Weekly Greetings!
I trust you all had a pleasant weekend and enjoyed the warmer temperatures. Also, I hope the student gifts and cards made it safely home for Mother's Day. The photos to follow are of the class as they decorated the plant pots to give as an expression of their thanks for all your love and care.
There were some changes to our class routine last week, and a few new additions to the creative play centers. All of the students now go to a structured PE class at the end of the day, so our center time has been moved to an earlier time. With some left over funds from last year's budget, I ordered a "Community Helpers" set and a wooden train set to freshen up the play items for the class. As you can see from the photos, the students really enjoyed the new toys.
To continue our Science Unit title "Changes", which focused on matter and chemical changes that can occur, I brought in an ice cream ball of mine so that the students could observe the changes that would take place in making ice cream. For the ball to work, the mixture is placed in a center cylinder with ice surrounding it. The ball must be kept moving, so of course there were some fun games to be played before we tasted the frozen mixture.
This will be our last full week of school, and there are a couple of special events planned for the end of the week. On Thursday, the Forestry Department will spend the morning doing activities to teach all the students about fire prevention. Then on Friday, we will have the next years Kindergarten group in to spend the morning with us. Hopefully, they will enjoy their time and look forward to the start of a new school year in the fall.
I will continue sending homework Monday through Thursday this week, though it will be the last week this year. Enjoys the spring days that have finally arrived!
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