MARVELOUS MONDAY 4-22-13

EARTH DAY~

Today we read the story, The Earth and I, in honor of Earth Day!  Last week, we discussed recycling and started our composting with our "worm hotel".  Our worms LOVE paper.  Children can bring in newspaper from home that we will tear and feed to the worms for composting.  We will continue to discuss and learn ways that we can help take care of our Earth.  This Friday, the Lower School will celebrate our Earth by wearing a special shirt color.  An e-mail was sent this morning explaining what shirt color the children can wear.  The note sent via e-mail is also pictured below.

 

 NEW FREE CHOICE ACTIVITIES~

We introduced many new activities during Free Choice to go along with Springtime and our new study of the Life Cycle of a Butterfly.

Sasha and Josh use tweezers to find "insects and worms in the grass" at the Sensory Tub.

 Collier investigates a cocoon at the Discovery Station.

 Bittania and Marc work to put together a Butterfly floor puzzle.

 

 Sophia practices her counting skills at Math Magic.

 Dominic creates a patterned caterpillar at the Creation Station.

 Sophia also does a patterned caterpillar.

Josh matches the different butterflies at the Discovery Station.

 Graham puts together a puzzle of the United States.

 

Sasha sorts a container of insects by color.

 

 Enjoying books in the Book Nook.

POPCORN WORD~

Ask your child to use our new popcorn word in a sentence!

 CHARLOTTE'S WEB~

Today we started reading the book, Charlotte's Web.

THRILLING THURSDAY 4-18-13

FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

Marc and Dominic using their spatial reasoning skills.

 LIFE CYCLE OF A BUTTERFLY~

We told the story today of the life cycle of a butterfly using photo cards.  This will be our final unit of study for this school year. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!~

We helped Lily celebrate her April birthday!  Lily's Papa read the story, Cowlick, and then we enjoyed eating Drumsticks for Lily's birthday treat.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LILY!

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY 4-17-13

FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

Jon and Collier use their spatial reasoning skills.

 Marc and Dominic persevere to put together a jigsaw Space puzzle.

 ZERO THE HERO~

 Today we celebrated our 140th day of school!!!  Bittania's mom and Collier's mom helped us celebrate.  We painted sun catchers.  Thank you!

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 4-16-13

STAR OF THE WEEK~

Our new Star of the Week is Collier!  Collier's favorite things include her favorite color:  gold; favorite dessert:  raspberry sorbet; and favorite restaurant:  Japanese Steakhouse.  Through her photos, Collier shared with us about her recent trip to Thailand and China.  Thanks for helping us get to know you better, Collier!

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DIARY OF A WORM~

 

To follow up with our lesson on composting, we read the story, DIARY OF A WORM.   The children really enjoyed this story, told from the perspective of a worm.

SPECIAL FRIENDS' DAY

In your child's folder today, he/she brought home information in a large white envelope about an upcoming, annual, special event in the Lower School called, "Special Friends' Day".  This event will take place on Friday May 10th.   Inside the envelope is a letter from Mr. Vorenberg explaining the event and also a special invitation (illustrated by your child) to send to the special friend that will accompany your child to school on this day.  Please let us know if you have any questions.

MARVELOUS MONDAY 4-15-13

 Y IS FOR YUMMY AND YUCKY!~

Today, children drew pictures and labeled them using their inventive spelling.  Be sure to ask your child what he/she drew for yummy and for yucky!

SOUND OF THE WEEK~

To find out the new Sound of the Week, ask your child to share with you the paper pictured below!

Don't be fooled!

 COMPOSTING~

Mrs. Terwin visited our class today for another lesson on taking care of our Earth.  Pre-K will have its own composting unit with worms--red wiggler worms.  We will "feed" the worms paper scraps, newspaper, and any non-dairy and non-meat scraps from our snacks.  Your child is welcome to bring in old newspapers from home until the end of the year to feed to our worms.

  

 Mrs. Terwin explaining how she will make a "bed" for the worms.

One of the worm trays....

 The worms!!

 

FANTASTIC FRIDAY 4-12-13

PREPARING FOR EARTH DAY~

Mrs. Terwin visited our class to discuss, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".  This is just the first of a series of lessons we will do to help the Pre-K children became actively involved at home and at school in making every day, "Earth Day"!  Stay tuned!

 

 

 FREE CHOICE~

 Check out what we used to decorate our letter "Y".  It's "double trouble"!!

 Madelyn counts the yellow objects on the counting chart.