This week's "Graduation Celebration" theme was an awesome way to finish up the school year (I'm not going to cry-I'm not going to cry....)  We enjoyed doing a year end review and repeating favorite activities, projects and games. 
     We read some of our class favorites including How do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food, Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear, and Silly Faces, See Me...GO!  Ashleigh really thinks it's funny to be the magician's rabbit in the Silly Faces book.  Kristin brought a book in called Baby Turtle's Tale.  The kids really enjoyed it.  There was a scary part with a shark and they said they were brave so we read it and the turtle hid from the shark and it was OK.  What a relief. 
     We also did a lot of singing.  One day, we sang one song we learned during each month.  It was fun to sing some of our favorite Halloween and Christmas songs again.  When Shea was asked to pick his favorite song to sing on his last day of school he said "It's ABC's, I guess!"  So we sang it loud and proud.  Ashton and Lou caught a case of the sillies during the song and found their monster voices to sing with.  So much silliness.
     In art, we used a lot of our leftover collage pieces.  It was a great way to remember many of the projects we did thoughout the year.  Andy really wanted to do more pool painting.  Everyone agreed, so we did.  Pool paintings are so fun and so pretty. 
     Our letter this week was o.  We made O octopi.  We did some stop dancing to some opera music and we made lots of lots of o sounds.
     In math, we used chop sticks to pick up pom poms and then sorted them by color.  We also practiced graphing.  We used jelly beans for our color graphs.  We love math especially when we get to eat it!
     Thank you so much for such a great school year.  We've had so much fun and learned so much.  We have gotten to be so independent and made so many great friends.  To the kids who had there last days this week, we will really miss you.  Come in and say "Hi" if you are in the neighborhood.  Otherwise, you will grow up and I'll miss it!  I'll be saving a hug for each of you!  To each of the parents, thanks for all of the love and support this year.  I really can not say how much it is appreciated.  Love, Ms. Angie, Ms. Claudia and Ms. Rebecca