"BEAUTIFUL WEATHER CLOSES THE FIRST WEEK OF MARCH!!!!"

Ciao, All . . .

What a beautiful week-end, &, fine close to the first week of March -- ENJOY!!

The introduction to fairy tales, nursery rhymes and Spring has gone very smoothly, this week, and has included, as well, a second sweep of pajama days, celebrating the birthday of Dr. Seuss -- complete with hand-crafted "Cat in the Hat" hats -- and Read Across America Day, and, parent breakfasts, for which our Butterflies and Puppies enjoyed preparing!!

Fairy tales and nursery rhymes, together, create an optimal environment for dramatic play, language-based learning and art exploration, and, so, Monday morning opened with a new supply of themed books and a myriad of related activities, such as glueing candlesticks, (using recycleables), painting kingdoms, (referring to visuals), building castles, (with blocks and boxes), and telling stories, (utilizing felt boards) -- a great big thank you to Nyah, who has loaned our school many wonderful costumes, and, to Gryffin, as well, who has nicely shared his "talking" tool set!!

Miss Downing and Mrs. Dolham spear-headed an experiment based on "Humpty Dumpty", which required the kids to think like scientists, and, resulted in the breaking of many not-so-hard-boiled eggs, (?!).

Beginning on Wednesday, the children began decorating colorful foam crowns and gold paper stars, for our themed tree, now, fully loaded, and, located in, the Cubby Room -- stellar job, children!!

(Our Science Table is, as well, now located in the Cubby Room, and, our Listening Center has been moved into the main classroom.)

Many of the Center's high-school students rose to the occasion of both planning and implementing a grand selection of wonderful theme and learning center-based projects -- in the giant-sized puppet-theatre/castle, for example, the children donned period clothing, tiered crowns and glittering wands -- and, by week's end, the little ones were dancing, with each other and to joyful music, at the Royal Ball!!

As well, our small princesses and princes tried on Cindarella shoes, drew related pictures with captions, matched castles and royal symbols, and played "Prince, Prince!!", (outdoors).

We gathered together to view an elaborate pop-up book of Alice in Wonderland and to read "In the Castle", several times -- a(n) (Usborne) favorite, in addition to other stories with happy endings!!

Scholastic book order forms have been distributed, and, feature many fabulous selections!!

Love Miss Peacock XOXO