Some of the cast from The Sound of Music visited the Lower Division Morning Meeting on Monday. We listened to one of the songs from the show!!
After a quick snack, we listened to some delightful blue grass music. The Fantastic Fish have a natural sense of rhythm and they could be observed tapping their knees and clapping their hands! This lively music was enjoyed by all!
This student brought a grasshopper for sharing!
We decorated napkins for our trashless lunch on Tuesday, 4/24 using insect stampers and paint.
We decorated napkins for our trashless lunch on Tuesday, 4/24 using insect stampers and paint.
We celebrated a 4th birthday by sharing the birthday book and eating a healthy snack!!
We listened to two story tellers on Wednesday who used Spanish and humor to tell their stories!
CATERPILLAR UPDATE: We have had 3 caterpillars disappear from the classroom plants. Have they been eaten by an insect or a lizard? What do you think? One caterpillar was in the process of spinning the thread to attach to a leaf and it never developed. We were lucky enough to observe the emerging butterfly from the transparent chrysalis in Mrs. Mundell's classroom one day at lunch time!!
After seeing the butterfly chrysalis in Mrs. Mundell's class, the children placed their pompom caterpillar inside a TP tube and wrapped yarn around to create a chrysalis. We will place these back on our classroom tree.
The children have been working very hard to create surprises for you for Parents' Day!!
One of our favorite manipulatives is the gears set, which gives the children an opportunity to mesh the gears together and shows them how one interlocks into the next and moves it.
One of our favorite manipulatives is the gears set, which gives the children an opportunity to mesh the gears together and shows them how one interlocks into the next and moves it.
On Friday, we went to two mini-sessions with Mrs. Mundell's class. The first was with Ms. Colleen who gave us scarves to dance to music with, and played musical instruments with, and pretended to be a variety of animals!
Next, we pretended to be actors with Ms. Katie and "drove" cars, molded imaginary clay into something, and traveled to Alaska and back!
The children sang to the EC and LD parents and we all enjoyed a picnic lunch!!
DATES TO REMEMBER:
Tuesday 4/24 TRASHLESS LUNCH - please send all lunch items in containers. Caprisun drinks are fine because we recycle these pouches. If you order a school lunch, please send in a plastic plate, fork, and spoon. We will use the cloth napkins that the children decorated.
April 25 - Field trip to Dr. Levitt's Dental office
April
27 - Parents Day - Student Activity Center - 8:30. We will be done
with festivities in the classroom by approximately 9:30 and we will
have a mini-exploring after some time on the playground at
approximately 10:30!
May 10 - Field Trip to the St. Pete Pier Aquarium
May - 25 - End of the Year Party - Exploring Schedule - 9:00 playground - 10:00 Party
May 30 - Last Day of School - Noon Dismissal
