May 4, 2009

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast together and met our new student intern, Ms. Mercer. She'll be with us for the next two weeks. Welcome! After we ate we worked with counting birthday candles/cakes, built structures with Legos, clipped clothespins on boards, created structures with magnets, and painted grass on a big white piece of paper. We started at the top of the paper and did big green lines down (just like when we're writing letters!!). During circle time we determined that it's windy today, felt a fan on our faces, counted to 4 during calendar (we don't know what our pattern will be for this month, but it starts with blue, white, black, blue...hmmmm), danced to "Bear Hunt", and I read a book called "Butterfly, Butterfly" to introduce our new unit. This month we are going to learn about insects. The book had many, many insects and we're going to create them and make a wonderful garden scene on our bulletin board. We played outside with our Pre-K friends. I read a book called "Inch by Inch" today for story time. I had little pretend inch worms and a big tape measure (pictured). As I read the book we took turns measuring different things in the book. We also measured different parts of our bodies (nose, ear, finger, foot, smile). In art center today we all created worms to add to our garden. We mad big ones, medium ones and little ones. We predicted which one would have a bigger number of inches and then we measured them. We did great math today! We had lunch and played on the playground with Pre-K. After rest we'll go to Pre-K and continue working on the concept of symmetry.
Have a wonderful night, everyone!
Kali Parsons

Just a quick note: I'll be out tomorrow, so there won't be a blog entry. See you Wednesday!