The Plant Cycle

This week we are talking about plants and the life cycle of how a plant is made.  We read the story the “Planting a Garden” and watched a short video clip about how to grow plants.  You can discuss with your child the lifecycle of to make a plant.  What happens first? Get the dirt ready.  Second? Use a shovel. Third?  Plant the seeds.  What happens next? We ended our unit by making plants in the classroom and watched them grow!

This week in math we are talking about sorting.  We can now sort by color, by size (big and little) and we can sort real objects!!!  We are having a great time learning how to independently do our work and keep up with others.  You can ask your child how to sort by color or size or have them sort by shape.

In music we learned how to play instruments in a timing manner so that we know how to follow a beat.  We also learned how to play with a parchute and use the terms up and down as in learning musical notes.  It was fun to learn songs about spring and summer.

Please remember as our numbers increase to always, always, always label your child’s belongings.  We have had several students forget their jacket or snack items.  If they are labeled this makes it so much easier for the students to find their name.

As a reminder, ECS was challenged for each family to collect 25 box tops and send them in during the month of February.  If every student brought in just 25 box tops each, we would collect over 20,000 box tops in just one month, which would be more than $2,000 dollars.  We also encourage everyone to ask extended family to collect them as well.