Wednesday

     We've been crazy busy learning about plants lately! Dawson brought in an egg that has seeds and soil inside. We cracked the top open and watered the soil. We have it sitting in a bowl by our window so it can (hopefully) get plenty of sun and grow. The children had fun predicting what type of plant will grow. Some guessed grass, others a sunflower or a cucumber. Henry thinks it will be an oak tree. We'll have to keep it watered and see what happens! Thank you to Dawson for bringing it in for us to experiment.
     Speaking of eggs, we traveled down to Beth's class this morning and dyed eggs. She had too many eggs so she invited us to join. They will come home today. If your child is picked up after the 3:30pm bell, look for it in their lunch box! Otherwise, I'll hand them out as children leave. They turned out beautiful and oh so colorful.
     Also this morning, we worked on a ladybug book where the children had to put dots on the ladybug. Each page had a number (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and they had to put the correct number of dots on.
     Later this morning, we had our unit study with Tulie's class and Beth's class. We're learning about how seeds travel. We talked about how Tallulah can walk to a nearby restaurant for dinner and Henry rides in a car to get home. Dawson also reminded us he rode in a plane to Colorado a couple months ago. We then talked about ways that seeds can travel. Ask your child if they remember any ways we talked about (animals, people, water, wind). We then went out and found dandelions (like that was hard, right!?). The children picked them and blew the seeds away. Pictures are coming soon. My computer has been sick today. I also took a lot of pictures of the children on the playground today. Be sure to check them out!

REMINDER:

• I have only received 4 conference rescheduling forms back. PLEASE send them in as soon as possible.
• A few of you turned back in forms regarding application of sunscreen, but didn't send in sunscreen. The form you signed states "I have provided an original, labeled container of sunscreen to be used." I only have sunscreen for one student! ;) Please send some in if you'd like sunscreen actually applied to your child. Also, if you didn't send in this form, please know it is optional. You don't have to send it back.