Dear Tuesday-Thursday Families!
We wish we could celebrate SPRING during letter S week, but we have to wait a few more days! We are so ready for spring, that we decided to plant some seeds this week at preschool. We had so much fun planting basil, spearmint and chives. The seed packets say that they should sprout in 7 - 14 days. We will let you know!
We had fun cutting out snakes this week, too! On Thursday, we had even more fun painting them with yellow, blue and green paints. You will see them hanging over the cubbies when you come to school on Tuesday.
In addition to the seeds and the snakes, we also had tons of other fun. Here are some of the other things that happened in our classroom...
We heard the stories Silly Sally by Audrey Wood and Seeds by Ken Robbins (both are Big Books that I borrowed from the local library)
We played with tanagrams to learn about shapes and how they fit together to make beautiful pictures and designs.
We made torn paper collages using bright colored paper and glue sticks.
We had fun with dramatic play using our toy barn and the farm animals.
We explored items that begin with the letter S in our "Exploration Station"
(the spiders were a huge favorite! Don't worry, they were plastic!)
We played with bouncy balls in the gym (going in groups of 3 or 4)
And many of us really enjoyed cleaning the paint off of our messy tablecloth! We actually had people waiting for their turn to clean, and waiting patiently to "trade sponges." :) I wonder if they do that at home.....
Feel free to stop in the classroom to help sometime! We'd love to have the extra pair of hands, and it will give you a chance to see your child learning and playing. Just sign up on the calendar by the sign in sheet!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Jean, Miss Amy and Miss Pat
