Dear Families,
April is here, and along with it comes spring and April
showers. Showers lead to beautiful flowers and green grass – fun colors,
textures, and scents for the kids to experience. Spring provides us with lots
of opportunities to explore, observe and talk. Our themes for this month
include Eric Carle, Spring, Easter, and Bugs. April 8th is
Miss Becky’s birthday, and we will make snow cones with a new snoopy snow cone
machine. Some other important dates: we will have a pajama day on April 7th,
and have an Easter egg hunt on April 14th in the backyard.
During Circle time we will be singing some new songs,
including Little Bunny Foo Foo and Five Little Ducks finger play. We will have
a picture wall of our family photos. Please send Becky pictures either via Facebook
or email, also pictures of grandparents or pets that we can include on our
wall.
We will be exploring games this month. For our younger ones,
we will practice simple coordination with balancing plastic eggs on spoons. For the older kids, Easter Egg letter matching
with lower case letters, Candy land to work on counting, and color recognition
and memory games.
Our activities for this month will be making
contact paper butterflies and contact paper flowers. Both activities expose the
children to decision making by allowing them to choose how many pieces of paper
and what color flowers they want to add to their pictures. It also gives the me
a chance to talk to the children about color recognition and counting skills as
I watch the children create their art work. We will also be marble painting.
This activity helps children to develop their upper body strength and allows
them to be independent. They will also be making glitter rain drops and finger
paint umbrellas, as well as some cute hand and footprint art crafts!
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