Dear Families,
We began our week by felting the bodies of our butterflies, rolling long logs of wool. “This is the middle part.” “This is the part where it has eyes.” “Yeah and a proboscis.” After the bodies dried, we attached soft woolly wings. “When can I bring mine home?” “Is it almost time?” Everyone knows that next week, butterflies, caterpillars and artwork will be traveling home, summer vacation will begin and the B3s will become the Pre-k class!
At circle time, we have been singing so many songs from the year, dancing to guitar music and enacting plays. The children request the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, over and over again. Each child enacts the life cycle of these creatures using our silk scarves as props that are wings, chrysalides, or flowers and leaves to eat in a garden.
The children began making stand up books to attach photographs to and we spoke about favorite parts of our year together: “I like our songs. The one about lemon drops.” “We pretended we were the snake baked a hoe- cake!” “I liked resting.” “I liked train tracks.” “We learned to make bread.” “We looked inside the bean.” “Playing!” “Yay, playing!” “We eat pizza.” “We drink the nectar from proboscis, remember this?” “And the fire alarm was really loud, remember that?” I have felt so honored to spend the year with these children and to have the chance to watch them create, converse, wonder and play together.
At Field and Fun Day, the children had a great time getting their faces painted, stringing beads, blowing bubbles, making sand paintings, eating sno-cones, hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn and ice cream and sliding and splashing on our little water-slide.
On Friday we baked bread and per the children’s request, included chocolate in our recipe! We also got to walk in the woods, listen to the sounds of the forest and celebrate Beck’s fourth birthday!
Please send your child to school with a bathing suit and towel next week so we can splash in water if the weather is hot. Please apply sunblock in the mornings and include lots of water and a sunhat.
I look forward to sitting on our picnic blankets together and celebrating the end of a truly wonder filled and wonderful year on Friday. The children’s artwork will be wrapped and ready to go in the Rice room.
Wishing you all the best. I will write one last time next week!
Sarah
