Thursday, April 14, 2011

Spring Has Sprung!

Before we show you all that we have done this week, we want to remind you of the Children's Fair being held on Saturday from 9:30-11:30am. The location has changed to the Elementary School Gym. Please enter through Door H (the door behind the school near the gym area).

There will be many activities, visits from special characters, and informational booths. There are several make and takes and promotional items that have been donated by many generous area businesses. If you want to participate in the bike rodeo, don’t forget your bike & helmet!

Now on to our week...on Monday we drew pictures in our "Person Book". Only two more illustrations to go and then the books will be bound for you to enjoy an entire school year's worth of progress.

Our dramatic play area is set up with a spring flower garden and we have our baby picture match up game featuring flowers as well.

Dramatic Play Center with a Spring Theme
 

 
Matching the Baby Flowers to the Big Kid Stems

On Tuesday we made kites using contact, tissue, and crepe paper. They are decorating our windows as sun catchers.


Wednesday's project was scheduled to be umbrellas, but we decided to multi-task and use the umbrellas to decorate our class bulletin board. You may have noticed that we did not send home a project at the beginning of the month due to spring break. We will be needing your participation once again in May but we hope you enjoyed the break this month.

It's raining, it's pouring, our 4K skills are soaring!!!!

Morning Class Close-up #1
Morning Class Close-up #2
Afternoon Class Close-up #1
Afternoon Class Close-up #2
Thursday we talked about robins and made our own robin in a nest with eggs. We used a lot of skills including, cutting, folding, gluing, coloring, writing and the most fun of all...we rolled marbles covered in paint to decorate our robin's eggs!!! What fun!
Rolling a marble around to decorate the eggs.
A view of a finished project

We had a great week and especially liked the warmer days. It looks like we may be in for more cold weather though so please keep on sending appropriate outerwear for the changing weather. Thank you and have a great weekend!!!

Are they  future engineers? They regularly construct things here at the Lego table.