Starting a garden and checking out the birds

This week we noticed some significant growth in our plants.  The bean plants have taken off and the pumpkin seeds, cukes and apple seeds are sprouting.

We are also bird watching and saw a Scarlet Tanager right in a tree overlooking our playground.  That was pretty exciting.  Students are doing a great job identifying some common birds and learning their sounds and some facts about them. Our playgound is looking more beautiful due to our planting.  Check out the pictures.

A note about our June 1st celebration has gone home.  Please return the form so we can make our plans.  Students have been practicing their songs and dances.

Cooperating to build roadways

Copying and extending patterns

Creating our own patterns

Enjoying the sunshine while we have it!

Recording the progress of our plants

Taking some golf tips from a friend.

Making our own garden 

Enjoying the sun finally!

We loved exploring the woods and discovering the spring flowers and the insects that are now present.

We also have been listening to bird calls and we will focus on birds of Vermont over the next few weeks. See if your child can identify some birds in your yard.  If you have any pictures or books to add to our study please send them in.

Spill the Chips--This game used 2 sided chips and we put 5 in a cup and spilled them out.  We were able to see at a glance combinations of 5.  You can play this game using coins at home.

Counting chips to match the number.

On the 10th of May we collected 10 items to bring to the rug.  We counted our own collection and moved on to count our classmates' collections.

Music class - practicing for our June Celebration on June 1st-- 5:30-7PM

Seeds, seeds, seeds

I am posting this blog a bit later than planned because there seems to be a problem with the site.  I hope this one works.

This week we planted a wide variety of seeds from fruits and vegetables and we will see which ones emerge.  We also have a journal to document our observations.  

 We also worked on some Mother's Day cards  which were done with a great deal of love. Enjoy!

We started to learn how to play golf outdoors and indoors.

Planting those seeds for our study

Scenes from our classroom

Sharing

The Kindergarten students came to our class to share their opinion pieces about the playground.

Starting the process to create our Mother's Day cards

Recording in our plant journals

Exploring instruments during our music class

Here we are being good citizens and greening up our playground.

The afternoon class took a break after all of that work.