Dear Parents,
We started our week watercoloring with spring colors. We used all the colors of the rainbow, and then some.
The next day we used bleeding tissue paper and water to create more colorful paintings.
During our first music class with Alex, we heard the beating of a hand drum and saw children dancing, and freezing in shapes. The other half of the class worked on planting seeds.
We chose between chia seeds, garbanzo beans, and popcorn. Everyone folded a paper towel into fourths and placed it inside a plastic bag, added seeds, and water. We hung them in the window because the children said they needed sun to grow.
We took turns touching all the different seeds. The class said they felt like rocks, sand, quick sand, and popcorn.
We’ve been observing our tree as the buds opened to reveal white flowers which fell and turned brown during the break. Our tree is now growing small green leaves again, which we can see in our fall tree picture. We counted four seasons, and have four pictures of our tree: summer, fall, winter, and spring.
We are reading I Love Bugs, Birds Are Flying, The Little Tiny Rooster, All About Seeds, The Carrot Seed, Flowers, and Can You Read A Map? We talked about birds eating bugs, and the maps being a birds-eye-view.
We’ve been discovering the return of insects to our yard. We’ve seen ants, bees, flies, one baby millipede, and the world’s tiniest snail. The birds are active in the yard as well. We’ve seen robins, blue jays, mourning doves, sparrows, and pigeons. We found a broken blue eggshell and saw a sparrow's nest in the air conditioner grate. We saw two sparrows taking a dirt bath and we're keeping our eyes out for returning starlings.
On Friday, we played in the yard all day. We looked at new flowers and identified the parts of a flower: stem, leaves, petals, pistil, stamen. Someone kept shouting, “I found some real pollen!” We also noticed a few flowers had visible nectar on the pistil. We read a book about planting bulbs and remembered when we planted our bulbs in the fall. Someone said, “…and we waited til the days go by, and the rain fall, and quickly and quietly, they came…”
We checked our seeds for growth. “I see roots coming out.” “Mine has lots of roots.” “White and yellow roots!”
Have a flowery weekend,
Therese