Planting Day

The class is excited about planting

Zoey started morning work

with coloring

Harrison started with play doh

Harrison, JJ and Levi

playing the

Life Cycle of a Butterfly game

Lyla joined in on the coloring

Harrison came over to color...

Lyla noticed Zoey is left handed

So they were discussing which hand

they like to use... Lyla tried using her left hand and noticed

she can not write with as much pressure(or as she said---when I use this hand

it looks really light)

Harrison joined in the conversation --trying both hand out 

to see which one felt better to him

I love observing natural conversation

between preschoolers.....

I had a few kids work on their journals..

We are journaling 

the Life Cycle of A

Butterfly.....

We have had our caterpillars for 7 days now...

somewhere between day 7-12 they

will work their way to the top and

form a J then build their chrysalis

Landon and Luke enjoying

the insect flannel board pieces

Beckett writing in his journal

Our 2 LHS helpers today

Emma Oswald(my daughter)

and Kayla Fieberkorn

They got a few things prepped for us..

moving brick to put in the 

bottom of our troughs

MORNING MEETING

Nora was attendance helper

2 friends not at school today

15 friends here

Harrison volunteered to be

our invocation leader

The Road to Emmaus

Today's Helpers

OUTSIDE

A few friends at a time got to help move 

dirt, rocks and recylcables

into the trough to help fill space and also

help with drainage...

** huge thank you for recycling donations-

it was perfect and we had a few bottles leftover

so I added them to our

creation recycling and the kids were already enjoying

creating with them.....

walking from our playground

to the pineyard

Harrison and JJ were excited to see

Audrey, Harrison's sister

Filling the huge troughs...

Lyla and Aavya playing

with a rolly polly(we talk about

being gentle!!)

We got fresh topsoil..

the kids were so happy

and excited 

Over on the pineyard the kids were 

helping loosen

the dirt we moved from the

troughs before spring break

My daughter, Emma from Lutheran High

and Sue, Mrs Cooper's MIL, also helped

LOTS of hard work

but they loved it!

Oaklynn was our librarian

the book she chose

Levi was weather helper

Zoey was prayer leader

Lyla was snack manager

snack

Lyla getting her

estimation jar ready

Phonics ABC

Landon was teacher assistant

JJ was our entomologist....

The caterpillars are working their way up to the top..

very close to making their "J's"

we will have chrysalis soon

Lyla brought stuffies...

Giving a few hints... I told the class when they guess (estimate)today

look at the size of the stuffies..they take up more room....

so it may not be as big of a number

10 .....

The children are liking the dress up

wings I have for dramatic play

BUT

of course when you are wearing wings---you need to RUN!!

Which makes it a little challenging during center time

SO I was trying to think of a way to make it OK 

to run when wearing the insect wings....

NEXT week I think we will make our own

wings..

the first picture is a rain gauge BUT we could use a similar

shape or the next picture is an example of

butterfly wings....

I will put more info in my Friday note

CENTER TIME

Zoey putting on the 

ladybug wings

NOW for the planting...

I wish we had more area to plant

 because everyone

wanted to do more than one..

I will get pictures of the finished

troughs and put in our Friday note..

our day flew by....

a few friends helped transport water....

Millie was our

superintendent

Ava was our

exercise leader

she chose sit ups

Harrison had already chosen his

yoga posture and then just started

right into it..

showing us exactly how it is done..

COW POSTURE

Beckett was our

line leader

The goodbye rhyme

he chose