Butterflies

This week is all about butterflies and their life cycle!  There are always some very cute art projects with caterpillars and butterflies!

As a science experiment, the Pre-K class decorated coffee filters and then watched the color diffuse to the rest of the coffee filter.  They then turned these into beautiful butterflies!

As a sensory and manipulative activity, theses cuties made a butterfly using pattern blocks!  Such great team work!

How funny is this?!  While talking about the butterfly life cycle, they had one child turn into a chrysalis!

The week wouldn't be complete without reading Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".  The Waddlers and Toddlers made their own caterpillar.  For our cooking project, we made Fruit Dip that the caterpillar might want to eat with all the fruit he enjoyed!

The 2's made a great art project as they learned about how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.

We always have fun talking about symmetry during butterfly week!  These butterflies turned out beautiful and served as a great math lesson for Pre-K!

Our number of the week was 7 so the Waddlers made 7 butterflies using their fingerprints!

We had fun with giraffes, goats, and grapes for our letter of the week! 

Now that we've learned all about the life cycle of a butterfly, we are so excited to get our live caterpillars in to start watching their transformation next week!  We will be sure to post pictures of our butterflies!

My Family and Granola Bars with Grandparents

This week we are talking about our families and all the important people in them!  We are also really focusing on our Grandparents in honor of Grandparent's Day on Sunday!  A lot of our hard work this week went towards special gifts for them but we did squeeze in a few other projects like making a class family tree and letting the children try to draw their family!

We also spent time talking about our letter of week, "F" by making fish, frogs, foxes, and fingerprints!

The projects for the Grandparents turned out so good!  I'm sure they will be quite the prized possession!

On Friday, we invited all the grandparents to come join us for "Granola Bars with Grandparents"!  The children made the granola bars as their cooking project to share with their grandparents!  Our Pre-K class kicked off their special time with a sweet song!

 Take a look at some of our Grandparents and kiddos!  We are so thankful for all these sweet people!

We hope all the grandparents have a very special Grandparent's Day! 

Community Helpers

We are getting ready for a long Labor Day weekend but we are making sure to focus on our Community Helpers first!  We did several great art projects this week as we learned about the different people in our community that help make it a better place to live.  They made a garbage truck from shapes, an ambulance, a doctor bag, a baker who sorted cookies by shape, a letter with the letters of their name for the mailman, and of course a firefighter!  I can't even begin to tell you all the occupations the classrooms discussed! 

Pre-K made a chart as they learned about the different community helpers and what they do for all of us!  They also made a heart and each child gave input to thank a special worker in our community!

The Toddlers made a poster for one of their teacher's friends who is a police officer.  What a sweet gesture!

It is so neat to think what a difference our two hands can make!  We are truly thankful for everyone who uses their hands to make our world a better place!

For our cooking project this week, we pretended to be construction workers and "build" houses- gingerbread houses of course!

Our letter of the week was E.  Some classrooms made "E is for elephant" while others did "E is for Eagle"!  Several classrooms did art activities with our number of the week as well!

We hope you all have an awesome Labor Day weekend!  Enjoy time with family and friends!  Thank you for all you do for our community!