On the first day, we celebrated a birthday, so your student was offered a cupcake at snack time, participated in making a birthday book, and went home with a goody bag. We read a few of my favorite stories too - Pete the Cat: Rockin in My School Shoes and The Kissing Hand. We had lots of fun getting to know each other and exploring all of the cool things to do at recess.
Yesterday we had our first Wild Wednesday! On Wednesdays we do not have a special, so we will use our specials time to do an outdoor/nature-based activity. We read the story Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane, and we spent time in "Fairy Village" collecting and sorting materials and building cool fairy houses and animal forts.
Today we went caterpillar crazy! We created cartoon-type caterpillars to decorate our science area. We also used magnifying glasses to observe real painted lady caterpillars, and we recorded our observations in scientists' notebooks. It was awesome!
I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend!
~Jess Willard