How Does A Seed Grow?

 This week we built on our knowledge of insects & spiders to learn about the ecosystem and how they help plants grow.  Here are our lima bean seeds (above.)  We put them in these little greenhouses to observe them and were amazed at how much they have started to grow.  They came home in your child's bag, so you can plant them in your garden or in a large flower pot to see the entire life cycle of a plant.  Below are some seeds from a friend.  He brought them in to share with our class and we separated them into 2 categories: eat and can't eat.  The children were surprised to learn how much we need plants to flowers to live.  (At the very least we need them to breathe.)  These seeds were so interesting and the children had a great time looking at them.  Thank so much to this friend for sharing them with us.

Fun Friend Pictures

 

 Just some cute pictures from our week.  It is getting louder and louder as it gets closer to the end of the year.  Everyone is so excited that they are ready for Kindergarten.  I love how the children in our class get along and play together.  These smiles are sure to brighten your day.

Library Day

 Here is our friendly librarian.  She came for another visit this week and brought some great books about fish.  It was a fun way to introduce our unit for next week.  Everybody LOVED the books that she brought to share.  Isn't it great how much we love to hear stories?  I always tell the students in my class that reading makes your brain grow...so they are working hard to learn to read.

Koinobori Witn Bonnie Sensei

 The four year old students at the preschool celebrated Children's Day in Japan with Bonnie Sensei by making beautiful fish kites.  These are koinobori and are used to celebrate Children's Day in Japan.  We will display them upstairs.  We are so excited to be learning Japanese this year and look forward to singing a song for everyone at the Spring Program.

Summer Is Almost Here

We had a really good time yesterday and you can definitely tell that the end of the year is just around the corner.  Our classroom is getting louder and louder.  The children are so EXCITED that they are almost in kindergarten.  Here is our summer door decoration.  These are sunny faces and if you are in the building - you should stop by to read about some of our summer plans.  I cannot believe that we have less than 4 weeks of our preschool year left.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Since we learned about insects & and spiders last week, we made a fun little caterpillar inspired by Eric Carle.  I am pretty sure that everyone is familiar with his beautiful books and this was from The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  The children selected the colors for the "creepy crawly" friend and did all of the cutting and pasting.  They are so cheerful and happy and aren't very "creepy crawly" at all.  Who knew that we would love learning about insects and spiders so much!

Show & Tell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Show & Tell Week!  It was a another fun time for everyone as we brought our "very best thing" to share with our class.  We had transformers, stuffed animals, a marionette, pictures, a baby doll with a pacifier and a real live hermit crab.  We did a really good job sharing with our friends.  Don't forget that we will do show & tell each week until the end of the year.  Please follow the schedule that was provided.