Dear Parents,

We continued our ocean unit by reading The Rainbow Fish, Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale, and Rainbow Fish to the Rescue, all written by Marcus Pfister. The children then created their own version of the rainbow fish by gluing on different colored scales, glitter glue, and googly eyes to their fish.  Please stop by and look at our rainbow fish, which are hanging in the classroom on a fishing net.

The children also created a whale watch scene by cutting and fingerpainting black and grey whales.  We also added a sun and clouds to our "Whale Watch" bulletin board.

The last and final fish the children made were fluorescent fish.  They created them by cutting out different fish shapes out of bright colored paper and decorated them with sequins, scales, and glitter glue. What a spectacular looking display!

The children were very busy this week practicing with Michelle and Yina for our final school concert. They did such an incredible job while practicing.  I can't wait to see the concert.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We look forward to the beach party next Tuesday.  We have so many fun activities planned for the day. If anyone would like to contribute food to the party and have not signed up, please let me know. Also, please send your child to school with a towel, water shoes, and a bathing suit.  We will be playing with sand and water.
                  

Extended Day Friends

        

Love,

 

Ms. Bonne          

Dear Parents,

We had a terrific week in class.  The children enjoyed preparing for the Portfolio Party.  They loved practicing their repertoire of songs.  This class seems to love singing. Throughout the day many of the children will walk around the room singing.  I hope you enjoyed our Portfolio Party.  You should be so proud of your children's accomplishments.  I certainly am!

             



It is amazing how much they have grown.   It seems like such a short time ago they didn't even know how to hold a marker or  a scissor and now they are writing their names, drawing pictures and are even able to cut out intricate shapes.

During our morning meeting today, we discussed which animals live under the sea.  Some of the sea animals the children came up with were dolphins, sharks, whales, crabs, lobsters and fish. This class certainly loves to learn.  Today, before I even finished putting

out the project, the children were already sitting at the table.  They created individual aquariums by filling a plastic jar with shells, colored stones, frogs, glitter, and water with blue food coloring. The children then decorated the outside of their container with varies types of sea animals. The results were spectacular!

 

We were all so lucky to be able to attend a concert, put on by Michelle and Sachiko. Michelle played the violin and was accompanied by Sachiko on the piano.  Some of the songs they played were: "Ave Maria,"  by Charles Gounod, "Minute," by Luigi Boccherini (a Suzuki piece), "Gavotte from Mignon," by Ambroise Thomas,  "The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag," by Scott Joplin, and "Graceful Ghost Rag", by William Bolcom. It is amazing how talented they both are.  The children and teachers were in awe of the music.

                                                                       Dancing to the Music

During music with Michelle, the children sang and played their box violins along with Michelle.

 

We will continue with our beach theme next week.  We will also be having an indoor beach party (for children only) in class on Tuesday, June 4th. There will be a sign-up sheet in class next week, for anyone that would like to contribute food to our party.

                                      Hi Mom

                         Getting ready for the beach party

 

I counted to 24 all by myself

 

Love,

Ms. Bonne

 

Dear Parents,

We had a great week talking about our feelings.  We talked about what made each of us happy, sad, angry, afraid, and surprised.  We drew pictures about each one of our feelings.  We then put them all together to make a Feelings book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During our meeting time we tossed a feelings cube that included six different feelings such as:  Happy, surprised, angry, afraid, and sad.  We took turns tossing the cube and making a facial expression  that showed up on the cube.  We then talked about that emotion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of our favorite stories that we listened to this week were:

Wibbly Pig is Happy!, by Nick Inkpen, "No!" said Joe, by John Prater, and Not Fair, Won't Share, by Sue Graves.

 

During music this week, with Michelle, the children practiced for their final concert.  They sang their songs, they used their box violins and they learned how to act during a performance. 

 

  

 

 

We looked at pictures of "Lupine " flower gardens and then created our own.  The children first used pastel crayons to give their paper some background texture.  They then used two shades of green and long brush strokes to create the leaves.  Next they  learned how to dab paint on their paper by using their thumbs. The children were surprised at how spectacular their flowers looked, with such a simple technique.  They were all so happy with their accomplishments this week.

 

 

 

 

Reminders: 

Wednesday, May 22nd at 11:00 Portfolio Party

               

Friday,  June 7th at 11:00 last day of               School Concert/Graduation

 

 

 

 

Love,

 

Ms.  Bonne