Sunday, March 25, 2012

What to Study?

Last week we had a discussion of what we already know about spring and the children knew a lot about it already!  They told me that you can ride your bikes in the spring, grass grows in the spring, it's sunny in the spring, and that baby birds are born in the springtime.  Then I asked what they wanted to learn about for our spring study and these are the topics they gave me: caterpillars, bunnies, snakes, frogs, butterflies, and chipmunks.  So I now have books on all those subjects and we'll delve into those this week. It should be great fun to learn all about these topics that they chose and then anything else along the way as well!


Monday, March 19, 2012

Spring Around the Corner

Now that the leprechauns have left our classroom and left us some chocolate gold we can move onto spring this week!  We had such fun looking for leprechauns and finding things they left behind such as jewels in our sensory table, footprints around the classroom and cafeteria, and then they made a mess in our classroom!  It was great fun!


Today we'll start reading about how things grow and what spring means.  We'll continue working on our fantastic art projects for our Art Show in May.  The children are creating many masterpieces and having experimenting along the way as well with different art mediums.


Dates to Remember:
Thursday, March 22-Swimming at the YMCA

Thursday-Monday, April 5-9-No school due to Spring Break-school resumes on Tuesday, April10.

Tuesday, April 17-storyteller Mary Jo Huff is coming to New Hope Christian School for a free evening that is open to everyone.

Wednesday, April 18-our class is going to Mound Street to her Mary Jo Huff along with the preschool there and I'll send permission slips home for that event.

Schedule change-We won't be swimming on April 19 but we will go to the AHA Museum in Lancaster.  We originally planned to go to AHA on the 26 of April but we had to move that up a week to the 19 of April.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Reminder No School on Monday, March 12

Just a reminder that there's no school on Monday, March 12 due to a teacher in-service.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

March

The dinosaurs have been a lot of fun and we still have more to learn and the interest is still high so we'll continue learning about them this week.  Tomorrow we'll hide dinosaur eggs around the classroom and have the children search for them with clues!


I have prepared the second CD of songs for your children and I'll be sending that home on Monday. I hope they enjoy them as much as we do singing them in school!


Dates to Remember:
Thursday, March 8 and 22-we will be swimming at the YMCA.
Monday, March 12-No School due to a teacher's in-service day.