April
April
- Caterpillars & Butterflies
- Earth Day
- Show & Tell and School Spirit Week, April 21-25
- Spring & Plants
- Week of the Young Child, April 5-11
- National Poetry Month
The week of April 21-25 is Show and Tell and Spirit Week! Dress-up each day! Bring in one item to show the class!
- Monday-Backwards Day
- Tuesday-Favorite Team (or sport)
- Wednesday-Crazy Hair Day
- Thursday- Pajama Day
- Friday-Favorite Character.
Please limit show and tell items to one per child.
In March we have been working with colors. We made prints with primary colors, learned abut secondary colors, created big colored papers that we will be using to make collages. The afternoon class made a big green alligator!
Our class also made a mural together, and we asked what color is friendship? Here are a few answers:
- Orange because my friends like it-Milo
- Green because all my friends like leaves and mushrooms-Avi
- Yellow because my friendship is light-Collette
- Red because my heart is red-Elodie
- Purple because of grapes-Charlotte
- Pink because of love-Finnegan
- Blue because I like to share my juice-George
- Silver and Gold because make new friends and keep the old-Jack
- Green because my friends make me think of my favorite stuff-Finley
- Blue, just because-Archer
- Rainbow because of all different friends- Miles C
- Red because I have seen it and I know it’s red-Benny
- Pink because it makes me feel pinkish-Florence
- Blue because it’s bright-Kai
The Week of The Young Child
The Week of the Young Child™ is an annual celebration hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) celebrating early learning, young children, their teachers, and families. This year’s event is April 5-11th, 2024! We will be celebrating and following along with these fun activities. No school on Monday, April 7th as it is a planning day, so we will have Music on Tuesday, along with Tasty Tuesday, Work Together Wednesday, Artsy Thursday and Family Friday.
National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month each April is the largest literary celebration in the world. We will learn about poems, hear some new ones, and work on creating our own as a group and individually. Each child will work on writing their own poem called “I Am From” to help us learn that poems have an important place in our culture and our lives. 
Garden
We are so excited, to get our caterpillars! We are setting up a habitat for them in the classroom to watch them grow bigger and change into butterflies! During April we will work on some garden projects and planting. We will be talking about Earth Day and how we can help our planet.
Special Guests
We enjoy our special visitors! This month we welcome Joanie from Talk About Trees, our middle school book buddies from The Portland Forest School, Teacher Brittany from Moon Shadow Music and more!
See you soon!
