The Blue Whales had a wonderful week together. We talked about rainbows, colors, leprechauns and St. Patrick’s Day. A few Blue Whales worked together to paint an amazing giant rainbow that we hung on the loft. There were a few friends that stayed with the project through all the colors, but many friends joined at different times and it was wonderful to see the cooperation, organization and collaboration among the children. This further developed into using our hands and feet to paint with and they enjoyed this new sensation and different way to create art. They were so excited to see their rainbow hanging up in the classroom. We added some rain drops, a sun and a cloud made by our Blue Whale friends.
We read the book How to Catch a Leprechaun and came up with ideas on how to build our leprechaun traps. Then it was recycled fun as each child put together their own creation to catch a leprechaun. It was so wonderful to see so much focus on their traps and collaboration as some friends worked together. We will see on Monday if we caught a leprechaun and what the leprechaun does to our classroom.
Our science experiment was a success as we watched celery stalks and leaves turn the colors of the rainbow. We also learned a new word, osmosis, and will talk about it more when we get to the topic of plants in April.
Yesterday was day 90 of school so the 100th day of school is almost here! We will be celebrating our 100th Day of School on Tuesday, April 9th. We will have fun with 100 Day activities and a celebration. More details will be coming soon.
Blue Whale alum, Kennedy, joined us and read a fun Pigeon book to the class. The Blue Whales enjoyed the story and asking Kennedy questions.
We had Guess-n-Tell and Juliette did a great job with three clues about her item and calling on friends to guess her item. The Blue Whales were able to guess Juliette’s item because of her great clues.
Important Upcoming Dates:
Thursday, March 28th: Easter Egg Hunt (Please bring in 6 filled eggs by Wednesday, March 27th – please fill the eggs with non-candy items)
Friday, March 29th – Friday, April 5th: Spring Break, Preschool Closed
Tuesday, April 9th: 100th Day of School Celebration
Wednesday, April 17th: Individual and Class Photos (We will not put out messy materials that day, in case anyone plans to wear anything special.)
Sunday, April 21st: Preschool Sunday, where we celebrate the Christ Church Preschool ministry. Our preschool children will sing at the 9:00 service. Everyone is invited!
Tuesday, April 30th: Field Trip to Morehead Planetarium. We will be taking the city bus and each child is allowed one chaperone. This is such a fun event to extend our learning about space. More details will follow as we get closer to the date.
We will do an egg drop on Wednesday, March 20th and Thursday, March 21st. Each child will need to bring in a raw egg in a ziploc bag by Wednesday, March 20th. We could always use recycled items that could help protect an egg from being broken when it is dropped. Feel free to bring any recycled items or loose parts by Tuesday, March 19th to help with our project.
Ms. Beth and I loved talking to our parents at conferences about all our wonderful Blue Whales and strengthening our school/home relationship. Thank you for taking the time to meet with us.
We are enjoying creating, moving, singing, discussing, observing, reading and playing with our Blue Whale friends. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.