Dear families,
I hope you are having a wonderful start to your weekend! The weather is beautiful!
This week was another busy one! The words of the week are DID and SOME. We had a wonderful trip to Reptilia, and the children saw so many small and big reptiles! Thank you so much to our parent volunteers: the wonderful moms of Evelyn, Casey and Reina! They did a follow up activity with their reading buddies, drawing turtles and other reptiles.
The children also enjoyed going to the Scholastic Book Fair in the Library.
We have started to learn about how plants grow (after the pistol has been pollinated by the pollen on the stamen and then makes seeds!), and the children have all filled their empty eggs with potting soil and planted a sunflower seed. We are tracking what happens to them each day. We also planted a sunflower seed in a little sealed bag with soil and water (like a mini terrarium). This sunflower seed pollinated quickly! A bpacket of sunflower seeds is in your child's mail bag to plant at home!
We also learned about pollination and bees. The children watched short educational videos about pollinators and parts of flowers, and they are taking a closer look at a real tulip and the pollen on the stamen. Then they are putting a bit of white glue on a diagram of a bee, and then sprinkling "pollen" on the bee's legs. They also did a dot-to-dot number picture of a bee hive.
The children also enjoyed taking apart a big Paper Wasp nest, and looking at the "cells" inside. We also looked at their friends through a view finder to see how insects see, with compound eyes. Then they drew their friends faces many times, just like an insect would see.
The children really enjoyed playing "Hangman" with Mrs. Mosun, guessing the names of different insects. We also compared insects and spiders. The children will finish their Insect Inquiry and folders when we come back next week.
Have a wonderful weekend!
