Welcome back!

What a wonderful first week of school!! We had so much fun getting to know our friends, our teachers and exploring the fun things to do in our class! Here are some shots of your cuties in action. :)

*Our first day of school snapshots

Cutting our name apart and gluing it back together in the right order

Painting our self portraits

Trying out the different center areas

Yummy! Snack time

Painting our secret message....our own name!

Our first day of school paper for our special portfolio

We are so proud of our work!

*We can't wait to see what next week brings! :)

Last week of school!

We spent our last week of school finishing up projects and having fun with our friends and teachers. We worked hard getting our portfolios completed and practiced our songs for graduation night. Our last day of school was spent at Puzzles Fundome with our family and our whole school! What a great way to end the year.

* Thank you SO much for such a wonderful year! Mrs. Traci and I have enjoyed your kiddos and we thank you for letting us be a part of their lives! This has been such a special class and we will miss everyone so much! Be sure to keep in touch. I would love to hear how your summer is going and of course kindergarten. :)

Working hard

This week our theme was horses and we did a few horse projects and read books about race horses, but we also spent a lot of time getting ready for our graduation. :) We worked on our lovely songs that we'll be performing for you at Kinder Prep graduation and finished up projects that will go in our portfolios. Here are some odds and ends from this week. :)

One friend brought in a cool snail to share with us!

We are still having student of the day each day. Reese colors his picture.

Working hard on our student of the day pages for our friend's book

We are such great writers and artists!

We've got the moves! Working on our songs for graduation :)

Of course we had to make a few special keepsakes for our special moms

Handprints show how little we really are but also how much we've grown this year

We loved seeing the silks that were designed at home!! Any jockey would be proud to wear these. :) Here are a few of the fabulous designs.

Insects!

We enjoyed learning about our creepy, crawly friends the insects the last two weeks! We learned the specific characteristics that make an insect an insect through songs, books, discussions, dancing and art projects. We know all about their 6 legs, 3 body parts, antennae and sometimes wings. We are pretty smart scientists at LAP! Painting the ladybug Adding the eyes

Our finished ladybugs with movable wings

Even princesses like to learn about insects Searching for real insects on the playground led us to some worms!

Care for a worm anyone? :)

WOW! Nice writing kiddos!

We love diving into our new themed books each week. This author found a different butterfly representing every letter of the alphabet on its wings. We thought that was

pretty neat.

Ryan's grandma visited us with her amazing insect collections! Thanks Mrs. Sue for coming and sharing...you helped us see what we had been learning about all week!

We blotted paint on one side of the butterfly and folded it to see that each side was the same-a perfect example of symmetry.

We started "student of the day" this week. Each day we draw and write about one of our friends in class and then we each get to take home a big book all about us!

The page we create for our friend

We used pasta noodles to represent the lifecycle of the butterfly

Using watercolors to paint coffee filters made for some colorful butterflies

Last but not least, we had a special birthday! Happy birthday Cort! We hope you have an extra special birthday weekend. :)