The Easter Bunny was here!!!! It must be because we have been preparing for him all week long! We had so much fun getting our creative juices flowing this week. We got to dye eggs and decorate them with jewels! We even turned




our egg cartons into baskets! Just to make sure the Easter Bunny would not get lost and miss our classroom, we all sat together, as a group, to map out where our classroom could be located in the building! As a group, we hand delivered it to Mrs. Halloran. We figured the Easter Bunny would have to be buzzed in by her, so she could just hand it to him! As usual, there were colors all around us, but this week in preschool, it's was super colorful. We had fun mixing colors to make new colors. It was cool to see what secondary colors we could make by mixing our primary colors!


I hope that everyone has a wonderful Spring Break! I want to thank you all for the donations to our Tricky Tray basket! It looks fantastic! I hope to see many of you there. See you all in April!

Mrs. Gilberti

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!!!!!



I can't wait to start feeling the temperature change and the flowers blooming. This week we reviewed some of our preschool skills. We practiced snipping, cutting, writing our names, counting, quantifying,



matching, number and letter identification! Phew! We were busy but did a great job with these skills. We had a great time making our Spring baskets, using glue, yarn and a balloon. Be sure to ask your child about it and what part the balloon played to create the baskets!

Our Tricky Tray basket is coming along nicely. I will collecting donations until Tuesday, March 26th. After that, the basket will be wrapped and delivered to the PTA. Mrs. Sturm, Mrs. Brands and I purchased a wooden toy chest, as our donation, for our classroom basket. We will use the toy chest as our "basket". It's going to look great! We could still use a few more items to fill up the toy chest. Some ideas would be videos, floor puzzles, board games and books! Thank you again for your generosity and I hope I get to see you all there!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!! Lucky the Leprechaun was indeed here at OCS! We know this because he made a mess of our room! As expected, Lucky left behind gold coins and shamrocks. He can't help but be messy because he is always running! He did leave us a sweet note and a little treat, to apologize for his mess. This week we worked hard on patterns, learned about Ireland and enjoyed making our Fruit Loop rainbows! We even practiced writing our number words on shamrocks! Overall, it was a great week and the sweetest part of it all was seeing everyone's faces, as they walked in the room, to find Lucky's mess! Have a great weekend! Mrs. Gilberti

Well, well, well...March has certainly come in like a lion and I'm hoping it will go out like a lamb! I'm looking forward to planting my flowers. This week we discussed how the temperature is changing, the leaves on our trees are growing in, baby animals are being born and how our winter chill is beginning to warm up. We have started to chart the weather to see how the weather changes from the beginning of the month to the end of the month. We had a great time exploring the lion and the lamb through our crafts. We also had fun exploring all the different colors we begin to see in Spring. The children practiced their snipping skills creating rainbows out of colored snipped paper. I really enjoy having them on our classroom windows. They bring a smile to my face.

Thank you so much for the Tricky Tray donations. We will be collecting donations through the month of March! Remember, if you do not have time to shop for a donation and would like to donate money, I can shop for you. Let's make this basket great! I heard that this weekend will be beautiful, so please get out and enjoy!

Mrs. Gilberti

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!!!!! For years, we have all been delighted by the wonderful writings of Dr. Seuss. We spent all week enjoying some of his most recognized writings. We had so much fun this week with our crafts. The giggles that were heard coming from our room, while we painted each others feet, were like sunshine on a cloudy day. The children were paired up and each got to paint a friends foot and use their own foot as a stamper. This was such a great activity after reading, "The Foot Book." Now of course, we couldn't celebrate Dr. Seuess' birthday without making our own version of the very famous, red and white patterned hat, as seen on that naughty but fun cat! We also had fun practicing our rhyming words. We got a little silly generating a list of words that rhyme and did a fantastic job practicing clapping the syllables in our names! We turned oursleves into green eggs and voted which was our favorite Dr. Seuss book. My first guess would have been "The Cat in the Hat" would win but "Green Eggs and Ham" won the most votes.

Overall, this has been a fun packed week. We got to finally enjoy some time outside and look forward to sunny days on the playground. Thank you to those who have donated to our Tricky Tray basket. We will continue to be collecting for our basket next week.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti