Important Dates
· Wednesday, March 11th & Thursday, March 12th – Conferences - School is closed for spring conferences. These conferences are for ADULTS ONLY, so feel free to plan with a friend to watch each other’s children on the playground during your conferences.
· Monday, March 30th through Monday, April 6th – Spring Break
· Thursday, April 16th - Spring picture day. We will have both individual and a class photo done.
· Tuesday, April 21st – Planetarium Field Trip (Every child can have one chaperone join them and NO siblings are allowed on the field trip. We will provide more information next week.)
· Wednesday, April 22nd – Blue Whales 100 Day Celebration – look for more information from me and Annie, our Room Parent, about this fun day.
· Wednesday, April 22nd - Casual music program in the fellowship hall. Shortly after drop-off, your child will sing a few songs and play handbells with Ms. Vicki for an audience of parents and special loved ones in Ascension Hall.
Quote of the Week
“Did I miss the fun?” - A Blue Whale’s question after returning to the playground after a quick bathroom break.
The Blue Whales are embracing their morning yoga and it has been a wonderful start to our day.
The Blue Whales have been working hard on rhyming words and opposite words. We played matching games and found our spots in circle time using rhyming words and opposite words. We have also read some great rhyming and opposite books that have led to discussions about all things rhyming and opposites. We talked about positional words and acted out the words using a bear and a cup.
There is some form of order everywhere we look. We talked about it in our visual schedule, in our favorite books and in simple tasks. This week we practiced story order using sequencing cards in small groups. The Blue Whales were so supportive of each other as we learned this new skill.
Sensory fun was had with trays of shaving cream. And we somehow became interested in snakes this week so to scaffold their play, there were materials out to creatively make snakes.
The Blue Whales met Mat Man again this week. Mat Man is a song with pieces that help children learn how to draw a person using shapes. The Blue Whales built Mat Man as they listened to the song. The Blue Whales drew another self-portrait to add to their journal.
We continued our question of the day that focuses on the letters in our names. We are studying the letters through stories, sounds, movements and items that start with the letter. The Blue Whales are practicing identifying, writing and sounding out the letters.
We had Guess & Tell and Jameson did a great job with three clues about his item and calling on friends to guess the item. The Blue Whales were able to guess Jameson’s item because of his great clues.
The Blue Whales learned about the artist Wassily Kandinsky. He painted abstract art using shapes and colors. The Blue Whales were inspired by one of his paintings and the fact that they didn’t have to know what they were creating, just see where the materials and process took their artwork. They created some amazing art.
We read a short biography about Kandinsky and I was reminded by a Blue Whale that this is a true real story. The concepts of fiction and non-fiction have been discussed and they are using that information to sort the books we read into those categories.
Ms. Beth and I look forward to talking to our parents at conferences on Wednesday, March 11th and Thursday, March 12th about all our wonderful Blue Whales and strengthening our school/home relationship. These conferences are for adults only.
Thank you for your recyclable donations. We will gladly accept more recyclables next week for some upcoming projects this month.
We are enjoying creating, moving, singing, discussing, observing, reading and playing with our Blue Whale friends. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
