Happy Valentine's Day!

Today was our Valentine's Day Party! We enjoyed a picnic lunch outside, frosted heart cookies, and exchanged Valentine's cards with each other. My favorite part of the party was when each child gave out their cards and wished each other a Happy Valentine's Day. Their cards were all so cute. As always, we had a FUN time celebrating together! Happy Valentine's Day!!

Heart Candy Graph

Today we each opened up a box of conversation heart candy and made a graph! First we sorted out all the colors. Next we matched the candy up to the graph and placed them in the appropriate boxes. Then we colored in our graph which gave us a nice visual of which candy we had the most of and which candy we had the least of. And of course, we had to eat the candy in the end! The kids really had a fun time learning about graphing and practicing counting too.

Groundhog's Day

Today is Groundhog's Day! Punxsutawney Phil did NOT see his shadow this morning so we have an early Spring on it's way! We all went outside (in the freezing cold) to measure our shadows and see how they change as the sun moves across the sky. We drew a line with chalk first thing in the morning. Then we came back a few times throughout the day to see that our shadow had moved. This is our Winter/Spring graph. Each child colored in one square, either Winter or Spring, letting us know what they hope the weather would be. The graph shows that winter is the vote for today. However, yesterday we unanimously voted for spring?!

Tomorrow we will enjoy playing 'Shadow Tag' outside IF it is a little warmer than in the 30s!!! Happy Groundhog's Day!

Student of the Week...Kenzie!!

Birthday: July 8
Favorite Book: It's Pajama Time
Favorite Food: Spaghetti
Favorite Animal: Monkey
Person I Admire: Kate
What I Like Most About School: My Teacher
My Wish: To Play in My Bucket Swing
Something I Do Well: Get Dressed

Student of the Week...Carly!!

Born: March 9

Favorite Animal: elephant

Person I admire: Kim

Favorite Thing About School: playing outside

Favorite Food: waffles

Favorite Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

My Wish: for flowers

Something I do Well: Playing with my pup

S is for Sock Puppet

Check out these adorable little sock puppets we made...wiggly eyes, ribbon ears, a button nose, spots, antennas, yarn hair, even a ribbon tongue. The kids put on their puppets and had little puppet shows with each other...very cute.

The Itsy-Bitsy Snowman

Today we made these adorable snowmen for our art project. We then learned a song called "The Itsy-Bitsy Snowman" (sung to the tune of Itsy-Bitsy Spider). It goes like this:

The Itsy-Bitsy Snowman was standing in the snow.

Down came some flakes--it made the snowman grow.

Out came the sun to shine its golden rays.

Which warmed the little snowman and melted him away.

The kids can sing it to you along with some fun little motions that go with it...just ask them!