Group Meeting:  It's two more days until the art show.  We have started to put up some of the paintings. 

Story:  Our story for today was Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman.    This is a book that is part of the Beginning Reader collection by Dr. Seuss.  In this story, a baby bird hatches from an egg and begins searching for his mother.  He has never seen her before, so he doesn't know what to look for.  Is the kitten his mother?  Is a cow his mother?  Ask your child to tell you how he finds his mother.

Small Groups:  The activities for this week are listed in yesterday's post.  The schedule for today was:
Activity #1 Yellow Group
Activity #2 Green Group
Activity #3 Red Group

Large Group:  We went to the Outdoor Classroom.  The weather is supposed to turn to cold and rainy for the next two days.  We thought we'd better take advantage of the beautiful weather today.

Snacks:  The morning class had French toast sticks, syrup and milk brought by Andon.  The afternoon class had bagels, cream cheese, and juice brought by Beckett.  Thank you!

Group Meeting:  We are counting down the days until the Art Show.  I drew four paint pots on the message board.  Each day we will erase one.  This will help us remember. 

Story:  Our story for today was The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss.  This book helps us a little about opposites.  Left foot, right foot, wet foot, dry foot.  How many feet do we meet?

Small Group:  The activities for this week and schedule for today are listed below.

Activity #1 (Red Group)  Dr. Seuss' books have a lot of alliteration in the sentences.  The children used the first letter of their name to make a sentence full of words that start the same.  For example, Colin caught a caterpillar crawling on the car.
Activity #2 (Yellow Group)  The children used a picture dice to think of words that rhyme.  For example, if a child rolled a cat, they would list bat, rat, fat, etc.
Activity #3  (Green Group)  Using the theme from our story today, the children measured tape lines using their feet.  How many feet long was the blue line?  They used a paper to help them record their answers.

Large Group:  The children went to the Outdoor Classroom.  We took some paper out to make paper airplanes. 

Snacks:  The morning class had Apple Jacks, peanut butter Ritz, and juice brought by Adde.  The afternoon class had Lucky Charms, cheese sticks, and milk brought by Ashlyn.  Thank you!

The children are bringing home May calendars and a note about an upcoming field trip. 

Story:  Today, I read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.  This is another classic Dr. Seuss story that most of the children had heard before.  Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently.  Will he try the green eggs and ham?  Does he like them?  Ask your child to tell you.

Small Groups:  The children watched a video about caterpillars and butterflies.  They also created a book with their Let's Find Out Magazine.

Large Group:  The children completed the X page in their workbooks.  Then, it was the Red Group's turn for Show and Tell.

Snacks:  The morning class had muffins and juice brought by Topher.  The afternoon class had Goldfish and juice brought by Addison.  Thank you!

Group Meeting:  We have been counting the days that we have been in school.  Today was number 113.  We figured out that we have 17 days left.  Wow, that went fast. 

Story:  Our story for today was One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.  This book is a collection of little poems with lots of rhyming words.  Several of them turn into tongue twisters. I'm sure that many of you remember reading this as a child.

Small Groups:  The activities for this week are listed in Monday's post.  The schedule for today was:
Activity #1 Green Group
Activity #2 Red Group
Activity #3 Yellow Group

Large Group:  After reading our story for the day, the children made handprint fish by dipping their hand in paint and stamping it onto paper.  This will be on display at the upcoming Art Show.

Snacks:  The morning class had Goldfish and juice brought by Taylor.  The afternoon class had grapes and juice brought by Wesley.  Thank you!

Story:  Our story for today was Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss.  This is a beginner book from Dr. Seuss that encourages children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.  Because there are so many rhyming words in this book, we read it together. 

Small Groups:  The activities for this week are listed in yesterday's post.  The schedule for today was:
Activity #1 Yellow Group
Activity #2 Green Group
Activity #3 Red Group

Large Group:  The children went to the Outdoor Classroom. 

Snacks:  The morning class had applesauce, teddy grahams, and milk brought by Scarlett.  The afternoon class had Frozen grahams and juice brought by Vivian.  Thank you!

Group Meeting:  Everyone shared their weekend events.  It sounds like the Easter Bunny made the rounds :)

Story:  Our story for today was Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire.  This is typically thought of as a Dr. Seuss book.  However, it was not written by Dr. Seuss but was included in his Beginning Books set because of the rhyming words and fun characters.  In this story, an animal wants to be part of the zoo because of his pretty spots, but the zoo doesn't want him.  When he shows the children what he can do with his spots, they have a better suggestion.  Ask your child to tell you what it is.

Small Groups:  The activities for this week are listed below as well as the schedule for today.
Activity #1 (Red Group)  The children played a game in which they had to identify how many syllables were in a word.  They moved a game marker the same amount of spaces as syllables on a game board.  The person who reached the end first was the winner.
Activity #2  (Yellow Group)  The children went to the art table to work on an art project that was inspired by a Dr. Seuss book that we read last week.  These will be on display at our Art Show next week.
Activity #3 (Green Group)  The children played a game we call Leap Frog.  Lily pads with letters printed on them were scattered on the floor.  Each child had a frog that would jump when you pushed the tab on its back.  The frogs landed on the lily pads and the children had to identify the letter on the lily pad.

Large Group:  Following the story, the children made animal faces to look like the animal in our story, Put Me in the Zoo.

Snacks:  The morning class had granola bars, cheese sticks, and milk brought by Owen.  The afternoon class had apples, peanut butter, and milk brought by Simon.  Thank you!

Spring Party

For our games today, we had an egg race in which the children had to balance an egg on the end of a spoon.  We used real eggs for this race.  Some were hard boiled, some were not.  We put plastic eggs on our Stomp Boards to see how far we could launch them.  We did this with partners so that everyone got several turns.

For snacks, the morning class had ice cream sundaes and the afternoon class had cupcakes.  Following snacks, the children found eggs hidden in the yard.

Thank you to all of the grown-ups who provided candy, snacks, and party items for our party today.