Week of March 25-28, 2013

Week of March 25-28, 2013

Theme: Bunnies and chicks

No letter this week

Our last week of dinosaurs was so much fun. The children made some fossils which are drying in the classroom and will be sent home next week. We matched upper and lowercase dinosaur eggs and baby dinosaurs. The children followed a maze to have the dinosaur find the bones and completed a dot-to-dot dinosaur. We had fun using finger paint to paint a dinosaur and we made dinosaur headbands. We wore our dinosaur headbands to do some dinosaur movement activities. All week was Right to Read week and the theme was Reading Laboratory so we did several science experiments. We placed gobstoppers in water and watched the color soak up, however, the colors stayed separate and did not mix in the water. We placed a half of a bar of soap in the microwave and saw how it changed form but there was no chemical change. We watched a color absorption experiment that made color water travel up a paper towel to another cup and then mixed colors. 

Next week we will be talking about bunnies and chicks as we get ready for spring. We will be counting jellybeans into numbered plastic eggs and using plastic bunny scissors to pick up plastic eggs. We are going to do an egg matching egg hunt and will also do an egg relay. We are going are going to make an decorate egg using shaving cream and paint which should be fun. We will also be following directions to put together either a bunny or a chicken foam frame.  Both a.m. and p.m. classes will be getting together with their third grade buddies to read a bunny story and make a bunny craft. We will read several books including: The Easter Egg, The Easter Bunny's Assistant and The Runaway Bunny.

We have adjusted our letter of the week schedule because we have decided not to do a letter of the week next week. Instead, Show and Share next week will be something that represents spring. The letter of the week will begin again on the week of April 11th with the letter W. A revised schedule of Show and Share will come home with your child on Monday.

Upcoming important dates: March 29-April 7th Spring Break. School resumes April 8th.