All About Me!

We have introduced our Friends Room Safe and Friendly Jar. Now that we have created and signed our classroom contract, we are adding beads to our jar when we notice friendly, safe and kind behavior. When we fill up our jar, we will be celebrating with a party!

The following songs, books and activities have been spread out amongst the AM and PM sessions.

During meeting time The Friends Room is:

Continuing our “All About Me” unit

Discussing emotions and how we express them

Exploring differences and similarities in height, skin tone, eye color, hair color and texture

During activity time The Friends Room is:

-Playing in our sand table

-Celebrating Diwali and decorating clay diyas

-Making Oobleck

-Tracing our bodies and preparing to decorate them

-Celebrating Halloween with The Rainbow Room

-Observing our faces in a mirror and drawing self-portraits

-Painting with marbles

-Using leaf stamps

-Color mixing

-Writing cards to our families for Parent Night

-Collaging vases with tissue paper for Parent Night

-Observing our features and making self-portrait collages

-Playing emotion bingo

-Talking about and drawing pictures of what make us feel happy, sad or angry

-Graphing our eye color

-Completing body part puzzles

The Friends Room has been rehearsing our favorite songs for parent night:

-Tingaleo

-Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light

-We Are The Dinosaurs

-The Itsy Bitsy and Great Big Spider

-Come on and Sing

The Friends Room is Singing:

My Body Is So Musical

Lyrics:

My body, my body, my body is so musical.

Your body, your body, your body can make music too!

My hands they like to clap, clap, clap.

My feet they like to tap, tap, tap.

My mouth likes saying la, la la.

My hips they do the cha cha cha.

My body, my body, my body is so musical.
Your body, your body, your body can make music too!

The Friends Room is reading:

Bad Dog, Marley! by John Grogan

The 3 Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone

I like Myself!  by Karen Beaumont

Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae

Ska-tat! by Kimberley Knutson

Mad At Mommy! by Komoko Sakai

Fletcher and The Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson

On Halloween Night by Harriet Ziiefert 

3 Little Pigs by Paul Galdone

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda D. Williams