This week, as we prepare to celebrate Earth Day, we read “The World and Everything In It” by Kevin Henkes. This book talks about what is in the world - the big, small and medium things - and invites us to notice the natural objects around us. We talked about caring for the earth by picking up trash and sorting waste into the compost and recycling. We observed three rocks from our rock garden using our senses of sight and touch, and wrote down their qualities. We also thought of things in our lives that matter to us and sorted them into the categories of small, medium and big.
We continued to play outdoors and indoors, enjoying the warm weather! We took care of our bodies by taking frequent water bottle breaks and practicing applying sunscreen using a mirror outdoors. Friends observed the spring flowers in the garden, practiced hanging clothes from a clothesline, and piled rocks into hollowed-out sponges, calling them “sacks of potatoes.”
We continued to work on making portraits of the classroom puppets, focusing this week on drawing our owl puppet, Bill. They noticed that he has spots on his body and debated whether polka dots are a kind of pattern. They drew belly buttons for him, which they called “Bill-y buttons.”
We ended our week by getting to celebrate Theo’s and Graham’s 4th birthdays during a double-birthday read-aloud! Theo’s and Graham’s families came in to share treats and read stories. We loved celebrating all together as a community.
We look forward to seeing many of you at our Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 25! Have a fantastic weekend, everyone.
