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April 2009
News from Kindergarten
March has been a very exciting month for the Kindergarten. We kicked off the month with a fun Dr. Seuss celebration. We snuggled up with our favorite stuffed animals in our special slippers and enjoyed reading many Dr. Seuss books. The highlight of the day was making and eating green eggs and ham. Fun was had by all! We also welcomed the first day of spring and celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with some fun seasonal craft activities. We still await the beautiful spring weather though so remember to keep packing gloves and hats!
We continue to work on measuring in Math. We are focusing now on measuring area using non-standard units. We also have been working on fine tuning our addition and subtraction skills. We have begun to create three part equations. We’ve explored the numbers 7, 8 and 10. We have explored all the ways we can break them into three parts to create some interesting equations.
 This month our theme was all about oceans. We have learned about food chains and plants and animals that live in the sea. We enjoyed a visit from the Scotia Glenville traveling museum. They presented a wonderful hands-on presentation titled “Ocean’s Alive”. We enjoyed a puppet show and a fun craft activity as well. Later in the month we traveled to Proctors Theater to watch a 3-D show about sea monsters. This tied in well with what we’ve been learning about life cycles and the food chain. We have also enjoyed many projects and experiments throughout this unit. We learned why the ocean is salty and which items will sink or float in the salt water. We played around with liquids turning into solids and back again when we created our “beach in a bag”. Our favorite experiment though was the hatching of our triops. We are enjoying watching these interesting creatures hatch and grow. We are collecting data and will compare this with our data we collect next month when we hatch chicks.
April looks as if it will be a busy month. Stay tuned for information about a special parent project coming up to celebrate Arbor Day.
In mid April our chick eggs will be arriving. What fun hatching our own chicks will be! Please stop in and check out their progress! We’d love to have you visit.
Happy Spring,
Suzanne
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