Our Five Day Friends Learned about Polar Bears and Penguins this week!
We had some sensory fun while learning about camouflage!!
We also worked on our counting and graphing skills.
And made super sticky GOOP Polar Bears!
Q is for Quilt!!
We started collecting GOOD DEEDS on Ash Wednesday. We will be collecting them throughout Lent to show Jesus how much we love him. We are off to a wonderful start! We've collected so many already! Ask your kind little one all about it.
We also made very special Cross Eggs to display in our Hallway Gallery Basket. Be sure to check it out next time you visit The Learning Center.
Our Ice Experiment was so COOL!!!
We started with two bowls of ICE.
We kept one outside in the COLD all day. Brrrrr!!!!!
And we kept one inside where it was nice and warm all day.
Then we observed them ALL DAY LONG!!
And guess what happened?!?!
Ask your little scientist all about it!!
When it is too cold to play outside, we play INSIDE!!!
q is for queen... Ask your little munchkin to use their body to form Letter Qq for you, both Big Q and little q!
We read a funny storybook about a snowman that tried everything to warm up... and guess what kept happening to him????
We reenacted the process and came up with our own melty ideas!!
We learned all about taking care of our teeth this week!
We also learned a special tooth brushing song!
Ask your little dentist all about it!
Look what's on loan in our Hallway Gallery!!
It's our Little Piggies and their House stories for all to enjoy!!
Our Five Day Scientist Friends conducted a Penguin Feather Waterproofing EXPERIMENT!
We LOVED Penguin Dances!
And waddling like penguins too!
Making our own Penguin Puppets was so much fun!
We are starting to learn St. Patrick's Day Songs and Dances too!
We conducted a paint mixing experiment!
Can you guess what mixing Black and White together makes?!?!
We learned about rain clouds... and their COLOR!!
When it is too cold to run around outside, we do YOGA inside!!
Weekly Recap: We were SCIENTISTS all week!! Ask your little experimenter all about it! It may have been a short week, but we packed it full of learning FUN!!
A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: We will be learning letter Rr and reading about our Naughtiest Storybook Character yet! We will also be jump starting our March themes and focusing on rainbows this week! Don't forget to wear YOUR FAVORITE Rainbow color on FRIDAY!!! (see Show and Tell reminder below)
IMPORTANT: Please see the Dates to Remember Section Below for some updated, important changes.
This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Letter Rr
Numbers of the Months: Finishing Number 6 and Starting Number 7
Colors of the Months: Finishing up with Red, Pink and Gray / Starting up with Green
Shapes of the Months: Heart / Oval
March Themes: Counting 0-7, Graphing, Friendship, Transportation, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Opposites, Rhyming, St. Patrick's Day, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, Differentiating Sizes, Easter and Signs of SPRING!
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Praying for Others, Good Deeds, Lent and Easter
Show & Tell: Wear your favorite 🌈🌈🌈Rainbow Color 🌈🌈🌈(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, or violet) and bring in something that is your favorite rainbow color to SHOW and TELL our friends about.
Easter Hat Parade: March 31st at 11:00: Please see the notice that came home in your child's folder last week. We can't wait to see what you come up with!!! Here are some examples from last year:
Donations: We are asking for donations of baby wipes and tissue boxes as we are running low on both. (We still have enough disinfecting wipes.) Thank you for your help!!
Dates to Remember:
March 3rd: 🌈Rainbow Color Day: Wear your FAVORITE Rainbow Color to school
March 10th: 🧦Silly Sock Day and Silly Show and Tell
March 16th: 🍀Wear your St Patrick's Day GREEN (Full Day Students: Baked Potato Lunch Fundraiser if interested)
March 8th-10th: 🕮 STS Book Fair
March 17th: NO SCHOOL due to unused snow days (please see Mr. Dunnigan's 2/24 Blog for more information)
March 31st: 🐰11:00am Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt
April 3rd: Rain Date for Easter Hat Parade
April 6th: NOON DISMISSAL- No After School Care
April 7th-16th: No School- Easter Break
April 17th: 🏫School Reopens
Late April/ Early May - Date TBD: PreK-3, PreK-4 and Kindergarten Combined Class Trip: Details currently being worked on... Information coming soon!!
Remaining Eighth Grade Tag Days for the Year:
possibly March 16: St. Patrick’s Day GREEN!
April 21: Favorite Character (book, movie, or show)
May 19: Red, White, and Blue
TBD possibly June 9: Hawaiian (This one may change if our projected last day of school changes due to unused snow days.)
Have a REMARKABLE Week,
Paula Dobres
