April 16-18, 2024

Hello Families! Our theme this week was birds. We have finished introducing all of the alphabet letters, so we will review all that we have learned by not only naming the letters but also forming them as well.  We have also completed our Second Steps curriculum for the year, but we will continue to review the major concepts for the remainder of the school year. This week we read The Best Nest, I am Not a Bird, and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. We used pastels to color birds and made nests using paint and paper shred and played a bird-nest themed counting game. We received a special visit from the Creve Coeur Police Department as well. Officer Bidwell showed us her special police car and Officer Phil introduced us to his special police dog Frisbee - this was the highlight of the week hands down! We had fun singing and playing the triangles during Music, and in Art we completed the bird/scribble nest project. Also, Happy Birthday to Thea! 

April 9 - 11, 2024

Good Afternoon Families! This week The Dragonflies focused on clouds and rainbows, and the letter of the week was Z. The theme of our Second Steps lesson this week was speaking up for yourself in an assertive, kind way. The Dragonflies learned that if someone treats you poorly in a mean or unsafe way, you can respectfully and assertively speak up for yourself.  The Dragonflies were treated to a special show featuring Dino O' Dell on Tuesday! Later in the week we made various imaginative clouds using a mixture of glue and shaving cream after reading It Looked Like Spilt Milk and used shaving cream to create clouds on individual trays. We also read How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow, learned the colors of the rainbow by singing "The Rainbow Song," and made our own rainbows using water colors and cotton balls for clouds. Ms. Li taught us two new songs titled "If all the Raindrops" and "Buzzzzy like a Bee" and in Art we read a story about scribbles and colored in birds and wings while making scribble nests for them.