March 2 – 6

On Monday, we celebrated Dr Seuss Day by reading “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.” We also had a lot of fun with rhyming throughout the day, just like Dr Seuss did every time he wrote! When we went outside, we added more sticks to the sides of our fort to reinforce the walls. The students did an excellent job of problem-solving and working together to build the fort.

On Tuesday, we enjoyed the warm weather in the forest! Students explored new areas of the forest classroom and engaged in amazing imaginative play with each other. With the students’ new interest in exploring different parts of the forest, we decided to take a walk through a new area of the forest that we had never been in before. We called it an “adventure” and we felt like explorers. We discovered countless tracks, and we even found deer scat! On our way back to school, we saw a train pass right in front of us on the train tracks! It was very exciting and loud!

On Wednesday, we continued learning about dinosaurs. We read the story “The Dinosaur Who Lived In My Backyard” and began working on a writing and art project related to the story. Children made a picture of the dinosaur that they thought might have lived in their backyard, and then they wrote or dictated what kind of dinosaur it was, what it ate, and something that it was bigger than. These projects are still ongoing, and the ones that have been finished are hanging in the hallway.

On Thursday, we read a fun story called “We’re The Noisy Dinosaurs.” This story includes many adjectives that describe the dinosaurs, like noisy, sleepy, and quiet, along with actions that those dinosaurs do. The children acted out the story by pretending to be the dinosaurs. We also learned the vocabulary words “carnivore,” “herbivore,” and “omnivore.” On the playground, children had fun playing in the new puddles that appeared under the tires.

On Friday, we learned that dinosaur scientists are called “paleontologists.” Later, we read “Curious George’s Dinosaur Discovery” which follows Curious George as he joins in on a paleontological dig and ends up discovering dinosaur bones accidentally!