Butterflies and Ants

This week we are talking about the life cycle of a butterfly. We will be reading many factual books about butterflies, labeling the parts of a butterfly, creating a butterfly life cycle, ordering events of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and writing about butterflies.
In math we are focusing on symmetry and measurement.

Next week we will continue the planner with a focus on ants. We will read fiction and nonfiction books about ants (icluding Two Bad Ants and Ant Cities), label an ant's body parts, discuss the life cycle of an ant, make our own room for Two Bad Ants and make our own Ant City. 
In math we will focus on patterns and graphing.


We have 3 fun events coming up.
1.  April 20- Kindergarten program at 6:30 pm in the cafeteria.  We will be performing BUGZ!!!  Our class will be the fireflies.  Your child will need handheld flashlight (not a laser pointer) that should be sent to school by Wednesday so that we can begin to practice with them.  The kids will also need a solid black t-shirt to wear on the night of the performance.
2.  April 26- Butterfly Museum Field Trip.  We will be needing chaperones, so please let me know if you are available.  
3.  April 29- Dia de los Ninos (Day of the Child)  This day will be packed with fun as the students rotate through the 6 kindergarten classrooms making puppets and maracas, eating tortillas, dancing, playing bingo (loteria), planting seeds, and hitting a pinata.  The tortillas and movie will be in our classroom.  If you are available that morning  sometime between 8:15 and 11:15, please sign up for a 30 minuted time slot.
We will also need people to bring bags of individually wrapped candy (25 of the same item), flour tortillas, corn tortillas, squeezable butter, and a pinata.  Please sign up to help out if you can or email me if you are unable to stop by the classroom. 


Thank you all for your continued help and support!
-Sarah Eddlemon


ps  As you know, it has been an unusual and sad week for our class.  I want you to know how proud of your kids I am.  They showed so much concern and empathy for their classmate that I was almost brought to tears.  I wish you all could have heard our conversation.  It was incredibly heartwarming.


And as a last note, I want to thank you all for all you've done/plan to do for the two families in need at this time.  What a blessing it must be for them to be part of such a caring and giving community!  Y'all are the best!