Ponds, Meadows & More

This week we learned about animals that live in ponds and meadows. On Monday we watercolor painted a pond. Watercoloring is a soothing activity for kids this age, so if you are looking for a quiet, creative outlet when your little one is getting rambunctious, you might want to pull out the watercolor paints.  

 

Tuesday was our final trip up to Community Elementary for Star Literacy testing. Once again, we had model students who walked quietly through the halls so as not to disturb the big kids. We are so proud!! 

We made an accordion book about frogs on Wednesday. Be sure to ask your child to explain the life cycle of a frog to you.

Thursday we used our fine motor skills to tear paper to make a turtle. There were a lot of steps to this project, including cutting, tearing and gluing.

Remember there is NO SCHOOL on Monday due to the Memorial Day Holiday. We will see you on Tuesday for the start of Ocean Week.

Also, we have a number of things due on Tuesday, including any payment for or unwanted spring/graduation pictures and contact list update forms. We also need the graduation "count" sheets that were included in your child's red folder this week.

A Camping We Will Go!

We really enjoyed our camping unit this week! We had a real tent in our classroom, along with camp chairs and a campfire tripod complete with s'mores!

Speaking of s'mores we made some to decorate our classroom.

We also made our own fishing poles complete with a nice catch. We have a "pond" in our dramatic play area where we can practice our casting & reeling.

What a catch!

We wrapped up our week with our visit to 5K and a tour of Community Elementary School. We saw a 5K classroom,  the office area, art room, music room. lunch room, gym and playground.

Visiting the Music Room

Zoo Photos Finally Posted

AM Class Photos


PM Class Photos

Fractured Fairy Tales

This week we talked about fairy tales and heard some different versions of the stories. It was fun to talk about what was the same as what we are used to and what was different in each of the new story versions.

On Monday, we read the Three Billy Goats Gruff and we made a goat paper bag puppet. We also read Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook, where the storybook characters came to life!

Tuesday we read Cinderella and then a funny, opposite version called Big Foot Cinderrrrrella. We got to choose which shoe we wanted to make...a glass slipper or a bark clog. We used colored pencils and added stickers or popsicles sticks to our shoes.

Wednesday was a great weather day and we hope you got to enjoy it on your day off!

Little Red Riding Hood was our focus on Thursday. We enjoyed the Little Critter version of Little Red Riding Hood, followed by a darker, Chinese version of the story called LonPoPo. We used markers to color a character from the Red Riding Hood Story and got the choice of making it into a headband or mask to reenact the story.

Friday we wrapped up our week of silly fairy tales with Big Bad Wolf is Good and Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book. Mrs. Crandall's family loves the Big Bad Book and other books by Lauren Child...check them out at the library! We worked on another page for our person book and finished up our Mother's Day projects.

Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms! We hope you are treated like royalty this weekend!!