Good Afternoon!

**Given we have a short week this week, we will celebrate by making tomorrow PAJAMA DAY!

We read, ‘How Do Apples Grow’?’ in K/PREK1 group. It was very informative, offering up things that we didn’t know about the process in which apple trees grow.

When the story was over, each friend chose two notecards. One card had the name of  an animal while the other card was some kind of plant or tree. They had to share one similarity and one difference when comparing the two things.

For example, Evie chose chipmunk and maple tree. She said the similarity was that they both need water to survive while a difference is that chipmunks can run and trees cannot!

Science: K.4.1 Observe plants and animals, describing how they are alike and how they are different.

In PREK2 group, children brainstormed about plants. They shared every bit of information they knew about plants and Miss Kim wrote it down on the whiteboard.

An art activity was made available this morning that centered around plants (which continued throughout most of our morning!).

Three of our plants were front and center on the lazy Susan. .

The first step was for children to draw what they saw using a pencil.

Once their pencil drawing was complete, they were given a black sharpie marker to outline their drawing.

The last step was water color! Children used a variety of water colors to paint their plants based on what they saw.

All of our drawings came out absolutely amazing and they all looked completely different! Children really took their time and used details in their creation.

The sign in question of the day asked children to guess how tall the tallest bean plant was today. Children wrote their name under their guess before a few friends measured it using a ruler.

Mack and Evie worked together to figure out how tall the plant was: it  measured in at 10.5 inches! A few friends helped out by watering the plants. They take this job VERY seriously.

Breakfast– Whole Grain Oatmeal with cinnamon and banana.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat bread/tortilla, fresh cantaloupe/banana, and fresh cucumber/broccoli/cauliflower.

PM snack– Pretzels and raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cauliflower/broccoli.

Have a wonderful night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 4/13