This week's theme is Spring, so we have been making spring happen all week in our class.  We have been talking about spring weather, spring activities, and spring things all week!
     We have read several cute spring stories including Spring Things, Splish, Splash, Spring, and Groundhog Weather School.  The kids liked the story Who's Awake in Springtime?  Parker said "I think sheep sleep the mostest."
     We sang songs about the weather and about baby animals for springtime music.  We sang "The ants go marching."  We love that song and have a great time marching around the class and acting out the motions of all the ants.  I love Brodie's enthusiasm for this song,  any song really.  As a special treat we also got to listen to the song as a story CD.  It was a little different than the way we are used to doing it, but we loved hearing it anyway.  We sang several rain songs and afterward we put on our rain coats and galoshes and went out (into our rainy classroom) and went puddle stomping.  So much fun!   Mason loves to kick the puddle water up at people and get them all wet and Henry does such a good jump into a puddle.  Then we hang up our things and have pretend hot chocolate.  It is so amazing how patient everyone is while waiting for pretend marshmallows.  We are not so sure the response would be the same with the real thing. 
     In science, we used measuring spoons and cups to scoop and fill up measuring cups with seeds.  We are planning on planting some of these seeds in April.  It is so exciting to see how much our radish and carrot seeds have grown.  Rylee checks on them everyday and gives us a report about their progress.  They are getting tall.  It will be so cool when the roots begin to grow bigger.  Come in and check them out. 
     The letter of the week is C.  Cash and Charles both have names that begin with C.  We made cotton ball C's.  We painted the cotton balls by putting them in a jar with a bit of paint and rolled the jar around our group circle and then *poof* colorful cotton balls.  We also worked on patterns by making caterpillars with alternating colored segments.  Thanks Cash for bringing in spring colored cookies.  The kids thought they were delicious.  Anna said "Yeah, I have a cookie face because Cash's cookies were so yummy!" 
     Cash, We have loved having you in class.  Your spirit for fun and caring will be missed when you are gone.
    Parents,  please bring in an 8 by 10 inch family photo.  A copy would be great or we can make a copy of an original.  We are going to be doing a super cute project this month!  If you have any questions please see Mr. Thomas or Ms. Angie.  Thanks!