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BABBLE

May 21, 2010

Upcoming Events

May 31 Closed for Memorial Day

June 4 CNO "Space Adventures"

June 9 Pre-k Graduation & Sundae Social

June 11 School Closed for Staff Training

June 14 Summer Session begins

June 18 Summer Solstice Goodnight Moon Party

Are you Green?  We are..

We do Project Green each Wednesday in every classroom.  Each month there is a Project Green planned activity.  Each Wednesday in the classroom the children do several activites such as create art, a cooking project, science project or recently adopt an endangered species.  Our goal is to make the children aware of the importance of saving the Earth. We also have our trash picked up by Time Disposal so we are doing our part in Going Green. 

We are in the process of adding some organic snacks to the menu and would love so input and ideas.

Kids Rummage Sale!

June 9^th-10^th

3:00pm - 6:30pm

Donate gently used KIDS items like toys, books, shoes, and clothes! Nothing will be priced over $5. Any leftover items will be donated to the Goodwill.

Please apply sunscreen in the morning before drop off!!  If you would like to send in a hat for your child to wear that is great be sure your child's name is on it.

Thank you for joining us the Annual Family Picnic.  The children and staff did a wonderful job preparing and putting on a great show!!  We are very excited about Mara Workman being our teacher of the year!

Speech Weekly with Ms. Stacy

Toddlers and young 2's

We began by reading a repetitive story while acting out the movements in the story.  We also fed our baby cookies that were in the shape of a circle, rectangle, heart, semicircle, triangle, and square. Next we focused on a sharing activity in which the children sat in a circle and requested a toy by using at least 3-4 words.  We read "Buddy Bear Goes on Vacation" and described all the places Buddy Bear went such as the desert, ocean, jungle, forest, etc. We worked on sign language throughout the entire session.

Older 2's

We began by reading "Polar Bear Polar Bear" and described several animals as well as actions.  We then read "Buddy Bear Goes on Vacation" and described places such as the forest, jungle, beach, desert, ocean, etc.  We also fed our talking baby shape cookies.  The children did a great job with the different shapes.  We also worked on a sharing activity in which the children requested a toy from their friends using at least 5-6 words. 

3's and 4's

  This week we focused primarily on phonemic awareness.  The children received a plate filled with shaving cream to practice their letters.  I made a sound and the children had to "write" the corresponding letter in the shaving cream.  Then we discussed words that began with specific sounds as well as came up with rhyming words.  Next we began blending sounds to make words.  We used the tabletop to make simple words and integrated several letters to make new words.  The children are going to have a great start to Kindergarten.  In the upcoming language groups I would like to continue the "Road to the Code" phonemic awareness program to continue sound blending. 

Have a great weekend. 

                                                                        Stacy Torrence M.S. CCC-SLP

Weekly Financial Reminders

Pay the 2010-2011 re-registration fee now to ensure your child a spot in our program.

Be sure to use your pass card upon entering the building. If you forget your card, please sign in at the front desk.

Monkey

The family picnic on Sunday was a blast! Thanks to all those who attended! In the Monkey room this week we will be using the sensory table daily and practicing the terms "inside" and "outside." We will be practicing sharing with our friends by rolling balls to each other in a big circle! We will also be doing some tumbling this week! We are always practicing colors and learning how to match things! We have a cooking project planned for Friday! We are hoping to get some time outside! For art we will be making corn, finger puppets, a portrait of the child's pet, cat art and lady bugs!

Giraffe

The Giraffes did a great job at Family Picnic. Thank you for your support this year! I hope to see everyone at the Family Picnic again next year! This week the children will be learning about farmers, what they do, the tools they use and what plants and animals they care for. Our Art activities this week will be related to our farm animal theme. This week the Giraffes welcome two new friends Hannah and Delcan! We want to wish Caden a very happy birthday! We are also very sad to say goodbye to our friend Caleb! We will miss you and hope you come back to visit us; best wishes in Germany!

Lion

This week the Lions are roaring about farm animals. We have been singing "Old MacDonald", "BINGO", and "Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow". Our art this week included dress the farmer, baby duck finger prints, and farm cats. We discussed who lives in a barn, what most farm animals eat, equipment on a farm and what the farmer's job is. Our letter of the week is "O".  We will be adding words to our wordlist and practicing writing in our journals. For Children's Humanities we continue to explore various ways of crating art; sidewalk chalk, water painting outside, play dough sculpting, and charcoal paintings. We had a fun week! We welcome Cedric to our class and wish Halei a Happy Birthday!

Elephant

We had a very successful Family Picnic over the weekend, and had so much fun performing for our families. We are continuing our theme of farming and learning about pets as well. We have talked about the jobs a farmer does on his farm and the jobs we do at home for our pets. Our letter of the week is O and we are getting very good at tracing it! We are also still practicing counting but in addition we are graphing, estimating and adding and subtracting objects. We are beginning to count very high no w! w!

Tigers

The family picnic was a big success. The Tigers enjoyed singing for their families, and eating all the good food! Thanks go to everyone! This week we are going to focus on our family pets. What pet do we have, their name, and how old they are! It is always fun to bring in a picture of our pet to share with the class. The Tigers have been working very hard on number and letter recognition. A big hit in the class is 1-2-3 Bingo and A-B-C Bingo, fun games for learning! For Project Green we are discussing keeping America beautiful, what part do we play and how it can be done. We continue our music each day - singing, dancing, and playing musical chairs. As you can see the Tigers are having a good time.

Zebra

We became farmers this week! On Monday, we read I'm Going to be a Farmer. This book had great photographs of a little boy helping his family on their farm. We learned about the many jobs a farmer has and we talked about which ones we'd like to be in charge of. Many of our activities this week were theme related. We played a fun circle time game where we guessed which farm food and farm animal was in our mystery box. This encouraged great listening and thinking skills. For art, we drew pictures of Old MacDonald (not to be confused with Ronald McDonald like some of our friends were!), painted barns, and drew pictures of our favorite f arm pet. We spent time writing about farm jobs and farm animals. Our corn is beginning to really take off and our herbs are starting to sprout. On Tuesday, some of us wanted to plant pear, apple, and orange seeds that we discovered during lunch. We planted these seeds and will look forward to watching out for sprouts! Dramatic play was encouraged with a plastic barn, animals, and tractor. The kids added Lincoln log fences and carpet squares for grass!

Chameleon

This week in the Chameleon class we have been talking about pets. We read the book Pet Show by Ezra Jack Keats. We talked about animals that can be pets and animals that cannot. We also played a pets beginning sound game, a cat whiskers counting game, and worked on ordinal numbers with a dog show game. On Friday we even bought in our stuffed animals to have our own pet show. We also analyzed pet food to see if we could guess what type of animal ate each kind of food. We worked on graphing skills by graphing the types of pets we have at home, and worked on estimation with dog bones. We went digging for bones in the sensory table and experimented the texture of bird seed. For art we painted with water colors, made cats, dogs and cat puppets and painted pictures of our own pets.

BABBLE

May 7, 2010

Upcoming Events

May 10 Parent/Teacher Conferences

May 16 Family Picnic/Art Show

May 31 Closed for Memorial Day

Kids Rummage Sale!

June 9^th-10^th

3:00pm – 6:30pm

Donate gently used KIDS items like toys, books, shoes, and clothes! Nothing will be priced over $5. Any leftover items will be donated to the Goodwill.

Speech with Ms. Stacy

                                                             5.07.10

These are the skills that were addressed this week.  I’m seeing improvements with speech and language skills in all of the classrooms. 

Toddlers and young 2’s

We began by reading several noisy stories working on a variety of speech sounds.  We also used a ball toy to request a hammer and a ball while using as many words as possible.  We worked on sign language throughout the entire session.

Older 2’s

We began by reading a noisy story and used our ball toy as well.  The children did a great job of requesting the color of their choice by stating “May I have the yellow ball please”.  We then focused on things that go together.  The children had to look at four pictures and name the pictures that go together.  For example a bird and a nest, a toothbrush and toothpaste, and crayons and paper, etc.  We also worked on opposites such as up/down, big/little, on/off, top/bottom etc.

3’s and 4’s

  We used our light up toy and sat in a circle and answered several “wh” questions.  We then focused on opposites as a group.  We worked on almost 50 opposites together; A few examples were few/many, thin/thin, simple/fancy, top/bottom, long/short, clean/dirty etc.  We also addressed things that go together. Each child had to pick two items that went together and explain why the two items went together.  Explaining why was a little challenging at times, but those are higher order language skills that are great to work on and challenge the kids. 

Have a great weekend. 

                                                                        Stacy Torrence M.S. CCC-SLP

Reading with Ms. Fischer

On Tuesday, May 4th, a lesson on friendship was presented through a read a-loud of the book, A Rainbow of Friends, by P. K. Hallinan and a “Find a Friend” matching game.  The book prompted a time of talking and listening to discuss what it means to be a good friend.  Such interactive and fun language activities will encourage early literacy skills for reading and writing success during the elementary school years.

Weekly Financial Reminders

Weekly and bi-weekly payments are due by the close of business on Mondays.  Late charges will be applied to accounts on Tuesday if payment is not received.

On your child's last day, please return your security card.  We are able to recycle these.  If we do not receive your card back, a $20.00 charge per card will be applied to your account and deducted from the deposit that was paid upon enrollment.

Monkey

This week in the Monkey room we will be doing many activities! For art, we will be making flower faces, rainbows, lions, ladybugs, and very special Mothers Day cards! We will be enjoying a cooking project on Thursday. Throughout the week, we will make a road for a taxi, build a car out of chairs, have puzzle time and time for free building! We are still practicing daily for the upcoming family picnic on May 15^th @ 4:00. Be sure to mark your calendars!

Giraffe

This week the children will be learning about “May 5^th”. This is a great way to celebrate with our Mexican friends. We are also getting ready for  Mother’s Day. We will continue to practice for the Family Picnic. Most of the Giraffes are doing great potty training. Please let them keep up the work at home during the weekend. Please keep in mind, children cannot move up if they are not potty trained. I’m also asking parents to make sure the kids are dressed for the weather. We are also asking parents to make sure there are ice packs in the lunch boxes, with the warmer weather approaching we want to make sure yogurt and other items are cold for children.

Lion

This week the Lion class has had a lot of fun preparing for Mother’s Day! We have been working on some very top secret gifts for Mommy! For Art this week the Lion class has enjoyed finger painting, decorating wrapping paper, making a Mother’s Day cards, and painting a paper plate flower. Our letter of the week is Ii. We have been practicing singing our letter Ii song and reviewing our LEA chart. We also enjoyed reading our letter of the week book My Ii Book. On Wednesday we enjoyed talking about Cinco de Mayo and eating a special snack. We have enjoyed playing in kitchen this week and pretending to have a picnic! Yay! All of my Lion friends are potty trained! Thank you to everyone for your hard work!

Elephant

This week we have begun learning some Spanish words – colors! We are still practicing writing our letters and our letter of the week, I. We did lots of Spring and summer art as well as gifts for Mother’s day this weekend! We made flowers, picnic art, rainbows, and did a cooking project: tortilla chips and dip while we learned about Cinco de Mayo. We are writing in our journals and getting used to writing our names, letters, and cutting with scissors, as well as recognizing more numbers and seeing how high we can count.

Tigers

The Tigers had a great time this week!  For Math and Science, the Tigers worked on estimation with marbles and discussed the different types of pets people may have, and what pets the Tigers have at home. For Language Arts, the Tigers discussed the new month (May), worked with the letter of the week – “Ii”, project green, and completed a cooking project and created a Mother’s Day card for the upcoming holiday. For Art, the Tigers made flowers, rainbows, lions out of their hands, and pancakes! For Social Awareness the Tigers learned about the Spanish culture, and learned some Spanish songs! The Tigers would like to say Congratulations to Gabby Tenia on her new baby sister!!

Zebra

Our week was spent observing the weather around us. On Monday, we read Eric Carle’s Little Cloud and talked about how and why it rains. We learned “cloud-words” like cirrus, stratus, and cumulus and did a little cloud watching during outside play. On Thursday, we studied some extreme weather like tornadoes and thunderstorms. We read  and baked a cake just like in the story! We also made a tornado in our classroom! For art, we painted clouds, sketched the weather during outside cloud walk, and made a paper plate weather chart. We took the time to make some special art projects for the special ladies in our lives – our moms! We began working more and more on our “Down by the Bay” Family Picnic Performance.

Chameleon

This week in the Chameleon class we are discussing Mother’s Day and learning about baby animals. We are reading the book, “Are you my Mother?” We also made a Mother’s Day class book and practiced writing about things we like to do with our moms. We have also been busy working on Mother’s day gifts this week. We are finishing up our kindergarten assessments and reviewing some skills to prepare for Kindergarten. We are reviewing lower case letters, numbers 10-20, and working on counting. For Science, we are learning about flowers and baby animals with sunflower measuring, a pollination activity, and a “born or hatched” file folder game. In our Dramatic play and block center, we went on a spring picnic and pretended we were farmers taking care of animals on a farm this week. For Humanities this month, we are learning about art history. This week we are talking about the many different mediums used to create art and experimenting with a few of them, such as paint and chalk. For Social Studies, we are learning and reviewing our colors in Spanish, and we are beginning circle time each morning by greeting each other in Spanish. The Chameleons were in the kitchen on Thursday making quesadillas for our cooking project. For Project Green this week the Chameleons planted sunflower seeds, which we will plant to create a sunflower garden for the school.

BABBLE

April 30, 2010

Upcoming Events

May 7 Children’s Night Out

May 10 Parent/Teacher Conferences

May 16 Family Picnic/Art Show

May 31 Closed for Memorial Day

Kids Rummage Sale!

June 9^th-10^th

3:00pm – 6:30pm

Donate gently used KIDS items like toys, books, shoes, and clothes! Nothing will be priced over $5. Any leftover items will be donated to the Goodwill.

Speech with Ms. Stacy

A language-rich environment?

A language-rich environment is pretty much what the name suggests: a setting in which the child is surrounded by talk and has plenty of opportunities to communicate with others.

Research on child language development has confirmed the importance of talking frequently to children below age 3 and using a wide variety of vocabulary. Toddlers whose parents do this develop better expressive and receptive language skills than children whose parents talk less with them and use a limited vocabulary.

The value of this is not limited to children with speech and language disorders.  All children can benefit from a healthy and varied diet of language activities. The following are tips and ideas for talking to your child in ways that help develop better language skills:

Turn off the TV 


Talk, talk, talk (slowly and simply)

Sing and rhyme 


Get out the toys and play, but ditch the batteries 


Learn (and use) some baby signs

Don't try to implement everything at once. Instead, pick one of these things you think you can do, and try it for a week. Once it becomes a habit, add something else. You may already be doing some or all of these things. If so, see if you can do those more often and be more conscious of them while you're doing them. After all, very few parents are actually doing anything wrong, but most parents can do more right.

Music with Ms. Melissa

The children love to sing and dance.  Here are some songs to practice at home with your child! This great way to bridge home and school. 

Arabella Miller (tune of Twinkle Twinkle) (Using fingers on arms are a caterpillar)

Little Arabella Miller found a fuzzy caterpillar

First it crawled upon her brother

Then upon her dear grandmother

Little Arabella Miller please take away that….CATAPILLAR! (as it tickles from neck to toe)

Littlest Worm (focus listening and auditory skills)

Adult: “The littlest worm” Child repeats “The Littlest worm”

Adult: “I ever saw” Child repeats: “I ever saw”

Adult: “Was stuck inside” Child repeats “Was stuck inside”

Adult: “My soda straw” Child repeats “My soda straw”

Everyone – The littlest worm I ever saw-aw-aw-aw-aw

Was stuck inside my soda straw-aw-aw-aw-aw-aw!

Weekly Financial Reminders

May tuition is due. Pay by April 30 to avoid late charges.

If you forget your pass card to enter the building, please remember to sign your child in or out at the front desk.

Monkey

This week in the Monkey Room we will be doing a lot of exercise! We are going to be doing a flamingo balance contest to see who can balance the longest! We are also going to be doing some relaxing yoga poses! We are going to be working in our new sensory table this week. For art we are gluing leaves to a tree cut-out, making “I’s” for the letter of the week, making recycle art, and butterflies! There will also be time for building with blocks, puzzles and legos.

Giraffe

This week the Giraffes will go over what we learned during Earth Day. We will go on a trash walk, study soil and practice recycling. Our art activities will be related to the above activities. We will also go over things that start with the letter I, and we will continue to go over our rhymes for the Family Picnic.

Lion

This week the Lion class is very excited to continue to talk about spring and characteristics of trees. The Lions will also continue to talk about helping our Earth by keeping it clean. We will even be going on a trash walk. Our letter of the week is Ii. With May fastly approaching we will soon be ready to transplant our tomato sprouts in our our slice of pizza. If anyone has any donations of top soil for our pizza that would be great!

Elephant

This week we have continued to learn about the earth and what we can see around us, including trees and forests-who lives there, what do they look like, and where can you find them? We have talked about all the different areas of our community where you can find trees and forests. We are adding a new letter to our word list-letter I. In addition, we’re practicing writing our letters and our names, recognizing the letters we’ve learned, and journaling all the words we think of. We are continuing our recycling contest and thinking of new ways we can help our environment!

Tigers

The Tigers were very busy this week!! For Art, the Tigers made paintings with squash, made a globe, a cocoon, tree roots, and did a project with the butterfly life cycle. For Math and Science, the Tigers discussed plants, clean water versus dirty water, and worked on number recognition. For Language Arts, the Tigers played A-B-C Bingo, practiced writing the letter E in their journals, and enjoyed lots of fun books at circle time. For Children’s Humanities, the Tigers enjoyed “Duck, Duck Goose”, “Red Light Green Light”, musical chairs, the shoe hunt game, and hot potato. Dramatic play was also fun this week in Kitchen! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Zebra

This week, we learned all about endangered animals and what we can do to help. During Monday’s circle time, we had a very interesting conversation about the word “endangered.” There were ideas of animals being “in danger” of other animals and even ideas about cats stuck in trees. To get a better understanding of this word “endangered”, we researched internet sites and discovered there are many animals “in danger” of becoming extinct due to hunting, ice melting, oil spills, and shrinking habitats. Everyone was super-interested in wanting to help (“I don’t want the polar bears to go away!”). We spent the week discussing ways people can help animals – we even voted to “adopt” a sea otter and raised money to try and make that happen! Some of our non-endangered animal lessons included a lot of Language Arts activities. We played a “rhyme basket” game and a syllable game. We took time writing and recognizing letters some of us get tricked by (especially lower case d, b, q, and p). We played around with volume at the sand and water table and walked around the school picking up trash for Project Green. We played 11-20 number bingo and are working hard to make sure we are counting correctly (13, 14, 15,16,17,18 is tricky to say!). Some of our favorite activities for the week were working together to write a story called, “How We Saved Endangered Animals” and drawing pictures of our favorite otter; dramatic play was also a big hit for all!

Chameleon

This week in the Chameleon class we have been talking about trees in honor or Arbor Day on Friday, April 30. We read the story The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstien, we talked about all the benefits trees have to the environment, and trees were also the subject of our art work this week. We also talked about the parts of a tree and did rubbings of the bark. We also wrote and illustrated a class book about trees.  Our letter of the week is Ii; we came up with words starting with I for our word wall and practiced writing them in our journal. For Project Green, we read The Zorax and did an experiment to learn about carpooling and smog. For Dramatic Play we ran our own book store and library. Thanks to all the Chameleon parents who helped out with the recycling contest. The Chameleons were the winners with 158 recycled items!!

BABBLE

April 16, 2010

Sunscreen Reminder:

Understand that Bright Beginnings does not provide or apply sunscreen. It is recommended that sunscreen is applied liberally in the morning before arrival.  If you would like to have sunscreen added after nap, before going out to play please sign the sunscreen permission form.  Make sure the sunscreen has a current expiration date that is visible.

Some classroom reminders:

·       All children need top and bottom sheet for nap time.

·       If your child is under the age of 3 please be sure that when packing lunch that apples, grapes, and hotdogs are pre-sliced.

·       Items must be labeled with your child’s name.  If the items are not labeled staff members will do it for you.

What’s happening at Preschool (lots of fun)

We had a special guest reader today.  Do you remember Madeline?  I bet your child can tell lots about her!  She came by today and read several books to the children.  They loved it! 

We are working on our Pizza Garden.  The soil is ready for planting.  We’ve started some tomatoes in the classroom. We are looking for more donations of green peppers, onions, mixed flowers, oregano, basil and tomatoes. 

Come join in the fun April 23 Children’s Night Out with Ms. Ashley and Ms. Kristin T.  They will be Singing in the Rain!

Weekly Financial Reminders

Spring cleaning? Children’s Night Out is a great way to have some extra hours to yourself to get things done around the house. Check out the yearly calendar for upcoming dates and sign up at the front desk!

Simply your life with Automatic Credit Card payments for tuition.  Complete an authorization form and we'll take care of the rest!

Monkey

This week in the Monkey Room, we are very excited for the nature walks that we are going to be taking! We will be going out to the playground to look for bugs, birds, sticks, leaves, and anything else we can find! For art this week we will be making tissue butterflies, beehives, ants, coffee filter butterflies and bees! We are practicing our flashcards daily and everyone is improving! We are also going to be using the sensory table and doing some water play!

Giraffe

I hope everyone enjoyed Spring Break. This week the Giraffes will be learning about butterflies. They will study what they eat, colors, and where to find them. We will also continue to talk about the Spring Season. Observing plants and insects outdoors and enjoying watching our windmills spin in the wind. We will also have a cooking project on Friday. Yum Yum!

Lion

This week the Lions having been talking about spring. We have been talking about the insects we see outdoors. Our Art this week included a beehive, tissue paper butterflies, squish art, umbrellas and an ant hill. We have also enjoyed observing our vegetable sprouts and can’t wait until we can plant them outdoors in our pizza garden. We have been working on writing the letter E in our journals, practicing letter recognition, and shape recognition. For Math this week we have been using flowers with numbers to count the butterflies and bumblebees.

Elephant

This week is all about butterflies, bees, and other insects that fly. We talked about how they can fly and how they are different from crawling bugs. We are still working on writing our names and cutting with scissors, writing our letters, and some math skills. The letter of the week is E and we have came up with lots of E words, and are recognizing more letters!

Tigers

This week the Tigers read books about butterflies and honey bees. We are starting to see a few of our creepy crawly friends now that spring is in the air. Math we used our number flash cards to review numbers 1-10. We played the quick number game, 1-2-3 Bingo. The seeds we planted a few days ago are now turning into green plants, can’t wait for the flower to bloom.  We have been talking about recycling and how important it is to our environment. It has been fun looking out our window and sees the many changes all around us. Hope you enjoyed our butterfly and honey bee art. Ask your child who Cookie is in the Tiger class.

Zebra

Our theme for the week was centered around The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. On Monday we read the book and laughed at all the silly food he ate – do caterpillars really eat salami and chocolate cake?! On Tuesday, we discussed the life cycle of a butterfly and learned caterpillars eat leaves. Some of our other circle activities included extending the book’s story by talking about where the butterfly may have flown off to. We also categorized reality/fantasy which encouraged some critical thinking skills and answering open-ended questions. During Math, we graphed whether or not we’d let a caterpillar crawl on our hands. We calculated the data and used simple addition to tally up the votes. We sorted butterfly cards (starting with one and going all the way to twenty five!). We also made patterns and one-to-one correspondence with a file folder game. For Science, we discovered the difference between a cocoon and a chrysalis and tried to figure out how a sponge holds water at the sensory tub. Art was super fun! We made art inspired by Eric Carle’s illustrations. Projects included tissue paper butterflies, coffee filter butterflies in a chrysalis, painting the hungry caterpillar, and drawing the food we’d eat if we were hungry caterpillars. We’ve been working extra hard with our writing skills – some of us are beginning to write our full names and a lot of us are identifying sight words!

Chameleon

For the month of April, the Chameleons will be talking about bugs, and we will focus on Eric Carle books each week dealing with bugs. This week, we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. With this story, we discussed the repetitive language found in the book. We talked about the life cycle of a butterfly, and we practiced our days of the week. We also worked on our math skills by graphing our favorite healthy foods and whether or not we would let a caterpillar crawl on our hand – most Chameleons said they would. We also retold the story using a felt board to practice our sequencing skills. For art, we made tissue butterflies, coffee filter butterflies, beehive collages, and ant art. Don’t forget to ask a Chameleon the difference between spiders, worms, and insects. I bet you’ll be surprised! We also worked on the letter of the week, which is Ee in our journals this week. We also practiced phonemic awareness by writing how we thought the word butterfly is spelled with inventive spelling. We also were the authors and illustrators of our own bug book this week. We were also busy in the kitchen this week. We made Very Hungry Caterpillar fruit pizza, yum! With Earth Day coming up this month, we also discussed recycling, caring for the environment, and protecting nature for Project Green. For Humanities, we played cooperative games outside and indoors and acted out The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We also celebrated Ryan Delp’s birthday and April as Poetry Month by reading poems from “Where the Sidewalk Ends”. We are also going to work on writing and remembering some poems of our own.