Spring and so much to learn!

We had great fun with St. Patrick's Day last week and we're moving onto to Spring themes. We'll be looking and learning about plants, the signs of spring outside and all kinds of creepy, crawly bugs! It should be great fun! We will learn about the letter J and the number 8 this week also. We'll be learning how to measure with different forms of measurement including using scales, rulers, yardsticks, measuring tape, and liquid and dry measurements that we use in the kitchen.

The children made great selections about springtime on the bookmobile. They chose numerous books and some DVD's about bugs and spring. We will read as many as we can and we've already found a great one written by Eric Carle called The Very Clumsy Click Beetle. The children loved it and it has a great message in it about trying something several times before you can do it yourself. The children are leaning to write their letters and numbers and at times it gets very frustrating. When we are working on trying to write your name or the number of the week we are learning that it's ok if you can't write it the first time you try it but that with practice you can get better. They saw this first hand with the click beetle and how he handled it when he had to try many times.

Dates to remember:

• Wednesday, March 24, the green room will be swimming.
• April 1 and April 5, no school due to Easter/Spring Break.