March 26th - March 30th

Butterflies, Ladybugs and Bees Oh My....

 

We will continue to study the life cycle of the butterfly and then start our unit on ladybugs and bees.  Last Friday, we released 4000 ladybugs into our garden....watch out aphids!  My MWF friends had a great time playing with them and than sharing their observations with the class.  We will compare these with the observations we made about the earth worms last week and then compile this information into a Venn diagram.  Your kiddos are so smart!  By the way...no they won't completely grasp this concept, but it is a wonderful opportunity to expose them to some higher level learning.  I like to call it planting a mind bomb. 

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Next Wednesday, the MWF class, along with the other Wednesday classes  will have a breakfast picnic/egg hunt and the Rail Road Park (Scottsdale Rd. and Indian Bend). All parents and siblings are of course welcome!   We will meet at the playground area at 9:30 for play and pot luck snack.  Then at 10:15ish we will have a HUGE and WONDERFUL egg hunt! This is what you need to do/bring:

• 12 plastic filled eggs...taped shut - no chocolate please
•      If your younger children would  like to participate in the egg hunt, please bring 12 eggs for them as well. 
• Sign up for a snack - available on Monday, March 26th

Don't forget the sunblock! 

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Don't worry if you are in my Tuesday/Thursdays class...we will have a special day on Thursday and have our own egg hunt!  Please bring 12 plastic filled eggs (taped shut).  We will have our egg hunt somewhere on campus....

Also for both classes.....don't worry about your egg basket....we will make one in class! 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

-Kate

March 19th - March 23rd

Our wooly pockets have been installed!  They look amazing.  We will spend next week preparing and planting them.  The salad garden in the raised bed is coming along nicely.   We will celebrate the additions to our garden on Saturday, April 14th with our Garden Party.  We will have a silent auction to raise additional funds for our worm composter, market umbrellas for our outside tables and some additional garden curriculum.  If you have had an opportunity to obtain an item for the auction, please drop it off with Amy in the office.

Weekly Topics

• Worms
• Butterflies

March 12th-March 16th

Welcome back to school...welcome back to spring!

Did we have a winter?  If we did perhaps I hibernated through it.  Anyhow, out with the old and in with the new, right?  Hope everyone had a wonderful spring break. I am ready to see all my friends and head into the home stretch of another school year.  I can't believe it's already the middle of March...time flies, we must be having fun.

We will start our month long theme of spring, flowers, and bugs.  We will have an emphasis on bees and lady bugs since that is our class themes for our Garden Party scheduled for Saturday, April 14th. 

This week we will learn all about flowers and spend Thursday and Friday having some green shamrock fun.  Hope the leprechaun doesn't try and trick us! 

Helpful reminders.

Registration for next school year is still available
If your child is doing stay n' play, please apply sunscreen. 
If you child brings a drink to school to keep in their cubbie, please make sure it is in a no spill cup and that it is water only.

Thanks!  Have a great day and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow or Tuesday!