Insects, moms and ourselves...

This week we began a new  science unit - the insect life cycle. We learned that all insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts. We included some of our new learning about insects in our new May journals. We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and drew the setting, the main character and the beginning, middle and ending of the story. We had fun balloon painting some big caterpillars of our own!

This week we began listening to a chapter book! We are listening to Charlotte's Web and learning to create pictures and images in our head as we listen to the author describe places and characters. So far, we love it! I especially like that students are recognizing the different feelings and zones that Wilber, the pig, experiences.
On Friday we were super excited when our caterpillars arrived! They are 3/4 inch long and we see evidence of molting (shedding skin) and eating. We think they were eating on their journey here and grew so that their skin was too tight, so they had to molt. We made predictions about what they will look like/do by Monday.

We worked as a group to find adjectives to describe one another and then we described ourselves...this was a very positive activity and the children loved hearing the words their classmates used to describe them. Stop by to look at our board when you come for our Parent Support Group Meeting next Tuesday at 6:15. This is our last meeting and will be held in our classroom.

We are working hard on our poem and songs for the Coping Skill Celebration. We hope that many of you will join us - Tuesday, June 2 at 2:00 in the media center. 

Finally, we created a special Mother's Day gift for all of our moms. It was made with love and we hope you will all enjoy it. I would like to send a special wish to all of our moms to have a wonderful Mother's Day - thank you all for sharing your children with me! 

Thank you for all of the flowers, gifts and cards this week for staff appreciation week. It was lovely and greatly appreciated by all of us! We love working with your children!