May 5

Over the last few weeks, we have been reading several Eric Carle books and doing some activities with them.  Eric Carle uses an interesting technique for making his pictures.  He paints tissue paper and then cuts all his shapes and pictures from the painted tissue.  We tried this in the classroom and had a ton of fun making our own artwork!

We have been practicing addition and subtraction in many different ways.  A fun math game that we out into our math centers is a popcorn game.  Ask your child about this!  We have been reviewing many math concepts such as greater than/less than/equal to, breaking apart numbers, patterns, 3D shapes, and many others!

We have also been learning a lot about insects and plants.  We planted seeds and have been watching them grow for the last couple of weeks.  We also got our caterpillars and watched them grow from 5 mm to 35 mm and now they have changed into chrysalises.  We are excited to see what happens next!

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks of school!

Here are some of our creations from recyclables on Earth Day.

Artwork in the style of Eric Carle

Math fact flowers

We planted seed and they have started growing! Your child will be bringing them home this week to be planted in a larger pot or garden!

Or caterpillars turned into chrysalises. When we came back from the weekend today, 2 of our butterflies have hatched! We got to hold the butterflies and let them fly around the room.  We will post pictures of this soon!

Today we made pictures of our own bug jar! We will be writing facts we learned about specific bugs today too!