American Symbols and Dr. Seuss!

We have been learning about some of the symbols for our country. We created these amazing directed drawings of the Statue of Liberty - everyone did such a great job of focusing and following all of the steps! 

We also made Bald Eagles and learned about how eagles hunt. 

We talked about weather and made lambs and lions. We learned that sometimes spring has gentle "lamb" weather and sometimes it has blustery "lion" weather. We had a lot of fun creating our lions...

We began our Dr. Seuss author study with the "Cat in the Hat", "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" and "Green Eggs with Ham". We listened for rhyming words - rhyming words are an important reading concept. 

We have been working on becoming flexible thinkers. Flexible thinkers are real problem solvers...when something doesn't go their way, they "change their plan". You can encourage your child to think of alternate things if their plan doesn't work, and praise them when they are flexible thinkers!

Next week we will finish up our Dr. Seuss author study and begin a very big fairy tale unit! 

We were excited to learn that the WL Foundation for Excellence has awarded us a mini-grant to use for a field trip to the Outdoor Education Center! We are so appreciative and excited! 

***We are in need of more canisters of Lysol or Clorox type wipes. We use a lot of these to wipe off tables after lunch and at the end of the day.