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Miss Linda on April 3rd, 2012

Welcome Back!  We took advantage of some great outside play today.  We also introduced all our new April themes and added the virtue of Joy to the classroom tree.  We read an Easter story and decorated our Easter bags for the egg hunt on Thursday.  Find our marshmallow bunny.  Thank you Mia for the cheese [...]

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Miss Linda on March 23rd, 2012

Thanks for letting me play with you today.  We read Rainy City Rainbow and sang a couple rain songs and pretended to be frogs.  Find our music note with songs from and March and April.  We certainly have had many more lamb days in March than lion.  Have fun with the lamb puppet.  Thank you [...]

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Miss Linda on March 22nd, 2012

Tons of fun inside and outside today.  We took a leap into spring!  We hopped and crocked like frogs and made a stand-up frog.  March certainly has felt more like the lamb than the lion.  Find our lamb puppet.  Thank you Austin for the birthday cupcakes and juice.  Hope you all have a happy and [...]

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Miss Linda on March 19th, 2012

Today we had our art enrichment day and talked about the artist Henri Matisse.  We looked through a book with his paintings and  pointed out all the bold colors.  We then had fun reading the book Mouse Paint and learned about mixing different colors together to get a new one.  For our project we mixed [...]

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Miss Linda on March 16th, 2012

We enjoyed some St. Patrick’s Day fun today!  We talked about the holiday and all the festivities that go along with it. To remind us of what St. Patrick taught us, we placed symbols of the Holy Trinity on a three clover shamrock, reminding us they all come together to form one.  We read a very [...]

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Miss Linda on March 16th, 2012

We experimented a lot with colors today.  First we mixed three colors in a bag and decorated a rainbow, it was fun to see all the new colors that came out. (project is still drying).  We then talked about rectangles and tried to find them all around the room.  We matched our colors with our numbers on [...]

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Miss Linda on March 16th, 2012

Fun! Fun! Fun!  Plenty of green in our classroom this morning and a colorful rainbow.  Find our finger painted rainbow. We started with reading about St.Patrick and how he used the shamrock to teach the trinity to the earlier christians in Ireland. Find your shamrock and poem.  Yes, the Leprechaun did visit our classroom!  He made [...]

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Miss Linda on March 13th, 2012

Today we read the Bible story of Noah’s Ark and sang our Bible songs with our rainbow ribbons.  Find our ark and look for the animals inside.  Everyone enjoyed the beautiful day on the playground.  Before snack we painted rainbow bread with syrup and food color.  Thank you Allison for the crackers and yogurt drink [...]

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Miss Linda on March 13th, 2012

We had our bible study unit today and read a story about Noah’s Ark.  We talked about the animals going on two by two and the rainbow in the sky after.  We had fun making our own arks and dropping in our animals.  For our kitchen kids unit we made rainbow break using food coloring and corn [...]

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Miss Linda on March 9th, 2012

We wrapped up our solar system unit by making our space picture, complete with astronauts, rockets and stars.  We started on rainbows and read the story, What Makes a Rainbow.  We made rainbow wind socks and placed a gold coin in the middle to show we found the pot of gold at the rainbows end.  We [...]

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