Week of April 10-14

Dear families,

What an exciting week it has been! On Monday, the children enjoyed a terrific performance about fairy tales by the Dufflebag Theatre; on Tuesday it was the Spring Craft Party; on Wednesday it was Pink Day and today was Blue and White Day! Thank you so much to the moms of Mia, Riley, Jackson, Phoebe, Sebastian and William who made wonderful crafts with the kids and brought tasty snacks too!

This week on our Ocean Inquiry we learned about Jelly Fish bio-luminescence, Portuguese Man-o-War, where sand comes from |(Video: The Amazing Life of Sand) and what we can do with it, and the Great Barrier Coral Reef. We watched a scallop swimming, learned to identify the cowrie, conch, cone, scallop, olive, turkey wing, murex and bear claw sea shells, learned how an oyster makes a pearl, and tasted real sea weed! We also watched a live video feed of the Monterrey Aquarium, watching a kelp forest, jellyfish, and sharks. The kids asked terrific questions about ocean life, inspired n=by all of this! In the Computer Lab, Miss. Santiago showed the kids videos about the coral reef. They also used a kid-safe version of Google called KIDSREX.

Thank you so much to: Henry who brought in a real fish fossil; Andrew who brought in a 100 million year old shark tooth; Hudson who brought in his penguin from Chile; Maya who shared her clown fish; Maddie who shared her duck; and Hannah's mom who read Beauty and the Beast! What a great week it was.

We also continued our inquiry into 3D shapes. I enourage the children to look for and identify 3D shapes they see.

The words of the week were WAS and I'M. Thank you so much to Ruby who collated the Scholastic Orders. They are due on May 15.

That's the news for this week. Next week we will complete our ocean inquiry and will continue our learning about 3-D Shapes.

I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend!