Week of 4/25 - 4/28

Hi Bumblebees,
It's the end of April already! We are heading into our last month of being Bumblebees -- hard to believe! Enjoy the pictures.

It's all about the letter X this week!
Josue showing us the great X items he brought in the class sound box!
Your child brought home a bright yellow light bulb this week! I hope you hung it somewhere to remind your family to turn off the lights! The kids were really on top of this during the week, even reminding us!
What are some ways you can give the earth a helping hand?
Now that Chester and Ronnie have had a turn to go home with each Bumblebee, they've been coming to the Center Room every day to play with us!
We are still practicing the days of the week and months of the year each day during calendar time. Please continue to review with your kids!
Sammy got to take our letter-of-the-week book home this week. Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss!
We are all gloved up and ready to help our world!
We found a LOT of garbage to pick up!
Yuck!

Look at all the garbage we found!
X is for x-ray
We graphed our weather for April. Sunny won again of course!
Look at all the different kinds of things we can recycle to help our planet Earth! Please have your kids participate in your recycling at home!
Please check this picture to see if your child is responsible for something this weekend. Have fun!
NEXT WEEK:
*The letter Y (please send in a "y" picture in the letter envelope on MONDAY)
*Mother's Day!
*THURSDAY -- all mothers are invited to our Bumblebee Mother's Day tea from 9:00 to 9:30! Thanks to those of you who have RSVP'd already. It looks like we're going to have a full room and lots of delicious food. If you have not returned your RSVP yet, please let us know by Monday if you are coming and what you're bringing. The kids are very much looking forward to your being there!
*THURSDAY -- after the Mother's Day Tea, if you sent in money for your child to decorate a Mother's Day cake from Publix (you would have sent in the money a long time ago), your child will be doing this Thursday morning. If you never sent money, it's too late now, since Publix had to know the amount of needed supplies. Sorry.

Please practice with your child:
*All letters and sounds A through Y

Week of 4/18 - 4/21

Hi Bumblebees,
We're back up and running this week. Sorry about last week! Enjoy the pictures.

Reading Chester & Ronnie's journal about their fun weekend with Zach!
Decorating our Easter crosses (Jesus died AND LIVES for you!!)
Practicing all our letters!
We got to share the pattern we used on our Easter egg with the class

More alphabet review!
Decorating Easter eggs, practicing more patterns
Painting our Easter Bunny ears!
We did ALL the letters we've learned so far again with Alphabet Al!
Thanks for helping your kids with the Easter egg patterns....they look great!
Decorating our Easter "baskets" in preparation for dyeing Easter eggs
We have turned into Easter Bunnies. Good thing we all like carrots!
What a nice, bright sunny day for our Easter bonnet parade!
We were of course the most beautiful class in the parade!
We had so much fun dyeing our real Easter eggs!

Thanks so much to all of you who sent in hard-boiled eggs. Our egg-dyeing was a huge success!
They turn out so cool!
We were fortunate to get a visit from the Trace Academy middle school. They told us the story of Easter
and helped us make "resurrection bracelets." Each different color bead stands for a different part of the Easter story. See if your child can tell you!
Please check this picture to see if your child is responsible for anything this weekend. Have fun!
NEXT WEEK:
*The letter X (please send in a picture of something that starts OR ENDS with the letter X in the letter envelope on MONDAY)
*Earth Day/The Environment

Please practice with your child:
*simple rhyming words
*counting dots on dice
*all letters/sounds A through X
*counting by 10s to 100

Week of 4/4 - 4/7

Hi Bumblebees,
Welcome back! It sounds like you all had a fun Spring Break! Just another couple months and we'll be graduating! Hard to believe this year has gone so fast. Enjoy the pictures.

It's all about the letter V this week!
Matthew showing us all the great items he brought in the class sound box!
Using our arms to make a V with Alphabet Al!
A big thanks to Samantha's mom for coming and helping us with our art projects for the Arts in April event!
Haley got to take our letter-of-the-week book home this week. Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert!
We got a little extra free drawing time due to the bad storms when we couldn't go outside. Good thing we love to draw!
What would you put in your vegetable soup?

Transportation stamps and car tracks....cool!
Vehicle Day! How/where does your vehicle travel?
Fun!
A HUGE thank you to Mackenzie's mom, Mrs. Nancy, and her produce manager, Mr. Anthony, for taking time out of their busy day at Publix to come and share with us about Vegetables!
V is for vegetables!

We got to touch the vegetables...some feel funny!
Thank you so much to Mrs. Nancy, Mr. Anthony, and Publix for helping us learn about vegetables!!
We are still daily practicing counting by 10s to 100. Please practice at home with your child!
We have started working on simple rhyming words (your child brought home a newspaper about this today). Please practice this also!
Please check this picture to see if your child is responsible for something this weekend. Have fun!
NEXT WEEK:
*The letter W (please send in a 'w' picture in the letter envelope on MONDAY)
*Cultures around the World (if your family is originally from a country other than the USA, or you have traveled outside of the country....and you have any artifacts, clothing, etc from that country that you would be able to send in for us to see, please let me know asap. You can send that in any day next week. If you are able to prepare a simple food dish from another country that we could sample, please let me know what day next week you could send that in. Thanks!)
*TUESDAY--Purple Day! Please wear purple and bring one purple item in for show-and-tell!
*THURSDAY--Arts in April! We have been busy working on art projects during school and these will be available for purchase on Thursday evening. The event runs from 5 - 7 on Thursday evening. If you can help out with our class items (game, ice cream basket for auction, etc) please let me know asap.

Please practice with your child:
*Counting to 100 by 10s
*simple rhyming words (cat/hat, king/ring, man/can, etc)

Class wish list:
*We would like to decorate/dye Easter eggs with the kids in a couple of weeks. If anyone could hard-boil and send in a dozen eggs, please let me know. We'd like each child to dye a few, so we'd need a couple dozen. Thanks!