This week we will continue readings from A Child’s Treasury of Beatrix Potter. We will narrate The Story of Miss Moppet and read The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.
In Nature/Science we will collect textured items for our Nature Center as we explore our sense of touch. Your child may bring an item from home any time this month to share with friends and place in the Nature Center. Last week the children had fun matching samples of textured fabrics and Montessori textured tablets. This week we will begin to try to match them with our eyes closed (using only our sense of touch). We are planning to collect leaves and make leaf rubbings to place in the hall. We will plant tomatoes and zucchini in our garden. We will also read How Parrots Can Talk and Other Fun Facts About Birds, and think about how parrots talk, why birds sing, why swans have long necks, and what it takes to be a bird.
In Music/Art we will observe and draw a flowering Impatien, make a Zoodle sculpture, and paint on the easel (we will try to make a letter “Z”). We are having fun with our new song, “The Sunflower.” This week we will learn to differentiate between duple and triple meter and to vary our performance in response to musical cues.
In Phonics we will sort objects beginning with letters “y” and “z” as we say the sounds. We will dot paint the letters and sing the song, “Zippity Zoo”with the little books that we make. We will also work with Kumon mazes and play Beginning Sounds Lotto together.
In Bible we will learn about Daniel (Daniel 6: 1-23) and how he prayed to God even when praying was outlawed. Our Fruit of the Spirit is Faithfulness. We will create a “Daniel Prayer”, and we will have a puppet show about Faithfulness called, “Remember Not to Forget.”
Our field trip to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is this Thursday. We will visit the Living in Space Exhibit, which is located on the first floor of the Cowgirl Museum. We will eat lunch at school as usual and leave for the Museum at 10:30. The cost for adults and children is $3.00. This is a special group price, so please let us know if you plan to attend. Mrs. Hague is collecting the money. A field trip permission sheet will be posted in the hall.
