I can't believe the school year is coming to an end!
We hope you all enjoyed Portfolio Night. The children worked very hard to prepare, and I know they were excited to share their performance with you. We have been practicing our songs for our upcoming graduation! Please plan to attend the luncheon at noon and the graduation ceremony at six pm on Thursday June 2. We will have more details early next week. We enjoyed our last class visit to the Helena House and made special flowers for our grandfriends. We also made an extra to take home! They were happy to see us as always, and we practiced our graduation songs for them. We are CLOSED Monday for Memorial Day. Have a great weekend! Our photos from the last two weeks are here.
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We've been busy this week rehearsing for next Friday! If you would like to rehearse your child's lines, there are copies on the table as soon as you walk in our classroom. Thank you! Please plan to be in our classroom around 5 pm so you can look at the portfolios before the show starts at 5:30.
We have spent time under the sea while talking about the Pout Pout Fish and jellyfish. Be sure to check out our display in the hallway! Our field trip with Mr. Bender really sparked our interest in ocean life. In Spanish this week we talked about the directions arriba and abajo (up and down). We put objects in a big glass jar filled with water to see if they would float arriba or sink abajo. Students took turns making predictions and then seeing what really happened. We discovered that el papelito, la hoja, and el palito (paper, leaf and stick) stayed arriba, and la moneda, crayon, y piedras (coin, crayon, and stones) went abajo. They were good at making predictions! Have a great weekend! Our photos are here. Happy Mother’s Day! We hope you enjoy the necklaces that we made for you. After our field trip to the Sands, we showed so much interest in sea critters, so we decided to do starfish. I read them a little quote from a song (“I love you like a starfish loves the salty water”), and then the children came up with the next line. I loved their responses!
We had such a great time on our field trip to the Sands- Mr. Bender showed us how to find creatures at the estuary and placed them in our tank. We had the opportunity to sketch them while observing them in the aquarium. He also brought us some coloring pages of the animals we found. Our field trip morning ended with a fun picnic with our friends. Our rehearsals for Portfolio Night are going well, and we are excited to perform for you on Friday May 20! PLEASE tell Mrs. Fastenau if your child will NOT be able to attend this event. We have been finishing up some of the portfolio work such as tracings, cuttings, student interviews, and name samples. I cannot wait to share this compilation of work with you. The portfolios remain at school until graduation. Thank you so much for the flowers, cards, and treats for Teacher Appreciation Week. I’m so glad to have your children in my class! Have a great weekend. Our photos are here. We are going “under the sea” in the pre-K class now! We’ve been busy taking care of the land part of the Earth, but now we’re going to help the water part. In preparation for our field trip on Monday with Mr. Bender, we will be talking about the ocean. We have some new centers including a mermaid cave, ocean animals in the water beads, and a fish/bubble activity.
We worked on tracing and cutting some sea creature shapes such as a starfish, sand dollar, and more. These will go in our portfolios to demonstrate our growth and development since the last tracing activity. During circle time one day, we read a book about FLOATING and related it to our swim lessons. When we are stretched out and flat like a piece of bread, we float in the water. When we curl up in a ball like if we squish the bread, we sink. We know that rocks, even small ones, sink. Someone asked whether crabs float, and when Mr. Bender came to feed the critters, he answered that for us. Some crabs have special “paddles” on their back legs to help them swim, but they don’t float. We did our own experiment about floating on Thursday. Using a big tub of blue water and a variety of objects, we tested buoyancy. We reviewed what we learned at swim lessons about floating and applied it to these objects- napkins (spread out and smushed up), a crayon, different types of paper, a flower petal, a marble, and sea animal toys. Then the tub was used during center time for the children to experiment by themselves. They had fun! We had such a great time at swim lessons the past two weeks! The children were so well-behaved and enthusiastic. I have been very proud of them. La Casa: This week in Spanish we talked about la casa (the house) and learned the words for different parts of the house: el techo (roof), las ventanas (windows), and la puerta (door). We learned actions for each of these words and put together our own house on the feltboard. Students chose how many ventanas and where to put them, as well as which color puerta and the weather (sol/sunny or nublado/cloudy.) Enthusiastic learners as always! MONDAY- field trip to the Sands with Mr. Bender. Please let us know if you are going to attend. Our photos are here. |
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