HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MRS. "B"!

Mrs. "B" was pleasantly surprised with all of her birthday goodies!  The children were SO excited to present Mrs. "B" with her gifts.

 Happy Birthday, Mrs. "B"!

CATERPILLARS, BUTTERFLIES, AND MOTHS--OH MY!

Today, Ms. King (Director or CASE and Special Programs), visited our classroom to share her knowledge of the life cycle of a butterfly.  She had wonderful visuals and activities to involve the class in learning more about butterflies and moths.

  

 ~learning the different body parts of a butterfly...

 Ms. King had some amazing close-up, magnified photos of the different body parts of a butterfly.  Be sure to ask your child what body parts are in the photos below......

~antenna~

 ~foot~

 ~proboscis~

 ~eye~

~The photo below are close-up photos of the scales on a butterfly's wings.

 ~Be sure to ask your child how he/she knows the monarch butterfly in the photo below is a male butterfly.

 ~Ms. King taught us the differences between butterflies and moths. 

 

 ~Ms. King explained to us how butterflies see color.  They don't see color the same way people do.  The colors they see are ultraviolet.

 

~Ms. King had a special ultraviolet light that she shined on our clothes to determine if a butterfly could see the color.

STATION ROTATIONS

This week's Station Rotations include....

....building in the construction zone.

...coloring a cover page for our Pre-K Alphabet Memory Books.

...Sudoku using unifix cubes.

...caterpillar measuring.

 

STAR OF THE WEEK~AMYA!

Today we learned more about our friend, Amya, including her favorite food~pizza and her favorite animal~an elephant.  Amya also shared some wonderful photos with us.  Thank you for sharing more about yourself with us, Amya!

STATION ROTATIONS

This week's Station Rotations include...

...painting a part of an egg carton that we will turn into caterpillars.

...choosing tasks from "Activity Shelf".

...illustrating a dictating a story about Spring at the Writing Center.

...listening to a story about the life cycle of a butterfly and then drawing pictures of the different stages of the life cycle that we will make into a quilt.

ZERO THE HERO DAY!

Today we celebrated our 140th day of school!  Nick and his mom provided us with a great project to help us celebrate.  We put together the body and wings of a butterfly using circles (the shape of a zero).

Thanks for a great activity to help us celebrate!

PARTNER READING

Last Friday, we read our "Books In A Bag" with a classmate, instead of the teacher.  The children did a nice job reading their book to a partner and then listening to their partner read to them.