Hello, Friendly Fox Families!
What a lovely gift this warm weather has been! We have enjoyed extending our Entomology unit into this week with all the opportunities to see real insects in action outdoors. We have been closely watching both of our monarch chrysalises, and are looking forward to their emergence! We have been finding real insects on the playground, and enjoying watching the dragonflies and butterflies migrate over our meadow!
We had dragonfly day on Monday and learned lots of interesting things, including that they have been around since before the dinosaurs! We made beautiful stained glass dragonflies for our windows. We had ladybug day on Tuesday and played a fun ladybug dice rolling/spot counting game and made fun spotted ladybugs with flapping wings. We had bee day on Wednesday and learned lots of interesting things about them, including practicing the waggle dance that honeybees do to communicate with one another and making our own beehives and bees. Thursday was Mo Willems day! He has been our author of the month, so we have read many of his wonderful books, one of which was, “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” and made our own pigeons to put in our giant bus! Friday was Arachnology day because we know that spiders *are not* insects! We discussed many differences between spiders and insects. We learned a lot, such as the names of their body parts, and that they smell through their legs! We played with some spiders and made beautiful watercolor webs and added a special spider rhyme to our special journals. You can always take a look at these with your child when you visit. We have continued to sing our special butterfly song this week and we are learning the sign language to go along with it– the children are loving this! We’ve had fun with all of these activities and so much more.
Next week will be Ornithology week and I have lots of fun bird activities planned.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful children with us!
Wynne
Wisdom begins with wonder
