Week of 4/8

Dear Honey Bear Room Families,

It’s been a wonderful week in the Honey Bear Room!  The weather has been improving and it’s starting to feel like Spring.
 
Theme This Week:

• Gardening
• The letter V

 
Books We Read:

• The Tiny Seed, by Eric Carle
• Flower Garden, by Eve Bunting

 
Places We Went:

• Library with Lindsay
• The roof and Gym2
• Music

 
Classroom Activities:

• We painted flowerpots and planted string bean seeds.  The Honey Bears can’t wait to see them grow!
• We did a seed grows sequence story, traced and colored a flower and put together a plant parts puzzle. 
• The children counted flowers to match the correct flower pot and used our felt board to tell a gardening story.
• We read a Scholastic Magazine titled Here Comes the Sunflower and the children couldn’t believe how tall sunflowers can get!

 
Highlights:

• The class had a ball making and eating “dirt.”  We made chocolate pudding and combined it with a crushed Oreo and a gummy worm.  What a yummy treat!
• We learned a new song about flowers to the tune of “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.”

Flowers, leaves, stems and roots,
Stems and roots.
Flowers, leaves, stems and roots,
Stems and roots.
Please don’t sneeze,
There’s pollen in the breeze.
Achoo!
Flowers, leaves, stems and roots,
Stems and roots!
 

• Clara Nephew was our Person of the Week.  She did an amazing job telling us about her poster and her family.  Her mom read King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood.  Then we made beaded jewelry with pipe cleaners and beads.  What a fun morning!

 
Looking Forward To:

• Friday, April 19th- No school for Good Friday
• Thursday and Friday, April 25th and 26th - Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Tuesday, May 14th- The Honey Bear Performance of the Little Red Hen
• Friday, May 31st- Trip to Victorian Gardens

 
Have a Terrific Weekend!

The Honey Bear Room Teachers