From Caterpillar to Butterfly

Over the past month, kindergarten talked about the life cycle of a butterfly. We read our weekly reader and discussed as well as made predictions about our topic. Kindergarten also learned a song about it! Feel free to encourage your children to sing it to you. Kindergarten also got to watch the life cycle right before their very eyes! Our caterpillars started out very small and after eating and eating, they got bigger and bigger. Eventually they formed cocoons at the top of the net and when they were ready, beautiful butterflies came out. When all of our butterflies were here, we let them all go! If you look at our last picture, you can see one of them near Jacky's arm!

Dr. Khodorkovsky Comes to Visit!

In honor of Health Month, Emy's Dad came to visit! Dr. Khodorkovsky is an ER doctor. He showed the children a very interesting book that taught them all about how our body works. Dr. Khodorkovsky also brought medical instruments to demonstrate to the children. Each child had the opportunity to use his stethoscope and light to examine each other. Emy's dad also brought some souvenirs for the children to take home, like a cool pen and light. The children learned so much and really enjoyed our visitor. Thank you for coming!

Non-Fiction Books

Through the year, kindergarten has learned all about what an author and illustrator does, how to identify the book's title, setting, characters, etc. Most recently we learned the difference between fiction and non fiction books. Each student chose a topic they wanted to learn more about. We looked at various books and found out information about each topic such as how the topic they chose, moves? What it looks like? Where it lives? When they found out the answers to these questions, they wrote a sentence and drew a picture to illustrate. After we collected our information, the children decorated covers. Just like a real book has information about the author, so too does ours. The children were very excited to get the opportunity to be the author and illustrator of their very own books!

Fruit Salad Day & Veggie Salad Day!

For Health Month, kindergarten had a fruit salad day as well as a veggie salad day. The children brought in their favorite healthy fruit or vegetable in order to make salads. We spoke about the various nutrients in each fruit or vegetable and why they are good for us. What a yummy and healthy treat!