.