I am absolutely celebrating all the trees that are blooming in my yard, and the electricity that has returned to my house after my long week channelling my inner Laura Ingalls Wilder. I’m hoping that we can transition out of the long winter and into spring and more time outside. I’m dreaming of reading books on a quilt with the Meow Cats and planting some seeds in our secret garden outside our window.
If you haven’t signed up for our Under the Water Camp on May 28-June 1, please do so on Monday. If I don’t have ten children, I’m going to open the camp up to the Brilliant Butterfly class on Tuesday. If you are out of town on Monday for the holiday, I’m willing to pro-rate the camp for four days. I’m thinking more about ways to play with water, what is water made of, who lives in water, watermelon, mermaids, sprinkler fun, water art, water conservation, and the states of matter.
Quick Housekeeping Announcements:
- If your child isn’t going to be at school please call or email us in the morning… or the night before. We do a final roll at ten, and one of our teachers has to call you and check on your child.
- Spring may be here, but make sure that your child has a jacket and gloves in their cubby. They love their own so much more than they love ours. Rain boots that can live at school give us more freedom to explore the mud!
This week we have continued to talk about our bodies and how they work. The Meow Cats have loved the poems in The Blood Hungry Spleen. I have loved talking to them about their brains, their hearts, the circulatory system, and the digestive system. This Wednesday we will put together our traced bodies with the organs that we have made. I love listening to their theories about how their bodies work, and how they are put together. We talked about our blood cells and the way that some deliver oxygen and how some battle bad bugs in our bodies when we are sick.
On Thursday we will start talking about Space. Remember how our Seuss machine made things… like the universe. Simultaneously, we are going to focus on writing our names in many different ways. As we seem to careen towards the end of the school year we are also talking about what might be different in the Brilliant Butterflies classroom and things they might do next year. We’ll practice a few of their organizational concepts until the end of school.
