End of year projects! Week of May 22nd
We’ve been hard at work on our end of the year projects! Our paper sculpture bugs are coming along nicely. Many children enjoyed decorating them this week: Everyone loves practicing the folk dances and some of the older students have made beautiful country posters to go along with the dances. We have dances from Denmark, […]
Week of May 15th
We had a great week working on our handwriting and revisiting an old, favorite activity: popcorn words! We picked “kernels” (scrunched up papers with words written on them) out of the basket and practice reading and writing the words with a small group. On Thursday we got out the shaving cream and did popcorn words […]
We’ve been enjoying learning about bugs and insects! We learned that all insects have three body parts, six legs and antennas. We’ve spent some time at circle identifying insects from other bugs. We’ve enjoyed the stories, “The Grouchy Ladybug”, “Waiting for Wings” and “Insect World”. On Wednesday we made cupcake insects (ladybugs and bumblebees). The […]
caterpillars, tadpoles and folk dancing!
We spent a lot of the week learning about caterpillars and butterflies. Our caterpillars have arrived and are very small and sleepy. We were also able to acquire some frog eggs for the classroom which we watched hatch on Tuesday and Wednesday. The children are keeping a watchful eye on both our caterpillars and tadpoles […]