Week of May 21

Well, we have made it to the end of the alphabet. Today we learn about the letter Z. The children have been very excited about getting to the end!! Here is our tentative schedule for the week: Monday, letter Z, including dot paint activity. Wednesday: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The caterpillars have arrived and have made their home in Ms. kristy's room. We will watch them grow and change into butterflies over the next couple of weeks. We will learn the caterpillar life cycle. Butterflies will be a theme over the next few weeks as we wait for our painted lady butterflies to emerge. Friday: end of alphabet celebration. I would like to have a small celebration on Friday for reaching the end of the alphabet. If you would like to donate an item, please let me know. Specifically, I would like Alphabits cereal and scrabble cheezits. We are off on Monday and Tuesday next week for Memorial Day, and then on Wednesday, the 30th, the farmer is bringing our chick eggs. We have so much fun learning about the chick life cycle and then watching them hatch!! Finally, does anyone have a spare keyboard (USB)that you would be willing to donate? The keyboard in my classroom doesn't work. I have so many great things I like to use the computer for during the butterfly and chick themes, but I need a keyboard :( If you have one, please let me know. Have a great week!!

Week of May 7th It's hard to believe we are into the month of May! School will be over before we know it. This week, we are on the letter X. The children are getting excited as we approach the end of the alphabet. This week, we will focus on practicing our songs for the Mother's Day Tea Party. The children have been working hard learning some songs and they have a few surprises they are working on as well. We hope to see you at our tea party on Friday. I would like to share with you some of the themes that will be touched upon this month: Butterflies and caterpillars Flowers and how they grow Chick life cycle (our baby chicks will arrive on May 30th) Please contact me with any questions. Have a great week.

Week of April 23 Hello everyone, I hope all of the children told you what a great time we had celebrating earth day. They really did a great job decorating the garden and I think they enjoyed the "cup of dirt" snack :) Well, we are getting close to the end of the alphabet!! This week we will focus on letter v. On Monday, we will do our letter V review and dot painting. I am sure you can all see the big difference in dot painting work that is coming home now as compared to the beginning of the year. We have really tuned our fine motor skills with this project!! On Wednesday, we will work on math and shapes skills though a kite shape project. On Friday, we will be doing a fun vegetable project. We will be painting with veggies!! We also will "cook" a veggie smiley face snack. I will be posting a sign up sheet outside the classroom for our letter v food day. There are a variety of vegetables that we will need so please, if you can, sign up to bring something to our class on Friday for this fun project. Thanks in advance for your support. As always, please contact me with any questions!!

Week of April 16th

I hope everyone had a wonderful spring break!!

Yesterday, we learned about the letter U. We also discussed Earth Week. We are celebrating this entire week. We discussed ways we can help the earth and keep it clean.
On Wednesday, we will begin our Earth Day project, which involves making our outside play area more beautiful! We will be painting some garden stones so that on Friday, we can place them outside in the garden.
On Friday, we will clean up the outside playground and be the "Planet Police". We will look or garbage to pick up and beautify our yard!

We will not be cooking on Friday because I really cannot find an appropriate recipe for letter U. We will, however, have a special snack in honor of earth day.

We will, however, be making some recycle art. Please send in some clean, enpty, recyclables. Examples are empty water bottles, toilet paper rolls, empty and clean yogurt containers, etc. We will use them to paint beautiful pictures. You can begin sending these on Wednesday and continue on Friday. We will need them by Friday morning. Ideally, it would be great to have one item per child.

Thanks and have a great week.

3/26

Hello families,
We have been busy!!! Last week we learned the letter S and talked about the Spring. We have been singing our spring songs. Ask your child to sing them for you!! We had a "camp out" on Friday and made some yummy s'mores. We even told a spooky story. It was fun!!

This week, we have begun letter T.
We will continue to talk about spring, birds, flowers, etc.
On Wednesday, we will make a flower craft.
On Friday, we will cook toast and serve it with butter, jelly, and cream cheese.

Next week is our spring celebration. Info. Should have gone home. Check your cubbies. Rain date is Wednesday the 4th. We will be making some fun Easter and spring crafts this week and next.

I hope everyone has a wonderful spring break, which starts Thursday, April 5th.

Week of March 12

This week we will begin our unit on Rainbows. You will see our classroom and hallways start to come alive with color over the next few weeks as we make colorful rainbows and welcome the spring. It is always a fun time of year.

Monday, we will learn about the letter R. We will do our dot painting activity. We will also do a small group activity of rainbow necklaces (using fruit loop cereal).

Wednesday will be our cooking day. We will be making and enjoying Rice Krispie Treats. If anyone would like to donate a bag of mini marshmallows or a box of rice krispies, please see me. Your donations are always appreciated!!! We will also be making a rainbow craft during group activity time. We will focus on what makes a rainbow, what colors we see, And the order of those colors.

Friday, we will have a special snack in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. We will make a pot of gold craft. I think the sneaky leprechaun will visit us as well!! He always seems to mess up my classroom, but he does always leave special treat behind to enjoy!! (corn pops make great gold pieces!!) The teachers Will provide green bagels and lucky charms for the children this day. It is just a small special snack, no extra items will be needed.

Have a great week.

This Week

Hi all,
Sorry for the late post. I was having trouble accessing the Blogger site. Anyway, this week is one of my favorite weeks of the year! It's the letter P and Dr. Seuss Week.
Yesterday, we did our letter P dot painting and read Dr. Seuss's The Foot Book.
On Wednesday, we will read "If You Give a Pig a Pancake" and we will make pancakes! Yummy! You only need to send a drink for your child for snack time. I will take care of the pancakes and syrup.
On Friday, we will join Ms. Kristy's class to make Green Eggs and Ham in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday!! Wear you pajamas too!!

Dr. Seuss's birthday week is also called "Read Across America". Don't forget to look in the hallway at our "Read Across Our School" display. All of the book reports that we have worked on throughout the year. They look great!

As part of the celebration, all month, we will have parents and special guest come and read a favorite book to our class. If you would like to read to our class, please sign up in the hallway. We will be able to accomodate two readers a day - one in the morning at 9:00 and one in the afternoon at 2:15. We look forward to having you come join our class for a quick book!

Don't forget your scheduled conference tomorrow night.
Thanks and have a great week.