Money, money, money, money... MONEY!

Conferences on Monday went great!  There is nothing more exciting then seeing the progress your children have made throughout the year.  They have all grown academically and socially and will continue to do so the rest of the year.

We have been studying money particularly coins for the last couple weeks.  We have talked about the names of these coins, the value of the coins, and what president is on which coin.  The children started off by labeling each coin with their value and placing them on the bulletin board above the cubbies.  We then played the "bones and hair" game (ask your child what that is) using the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.  When the children seemed to have a strong grasp on the values, they moved on to doing math problems using these values.  If they were unsure of which coin had what value they referred to the bulletin board to get answers.  They also used counters to solve the math equations given to them.  When they had solved their equations we hung them up on the bulletin board.  Take a look at your child's work!  We also changed the dramatic play area to a grocery store.  The children have been taking turns being the cashier and the shoppers.  They have been using both the fake credit cards and money to pay for their groceries.












Since it is now spring, the tissue paper snowflakes had to come down from the windows.  We had the children make new decorations for them.  Each child made their very own stain glass window using contact paper, construction paper, and colored tissue paper.  They used the strips of construction paper to make it look like a window and then decorated the window with colored tissue paper.  All of the children worked really hard on making their windows look colorful.  You may have already seen them but if not take a look at them on our windows in the class.

We had a special visitor come into our class today.  Sally, the artist, came in to do a special art project with the children.  She read a book and introduced Monet to the children and showed them some of his work famous works.  She then had the children replicate Monet's Waterlilies painting.  The children first used crayons to draw the water lilies and lilly pads and then used blue water color to make the water around the lilly pads.  Take a look at your child's art work.  They all came out very beautiful and the children had a lot of fun with it.

Other things happening in the class:

*Math equations on the whiteboards
*Checked out other children's Enviromental art contest projects
*Water table
*Making books at the art table

REMINDERS:

* The Trik-a-Thon is being held on Tuesday April 24th.  More information is in your child's cubby so make sure to get that paperwork!

* If you don't know this by now you may be in trouble... school is closed all next week April 16-April 20.