Our fuzzy little caterpillar friends are ready to go through their metamorphasis soon! Tuesday afternoon, the Pre-K Polar Bears got to see the caterpillars start curling and turning themselves to get ready to make their chrystalis. It was so amazing to see this! Everyday, all the children are so excited to see how much the caterpillars are changing. I love to see the wonderment in their eyes. What a great miracle this is! And to think we get to watch it regularly with our own eyes. God is so good!
YOUR children are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
I wanted to share a great learning opportunity I experienced with your children the other day. I tell parents in all classes that I am amazed at the questions the children come up with. As you know, we have been learning extensively about the season of spring and all that comes with it...the weather, worms, plants, new life, flowers, and of course butterflies. Last Thursday, during circle time, the Polar bear students and I were talking about what the farmers do in the spring when one of the students raised their hand and asked, "Where does food come from?" We starting talking about all different kinds of foods and how they are grown. Another student raised their hand and asked, " What about bread...where does bread come from." WOW! So that got us started about wheat and all that goes into bread. We have also been studying the author Eric Carle. Mr. Carle wrote a book called "Pancakes, Pancakes". In this book, a boy wants pancakes but learns the extensive process that goes into the ingredients for pancakes. On Friday, we read the book and made our own pancakes! What great questions!! Thanks to your little ones for these great teachable moments! I love it! And thanks to Mrs. Sutton for the pancake mix;)New prayers!
I hope your children are enjoying some of the new prayers we started learning; one being the Super Hero Snack Prayer. Ask them to sing it for you if they haven't already done so. Penguins and Pre-K Polar Bears will learn the Hail Mary during Our Lady's Month of May.Community Helper Visit on Wednesday
We will be have two retired postwomen coming in to talk with us about the community helpers of Mailman! These ladies are wonderful and I hope the children will take lots of knowledge about this very important person of our community.Next Weeks Theme:
We break off the "spring" theme" and go onto the theme of butterflies for the last week of April! Just in time as our caterpillars start the miracle of their change.We will haveofficially finished the "Letter of the Week" next week. For Seals and Penguins, I will continue to review letters emphasizing on letter sounds much more. For the Polar Bears, I will start blends. We will work on "sh", "ch", "th" and "ph" over the last few weeks.
Special Me for next week is......(drum roll please....) ADAM TUCKER!
Concluding thoughts:
As the weather continues the "hot, cold, hot, cold..." yoyo temps, I encourage you to continue to throw and sweater or sweatshirt in your child's backpack. It does seem a bit colder down in the preschool wing since we are in the basement level. Have a great week!Blessings,
Mrs. Burd and Mrs. Bloom
