A PLANTING WE WILL GO....

This week we are learning all about planting.  We started off learning the life cycle of a plant.  Tomorrow, we will be planting flowers and learning how to take care of them.  We also made a a collage on what plants need to survive.

On May 11th, we honored our Mom's with a little celebration.  We invited our Mom's to our classroom for Moms and muffins.  The children sang songs and enjoyed a snack with their Mom.  It was a very special day and the children as well as the Mom's enjoyed it.

The children singing to their Mom's.

Jack and his Mom.

TORNADOES,HURRICANES, AND LIGHTNING OH MY....

We made mud pies in kids in the kitchen this week.

This week we are learning all about the weather.  Today, we made tornadoe bottles, read books, and even watched a tornadoe on our Smart Board!  The letter W is our letter of the week and we ate watermelon  and talked about how watermelons grow.  The children enjoyed making watermelons in art too.

In kids in the kitchen, we made mud pies.  The children loved crushing Oreo cookies and adding a worm to the "dirt".

Looking Ahead.....

• Field trip to the library
• Strawberry Shorcake for kids in the kitchen
• Can the wind move it? A science experiment
• Let us go to the house of the Lord!  Psalm 122:1

Week of the Young Child

It is the week of the Young Child at the Academy this week.  The students brought in their favorite book.  We also had special readers come from our community to read to us. We are also learning about the letter U.  This week we are continuing our celebration of the wonderful country we live in.  In  kids in the kitchen, we ate apple pie and vanilla ice cream.  We also talked about America's past time baseball, and made flags with our hands.



Mr. McCasky reading a story.

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LAND OF THE FREE

This week the students will be learning all about the U.S.A.  We will be making flags, talking about the Statue of Liberty, reviewing the things we love about our country, and making apple pie in kids in the kitchen.  On Thursday, we will be going on a field trip to the children's museum at Navy Pier and ending our week working with the lights off for earth week.

Spring is Here!

Our countdown to spring!

Last week, the students finally finished our countdown to spring bulletin board. They made flowers for each day leading up to spring.  Butterflies were added to complete this beautiful board.  We also celebrated the arrival of spring by observing grass and flowers with a magnifying glasses in our science table. 




Adrian and Isabella exploring at the science table.

 Our class made a hand print rainbow for the letter R r and read the story Rainbow Fish.  Our theme this month is Fairy Tales and we read and created masks for The Three Little Pigs.




Lily and Francesca reading together.

 Looking Ahead......

• Jelly Bean Cross Poem
• Stations of the Cross
• Sort wants and needs in Social Studies

INTERNATIONAL WEEK IN PRE-K

This week was international week in our classroom.  Our class learned about Croatia, Mongolia, Ireland, Poland, and of course Amercia!  The student's enjoyed learning about some of their friend's customs.

It was also St. Patrick's day!  We had a leprechaun that has been on the loose in our classroom for a couple of weeks and the children finally captured him. We had a gold scavenger hunt and made leprechaun hats.

Our Lenten project is doing very well.  The children are bringing in their loose change from chores that they are doing at home.  We are excited to see how much we have collected for our friends in Haiti.

Although it feels like summer, the first day of spring is on Wednesday. We will be celebrating with some"spring" like activities.



Tyler and Evan



Isabella, Keith, and Tyler working hard on their art project.



SPRING IS IN THE AIR!

Isaac, Adrian, and Rocco planting their seeds.

This week we talked about spring.  As of today, there are 11 more days until spring.  We planted flowers and grass and the children are going to take care of their own plant by watering it  and making sure it gets a lot of sun.

On Tuesday, we celebrated the 100th birthday of Oreo cookie.  We completed a writing assignment, put Oreo's in order according to size, and had Oreo cookies and milk for snack.  YUMMY!

Looking Ahead.....

• Goldilocks and The Three Bears
• Identifying same and different
• Creating rainbows for St. Patrick's Day