Snowflakes, Hot Chocolate and Pajama Day, Trees!

Since the weather has been changing and it's been very cold outside lately, we decided to make snowflakes! Thank you, preschool, for helping us prep our snowflakes by gluing together popsicle sticks as our first step! After we let the glue dry overnight, we got our paintbrushes and painted our snowflakes blue! What kind of snowflakes would they be without some sparkle? We also added some glitter, which is one of our favorite things in Rose Room :) The kids did a great job by really taking their time and painting on the popsicle stick!


































Pajama Day is always a very fun day for all of the kids! Getting right out of bed and coming to school in your pajamas is so awesome! The weather couldn't have been better for our hot chocolate and pajamas! It was wet and rainy and we all enjoyed our hot chocolate very much! We even got to do some face painting, which the kids had a lot of fun with! Everyone looked really cute and we sang and danced to "Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer."






















Christmas is right around the corner so we did an art project with trees! The kids got to glue sequins and pom pom balls onto their trees! Glue is a big hit in our classroom. The kids have more fun just putting glue onto their trees than decorating them with anything else :) We have so much fun watching the kids get so creative with their projects and watching them so excited to take their art projects home or looking at them displayed in the classroom!













Thanks for sharing your beautiful children with us each day :)
Love, Rose Room

Thanksgiving Feast!

Rose Room celebrated Thanksgiving this year with our annual thankful feast! This year we celebrated a little bit different, having pizza and veggies instead of turkey. The kids LOVED the pizza so much, they even asked for seconds and thirds :) Thank you to all our wonderful parents for coming and helping out that day we really appreciated it! Some of our moms even brought dessert which was very yummy :)



















Celebrated S's birthday at our thankful feast! Happy Birthday S we love you very much!







Getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families we read the book "Thankful for Thanksgiving." We even asked the kids what they were thankful for and the answers were adorable:

SR: "C."
AM: "Babies."
AK: "Water."
AR: "Dancing."
MM: "Cars."
IV: "My birthday."
A: "Sandbox."
CK: "Mommy."

If you haven't seen our thankful tree make sure you look at it in our classroom!


We hope all of our families had a very nice Thanksgiving holiday!
Love, Rose Room

Fire Truck, Pumpkins!!

This month we had the fire department come and visit us! (It was a planned visit, no worries...) The kids are always thrilled when that happens. Their faces light up as soon as they see the fire truck pull up!

They each got to go inside the firetruck. They were so happy to be inside that some of them even cried when we had to take them out. Thank you fire fighters for coming and visiting our school. We hope to see you visit again soon!












































The preschool classes got to go on an awesome field trip to the pumpkin patch in October! They all had so much fun on their field trip that they even brought back pumpkins for the Rose Room :) The Rose Room kids were very excited to see all the pumpkins arriving, and we let each of our kiddos choose their very own pumpkin to take home! We're bringing the pumpkin patch to Creative Minds :)

After choosing their very own pumpkin, we let the kids decorate them! Using glue and all sorts of colored glitter, they all had so much fun and the pumpkins look beautiful!



































Continuing on with our interest in pumpkins, we then made paper plate pumpkins! We looked at the shape of the pumpkins in our room and saw that it was nearly a circle, so we made some orange circles of our own. The kids got a paper plate and painted orange paint all over the plate. They also added some white glitter to make the pumpkin sparkle, just like their real ones! We also added a stem on top of the plate just like a real pumpkin has. Any time the Rose Room has a painting project going on, the kids are always very excited to jump right in and get to work :)


































Another favorite pumpkin tie-in this month was reading the book "Spookley the Square Pumpkin." The children enjoyed listening to the book on CD almost every day, then making their own square pumpkins out of boxes. Who knew you could do so much with a simple vegetable?



Happy Fall!
Love,
Rose Room

Jello fun, Cars!!

Our kids in Rose Room enjoy baking and cooking projects! We made Jello this time and let it sit in the refrigerator overnight, and ate the yummy Jello the next day! It was fun for the kids to practice stirring the Jello mixture and water together and practicing not going too fast and spilling the mixture out of the bowl! The kids did a great job and enjoyed the delicious treat :)











































Rose Room has been very interested in transportation lately! The kids can't get enough of Lightning McQueen :) We decided to go along with this theme and have been doing lots of cool transportation activities lately! Since the weather has been so beautiful the last couple of weeks, we have been bringing activities outside! We brought out our basket full of cars, some shaving cream, and a piece of long butcher paper and let the kids have a blast!











































Another fun project that we did with the kids was letting them make their very own paper plate car! The kids first put glue onto the paper plate, added some tissue paper, and then put two black wheels onto their car! The kids really took their time gluing pieces onto their paper plate car and they all turned out so cute!

























Love,
Rose Room