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

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