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Red Room News - September 21, 2007
We have had an exciting week of color exploration. We focused on Green as we completed our Big Green Monsters and acted out a new poem, “Five Little Speckled Frogs”. We painted with unusual materials this week. We used shaving cream and paint to make our green headbands. We used colored glue to create “magic dots” of glue on a strip of paper. In Spanish, we created our Rainbow Smoothies, or should I say, “zalamero de arco iris”, using fruits and juice inspired by the colors of the rainbow. Delicious! We even squeezed our own orange juice. Look for your Big Green Monster; it’s coming home today.
Our work this week also involved a lot of planting. Heidi_Bradbury brought us a very large outdoor bird cage for Joey and enough food and toys to keep him occupied for quite some time. Thank you Heidi! But that is not all; she also brought in numerous plants and shrubs to create this beautiful environment as well. We scrubbed and cleaned the birdcage, planted flowers, and helped set up this wonderful outdoor space. Change can be traumatic for birds so we have not introduced Rootbeer to the outside cage. Joey appeared nervous at first, completely rejecting the cage the second day but now he can be heard whistling and squawking as far off as the parking lot. Rootbeer is doing fine, by the way and has been seen napping when Joey is outside. She seems full of energy and willing to eat. The blood clot on her beak actually seems to be drying up. We spend our day caring for the birds and watching them care for each other. It really is touching to watch Joey clean Rootbeer’s beak and head and, then, cuddle her with his head. Yesterday, we gave Joey a shower with a spray bottle in his outside cage; he just loved it! It was exciting for the children to watch him spread his wings and all but ask for more. Heidi, thank you for helping to make this time exciting for all.
Your child is bringing home his/her collage work today as well as the first still life project of the year. We will continue to work at observation skills and recreating what we see. The process of observation: examining details, reflecting on them, and duplicating them, is quite useful in many aspects of our school work and, quite frankly, our lives.
Tonight at 5:30, providing there is no rain, we will meet at Soule
Please see the attached flyer about the Fiesta! It is fast approaching so please turn in your ticket orders and sign up to work a shift, if you haven’t already done so. The Fiesta is quite magical and your child will be surprised to arrive and see the playground transformed with a carnival atmosphere. Dinner by Jim & Rob’s, country store, climbing walls, petting zoo, horse and buggy ride……… Next week the color is Purple!
Fondly, Mrs.Smith
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