May 10-14, 2010

We continued to be scientists this week.  The class learned a lot of interesting things about ladybugs, or ladybird beetles.  We used the book Ladybug on Orchard Avenue as one of our main resources.  The book follows a ladybug around and the class was able to get a good idea of what it is like to be a ladybug, including all of the dangers.

The children designed their own ladybugs on Monday.  They could use any colors and create any type of pattern, but they had to be symmetrical!  It was a bit of a challenge, but the class did it really well!  These ladybugs are currently crawling up our wall in the classroom.  The children also thought about the ladybugs we released last week.  What are they doing out in the wild now?  They drew very detailed pictures wrote a sentence to go along with their picture.  Later in the week, the class was introduced to the ladybug’s life cycle.  We watched a short video that captured the transformation from egg to larva to pupa to ladybug!

Our focus in Christ Light was God’s forgiveness.  We read about God forgave David for his terrible sins.  We talked about how important it is to tell God we are sorry for our sins like David did.  We are so thankful that God gave us the gift of his Son and eternal life in heaven despite the sins we commit each and every day.

In the afternoon, the children worked on finishing up their published books.  Since their stories are longer now, illustrating them definitely takes more time!  But their illustrations are great and really fill up each page of their stories.  We also added more words to our word wall and the children had fun reading off the words on the wall in the dark.  They read whatever the flashlight pointed to!  Later in the week, they began writing in their new lined journals with the “grass, sky, and dirt!”

In math, the older children practiced counting nickels and dimes.  Every morning at circle time we practice counting by 5’s and 10’s, so they are really quite good at this now!  The younger children graphed how many of each coin they had in their cups.  It was good sorting practice, graphing practice, and numeral-writing practice.

I hope you and your families have a good weekend!

In Him,

Mrs. Heifner

our HUGE parachute!

the kids love sitting in it like a mushroom

play time

they set up a toy store at play time

we got messy this week in art!

some children did both hands at once!

art

what are our ladybugs doing out in the wild?

counting, adding, and symmetry in our “Ladybug Gazettes”

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