We had a wonderful visit to the Norwalk Seaport! There we learned all about creatures we might find when we visit the beach. We learned about their homes and what they eat as well as how to handle them carefully if we see them ourselves. We got a chance to pick up horseshoe crabs, spider crabs and whelks. Then we each created a beach scene using paint, sand and different decorations. Finally there was a race between the turtles named Tom and Jerry. We had so much fun!

We had a blast searching for horseshoe crabs at Southport Beach last week.  We went way out into the water and found 84 horseshoe crabs!  We were very lucky to find so many!  Once we found them, we brought them to shore so that we could learn how to tag them and then we released them back into the water when we were done with the tagging.  We found many male and female horseshoe crabs, and we enjoyed touching them and seeing how smooth their hard shell is.  We also learned that horseshoe crabs have blue blood and that they use their long tails for flipping themselves upright when they are upside down!  We even found horseshoe crabs that were tagged from last year. It was very exciting to see them return to the same location again this year.  We hope that next year we will be able  to find the horseshoe crabs that we tagged this year!!!

This week we enjoyed watching Kate be the shining star!  We learned that Kate has 3 sisters, 1 brother, a mom, a dad and 1 dog!!  She likes to cook, and enjoys swimming and playing games.   Kate loves to read and her favorite books are books about princesses! Her mom came to school not just once or twice, but we were lucky enough to have her visit us five times to share some of Kate’s favorite activities with the class!!  Kate’s mom showed us how to play the game Zingo, since that is one of Kate’s favorite games to play at home.  We also made play dough with Kate’s mom since Kate loves to cook and she brought in a story to read one day and shared a special watermelon snack with the class.  Last but not least, we each made a special bead project together!  We enjoyed watching Kate shine this week!

This week we enjoyed watching Lily be the shining star!  We learned that Lily enjoys swimming in her pool, loves cats and likes to do arts and crafts projects!!  We also learned that Lily has two sisters and each of their names begins with “L”!  Lily’s mom came to school to read a book and also brought a special sweet treat to share with the class!   We enjoyed watching Lily shine this week!

This week we enjoyed watching Halie be the shining star!  We learned that Halie has 5 dogs, 1 cat and a fish at home, so she is quite the animal lover!!  She likes to do ballet and tap dance.  We also learned that Halie wants to be an artist when she grows up!  Her favorite book is Sheep in a Jeep and her mom came to school to read her favorite book with us!  Halie also loves watermelon and she shared some delicious watermelon for a special snack with the class.  We enjoyed watching Halie shine this week!

As an early celebration of Mother’s Day, we invited our mothers in for a special breakfast, including a homemade fruit salad that we made especially for our moms. We each asked our mothers what they would like for breakfast and made a plate for them. After we all dined, with the help of Mrs. Sarrazin, we sang four Spanish songs as a special presentation for our honored guests. We also presented them with tissue paper flowers and a book all about them. What a wonderful way to start the day!

We learned that Blake is an older brother and a middle brother and that’s a pretty special thing to be! Not only are there three boys in Blake’s family, but they also have three dogs (but not all of them are boys). We learned that Blake is quite an athlete, too. He especially enjoys playing tennis and baseball. We had a special visit from Blake’s dad to read a story and Blake’s mom brought in yummy cupcakes for a treat. What fun!

We learned that Carter loves to work with tools and he especially loves to wash cars! Carter’s granddad came to visit our class and brought all of the tools one would need to wash a car. He helped us use our imagination and we pretended that our table was a red Audi (Carter’s choice). Carter demonstrated how to wash the car and we all took turns to help. It was so much fun! Carter’s dad also made a special visit to our classroom, too. We loved meeting Carter’s family!

For Jade’s turn as Star of the Week she made us all feel like stars. Her mom and dad came to visit us and taught us about constellations. Then they taught us a little history about the Unquowa name. They then presented to all of us and Mrs. Lauer a star that they had named in the school’s honor - “Unquowa Annockqus”. Then we enjoyed a special snack of star-shaped cookies each personalized with a “J” for Jade and one with our own initial to take home. All of the paper goods were pink- Jade’s favorite color!

PreK-4 has been wrapping up the Tiny Creatures unit and had arranged for the Connecticut Audubon to come visit Unquowa’s PreK-4!  Miss Carol from the Audubon brought real live tiny creatures to share and we even got to touch some of them!  The children were proud to tell Miss Carol that insects have 6 legs and that spiders have 8 legs and are not insects, but arachnids!  We also went outside and went on a real bug hunt to search for tiny creatures that live here at Unquowa.  Some of the tiny creatures we found were worms, centipedes and slugs!  At the end of our bug hunt, we returned all of the tiny creatures back to their natural habitats.