CCS PreK 3-4: May 9- May 13

This week we talked about plants, how they grow and also the different parts of plants. We also got to plant grass seed and some beans! So far, nothing has come up above the soil...but we're hoping that on Monday we'll get to see something growing! In art, we made scented flowers (be sure to stop by and smell them sometime!), we also made flowers with roots and stems, and we colored pictures of the things that a seed needs to grow. We read several books about plants too, The Curious Garde, Whose Garden Is It?, The Carrot Seed, Planting a Rainbow, and Growing Vegetable Soup.

We did a math sheet were we counted and added beans and we got to taste carrots and then we graphed if we liked them or not. Only one person didn't like them! Each day we also talked about a different fruit or vegetable and the kids guessed if they grew on a tree, on a bush, on a vine, or underground. They put their guess up on our graph and then we got to see a picture of how that food really grew! After reading the story Growing Vegetable Soup we drew pictures of our favorite vegetables and wrote the names of them (by sounding out the letters). And then we made our own class vegetable soup!

The Nursery Rhymes that we learned this week were Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet, and Mary, Mary Quite Contrary. The students enjoyed finding the rhyming words in each of them and also by sequencing pictures from the stories and making thier own Humpty Dumpty!

Mrs. Jones also came for her last visit and we got to do a little quiz and review all of the safety tips she has taught us over this past year. The kids did a great job on it!

We are still reviewing all our letters and the sounds that they make and being able to recognize the numbers 0-20. We are also counting to 100 by 10's and most of the kids can do it all by themselves! Next week we are going to start counting to 100 by 5's!

Planting our seeds!