How neat to love flowers and bones so much that you can spend your life painting them on a canvas. How neat to have your last birthday party with 98 candles on your cake…..

We put our bread over our shoulders,our music and juice in the wagon and off we go.  Each year our class walks to a beautiful home on Brooklawn Terrace that has a Japanese bridge across a brook. We sit on the lawn and drink white and red “juice” while trying to capture the feeling of Monet’s family in his back yard. The background of our canvasses was made by the 8th grade class which makes it very inviting to arch a brown bridge across the middle.  Our big rimmed hat keeps the sun off our eyes, just like Claude.

What is a  toy not decorated with TV characters or bright lights? No blinking lights? No microchips? Nothing that wiggles or twinkles or giggles?  It is a favorite toy among our children and certainly a favorite of mine.  It teaches Math, Science, Language, Social Studies, Art as well as Physical Development.  Even cleaning up is fun..

On Thursday morning, May 6 our Pre K 3 students welcomed their moms to the Annual Mother’s Day Tea. Each student presented a rose to their mom (and Grandpa, in one case), sang songs, and served their special guest strawberry shortcake.

What a guy!  He threw paint on a big canvas on the floor of his barn and became one of the greatest artist in the world. I really enjoyed making my shirt and our class project.

Mika’il’s mom and the parents of our class gave a fun-filled egg hunt last week.  The children enjoyed cupcakes and lots of prizes. The children love to run around our playground, and the weather could not have been better. It was a perfect time to celebrate after our 2 week vacation. A warm “Thank you” to everyone.

The 13th annual Dad’s Dessert was held last week. We had a huge sundae, played in the gym, made our own special shirts and had a real scavenger hunt in our classroom. Our new teacher for next year, Mrs. Lawrence, helped us with all the toppings for our special dessert. It sure was a lot of fun….

A special day was arranged for our Teddy bears and ourselves to have a loving day of tea and lots of sweets to enjoy. We held our china tea cups with our pinkies pointing up, which was very difficult to do. We were very kind to each other and lots of “Thank You’s” and “Pleases” were practiced. After this special day our Teddy bears went home and had to take a nap.

Did you know that a certain penguin that lives in the Antarctic (South Pole) is the biggest penguin on earth?  After Mom delivers her egg, she goes off and eats in the ocean for about 2 months while poor Dad has to keep the egg warm while balancing it on top of his feet. Do you know how hard that is????

Look what I can do in our water table. We made really long straws and blew into them really hard. When we blew slowly, the bubbles became very big. When we blew quickly, they were very small. We tried to see who could make the biggest one.