Wow! This week flew! It must of been because we were having so much fun learning about butterflies. We started our week off by reading, The Very Hungry Butterfly. We had so much fun practicing color recognition, the days of the week, counting and the butterfly life cycle while enjoying this wonderful story. We continued the theme of butterflies by making a diagram

of the life cycle using, paper cut outs, lentil, and pasta. We also discussed symmetry and the beautiful colors of butterflies. The kids had a lot of fun using paint, on one half of a folded piece of paper. They then folded back both sides and rubbed to make their butterfly wings symmetrical. There were a lot of ohhhs and ahhhs. Coffee filters are not just for adults. In preschool we used our washable markers to color them in and then we sprayed them down with water, to creat beautiful tye-dye wings. Putting them together with a clothes pin was neat too. It's always great to see what can be made with every day objects. Tomorrow is the Tricky Tray! Thank you to all who donated and to Mrs. Sandorff for coordinating our classroom basket. I hope to see many of you there. It has sold out in the past and history has been made again. The Tricky Tray is sold out again! I want to personally thank everyone who donated and colored in Autism Awareness ribbons. We were over whlemed by the support from staff, students and the community! Please enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

I hope that everyone had a great Spring Break! All the kids came back rested and ready to go. This weather has been incredible and flowers are blooming all around us. We took advantage of this and managed to take a nature walk to discover all the new growth in our neighborhood. We noticed the grass getting greener, the leaves on the trees coming back but most importantly, all the beautiful shapes, colors and sizes of different flowers. We have been learning about the different parts of flowers and their functions. We even conducted an experiment to see how the stem of a flower works. The children loved seeing the white carnations turning colors.

We got to spend some time outside this week. Blowing bubbles never gets old for preschoolers! We even got to have fun with hoolah hoops and our Frisbees. We had to take advantage of the great weather!

This weekend is our 5k walk/run, at Meadow Breeze park. I hope to see you there. Also, in your child's folder you will find an Autism Awareness ribbon. For a donation on $.25, you can have your child color it in, return it to me, and all ribbons will be displayed around the school. Let's help make a difference!

I hope that everyone enjoys their weekend.

Mrs. Gilberti

We had a really nice week learning about Peter Cotton-tail! Wouldn't you know it, he left us eggs! We had so much fun decorating our own eggs. We sent home with the kids, their marigolds. The children did a great job taking care of them. I hope to see some pictures of these beatufitul flowers when they are full grown. I hope that everyone enjoys the next week off and I'll see you all on the 16th!

Mrs. Gilberti

Well, looks like March did come in like a lion and out like a lamb. The children had fun charting the weather and learning about tallies. Now, it's looks like April has started off on the right foot, with April showers which should bring us May flowers! Speaking of flowers, our marigolds are growing nicely. The children are doing a great job taking care of their own flower. They will be coming home with your child this week. We also worked on our own umbrellas, in preparation for April showers. Don't they look so nice?

Soon we will all be on spring break. Please remember that there is no school on Friday. The Easter season has started and little chicks, colored eggs and bunnies are every where you turn. We ended our week with making our own chick hatching out of it's egg. We used snipped color paper to color the egg. Since we are talking eggs, please send in two hard boiled eggs with your child tomorrow. This week, we will be having fun decorating eggs and making a little basket for them. It's going to be a fun week.

Now, onto a more serious note. April is Autism Awareness month. Today, April 2nd, is World Autism Awareness Day. Please help support research for autism and Light It Up Blue! People all over the world will be lighting up their homes offices, etc with blue bulbs, including the Empire States Building! Please send your child in wearing blue and remember to join us for our 2nd annual 5k run/1 mile family walk, on April 21st, at Meadow Breeze park. Registration forms can be found on this website our you can register the morning of. I hope to see many of you there.

Mrs. Gilberti

I hope that everyone enjoyed the glorious weather that we had over the long weekend. I know I did. I even started getting things ready for my garden. Speaking of gradening, this week in preschool we all learned about flowers, their parts and what they need to grow. We even planted marigold seeds. What a great way to kick off Spring!

In class, we practiced snipping, gluing, and strengthening our hand muscles by pinching tissues, when making our flowers. The kids loved using real sunflower seeds to place in our seed pod of the sunflowers we made. Everyone got to taste the outside of the shells and giggled at the surprise of the salty taste. Many of us helped Curious George count to 20 in his garden, at the computer center and in our sand/water center we enjoyed planting seeds in the soil (wet sand). It's been a great week to fine tune our preschool skill.

Thank you so much for all of the donations for our Tricky Tray basket. We truly appreciate it and thank you again to Mrs. Sandorff for coordinating this for us. Again, please purchase your ticket ahead of time if you plan to attend. Tickets sell out quickly! Please enjoy your weekend.

Mrs. Gilberti

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb and in preschool we always like to check if things are true so we decided it would be a great idea to chart and tally lion days and lamb days. So far, it's looking like this saying is true! In lieu of March we created lions out of paper plates, using our very best snipping skills. We had a lot of fun making our soft lambs with cotton too. The month of March also brings us St. Patrick's day! We started to talk a little about those mischievous little leprechauns that watch over pots of gold, at the end of rainbows. We came up with a plan to lure a leprechaun into our room. We decided to make rainbows with paint but there was one little problem! We didn't have orange, green or purple paint for our rainbows. We put our minds together and thought it would be neat to be scientists and mix the three colors that we did have and see what we could make! Wouldn't you know it that red and yellow makes orange. Yellow and blue makes green and if you mix red and blue, you can make purple!! It's great fun being scientists! Next week, we will be planning more ways to tempt a leprechaun to visit our room!

Thank you to those who have donated to our tricky tray basket. We can use as much help as possible with this basket and it is much appreciated! I hope that this beautiful weather continues and that everyone enjoys their weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!!!!!! We had such a great week! I enjoyed all the giggles I heard, as I read the wonderful books that we all enjoyed hearing, as children ourselves. Everyone loved patterning red and white paper to create our own version of that fresh cat's hat, in the story Cat in the Hat! We even turned our faces into green eggs. It wasn't that hard since we have all gotten so good at using our scissors correctly and following dotted lines with them. I'm happy to say that everyone enjoyed having their feet painted too. We enjoyed this fun activity after reading, The Foot Book.

This week, our school also began our "Character Workouts!" This past Wednesday and Friday, you may have noticed staff wearing work out gear. This is because we all worked out our "CORRECT" muscles to strengthen our character! This week we worked on courage and optimism! This will continue throughout the month.

Our annual tricky tray is around the corner! Our classroom basket's theme is camping. In your child's folder, you will find a list of items that you can choose to donate from. If you do not have time to shop or do not know what to donate and would like to make a monetary donation, please do so. Mrs. Sandorff is our classroom coordinator and will shop for you. Let's help make this basket incredible! If you haven't already done so, please order your tickets for this event because it does sell out quickly!

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!

MRS. GILBERTI