This week, we continued to learn about sea creatures. We learned that a whale is a mammal and is actually part of the dolphin family. The kids where so surprised to learn this. We also learned that fish, unlike mammals, breathe under water with gills. The kids also enjoyed exploring the sea creatures through the use of crafts. We made puffy paint sharks, paper snipped whales and paper plate fish. On Wednesday, our p.m. class was thrilled to watch their siblings practice for the Spring concert. We will continue to learn about sea creatures next week and also will continue to work on our ocean board. I hope that everyone enjoys their three day weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

This week in preschool we began our unit on MARE. We had soooooo much fun painting our ocean with our fingers! We were very impressed to learn that there are 24,000 different kinds of fish in the ocean. In the next few weeks, we will be learning about different sea creatures and creating our ocean board for ocean week. We have a lot going on next week. The Spring Scholastic Book Fair will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Our p.m. class will be attending the sale on Tuesday and our a.m. class will attend on Wednesday. Please have the children bring in their money, in an envelope with their name on it. Also, the book sale will be going on before and after our Spring concert, which will be on Wednesday, May 22. On Monday, May 20, every student will have their Spring photo taken. Families will have the opportunity to view the proofs before purchasing. No purchase is necessary if you do not like the proofs. Our weather has been really nice out and we have been getting the children out to play. Please remember that for safety reason, sandals are not permitted on the playground. I hope that you all enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

This week we were busy learning about butterflies and their life cycles. We learned about symmetry and enjoyed exploring this concept using paints and our butterfly paper templates. We folded over our butterflies and only painted one side.

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The kids loved when we had to bring the painted side and non painted side together to be rubbed. There was excitement to see what colors blended and how both sides were now symmetric. Since exploring colors was so much fun, we got creative with coffee filters. What I found commical was that the children had no idea what a coffee filter was. I guess everyone has a Keurig these days. We used our washable markers to color them in and enjoyed watching the colors blend when wet. We even got creative when recreating the butterfly lifecycle using pasta and paper! Overall, it's been a week of fun and exploration. I hope that everyone enjoys their weekend and that all of us Mommy's get some extra time to sleep!!!!

Mrs. Gilberti

What a gorgeous weekend! I hope that all my friends were out looking for insects and spiders because we spent the week learning about their differences. We enjoyed learning new facts about different types of insects and had fun crafting and working on our fine motor skills. This week we will be learning about the butterfly life cycle. Since the weather has been so nice out, we have been getting outside to play on the playground. It's such a great way for the children to practice social skills and gross motor skills. Please remember to apply sunscreen before they get to school and if you would like, send in an extra bottle of water. It gets hot out there while they are running around having fun.


Mrs. Gilberti

I hope that everyone got out to enjoy the weather over the weekend! We had such a busy week last week! We learned about ladybugs. Did you know that ladybugs are not just red with black dots?! We practiced counting with ladybug dots, got creative with our paper plates and turned them into ladybugs and learned some pretty interesting facts about our pretty little lady bugs. This week our a.m. class participated in our CORRECT assembly and everyone enjoyed the Duck Race!!! Our PM class enjoyed meeting their future kindergarten teachers at Kindergraten roundup! I can't believe it's that time of year already!! This coming week, we will learn about insects and how they differ from spiders. Enjoy your week!

Mrs. Gilberti

What an exciting week this has been for all of us. We love a week filled with science and experiments. Our first experiment was to track the water level of a cup filled with water that sits in the sun. As we predicted, the water has begun to evaporate and the water level is getting lower. We enjoyed our visit with Mrs. Paoloa's 3rd grade class. They invited us to watch their skit on the water cycle. It was awesome!!! This week we focused on seeds, plants and their parts. To support this we created sunflower craft and labeled plant parts. This leads us to our next experiment. We are waiting to see if our predictions are true about the stem. We placed blue dye into water and placed our white carnations into it. We can't wait to see what we will find Monday morning. Some of the kids think that the flowers will turn brown. Others believe that the flowers will stay white and others believe the flowers will turn blue. HHHMMMMMMM? Also this week, our sunflower seeds that we planted last week have begun to sprout!! Oh boy are the kids excited!!!! Tomorrow is the Autism 5k run/walk... rain or shine!!! I hope to see some familiar faces!! Enjoy the weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti

April Showers Bring May Flowers! Well, after the other night, my flowers have plenty of water for a few days! It is nice to see new life sprouting when walking around outside. This week was so beautiful and we loved playing outside on the playground. We made sure to look around and notice the grass growing in, flowing begining to pop out and bees buzzing around. Of course, the se are all signs that Spring truly has Sprung. This week, we reviewed the letter U, for Unique Umbrellas. We had fun crafting our umbrellas, rain drops and flowers. The children were all so excited about planting sunflower seeds. Each child will get a day to water the seeds and hopefully in a week or so, we will be able to see seedlings.

April 25th, will be Kindergarten Roundup. This is when your children will meet the Kindergarten teachers at 12:00 pm. Once the visit is over, they will return to the preschool day and continue with their school day. I will be sending more information about this next week.

This weekend is the Tricky Tray! I hope to see some familiar faces there! Also, this month is Autism Awareness month. Come and join us for an fun day on April 20th, at Meadow Breeze Park, for our Annual 5K Run/Walk Fundraiser. If you would like more information, please check out our school website. Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti