Monica Ros School

November 26, 2007

Dear Blue Roomer,

We have homework!

This week we are studying maps and learning to make and read them. Please draw a map of your bedroom. You can draw the shape of your bedroom, draw in the windows and doors and then add your furniture and anything else you think is important. Please bring your bedroom map back to school anytime this week. It is okay if your parents help you.

Camping and stars make us think of camping out. We thought it would be fun to “camp out” during the school day on Thursday and Friday this week. That means you get to wear your pajamas to school those days. Don’t forget!

Love, Mrs. Klimbal and Mrs. Luboff

P.S. Dear Parents, We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We are enjoying your children so much we thought we would write our “newsletter” to them this week. Today we had so much fun going on a “Treasure Hunt” using a map of the school to find our snack! Ask your child about it. Hope you have fun helping them draw their map.

January 5, 2007

Blue Room News

Dear Blue Room Parents,

Happy New Year!  It was fun to see all the children’s eager, smiling faces as they arrived back to school. They all had stories to tell about their holiday adventures. Be sure to look at our “Journal Page” Bulletin board in the front room and see what all the children said about their two weeks away from school. 

The trains, cars and blocks have been so popular with our class this year that we are going to explore transportation for the next month or so. We will sing transportation songs, read a lot of books about cars, trains, planes and more, build car roads and train tracks, we will learn more about maps and how they relate to transportation, we will do some graphing and estimating and best of all; the children will do what they love best, play with cars, trains and each other. 

January is Arts Month at Monica Ros School. In keeping with our Greek theme we are going to make Greek helmets out of gallon milk jugs. Each Blue Room child will have their masterpiece displayed at the Monica Ros School Art Gallery Wednesday and Thursday, January 31^st and February 1^st in Meyer Hall. The art gallery is held in conjunction with Founder’s Day on January 31^st. 

In the morning, prior to the Founder’s Day celebration there is a special opportunity for parents interested in our Kindergarten program to visit the Kindergarten classroom and meet the teachers at 9:00 a.m. on the 31^st. 

SPECIAL REQUEST: Please bring in an empty plastic gallon milk jug for your child’s art project in the next week if possible. We could use a couple extras also just in case a family doesn’t use plastic milk jugs. Thank You! Reminder: We have no school Monday, January 15^th in honor of Martin Luther King. 

With Best Wishes for a wonderful 2007! 

Love,  Mrs. Luboff and Mrs. Weston 

Twinkle, Twinkle Traffic Light 

Twinkle, Twinkle Traffic Light 
Standing on the Corner Bright 
Green means GO, we all know 
Yellow means WAIT, even if you’re late 
Red means STOP…… 
Twinkle, Twinkle Traffic Light, 
Standing on the Corner bright