Growing in God (Threes)

We had fun "growing" in our class this past week as we studied plants and gardening! We cannot believe that we only have a few more weeks until the year is over, but we are amazed at how much these sweet friends have "bloomed" this year!

We were busy learning in our garden theme centers! We made flowers built out of our names to go along with the book The Tiny Seed. We even got to plant our own flower and grass seeds and talk about what plants need to grow! Everyone also had lots of fun planting flowers in our potting sensory bin. We enjoyed several different flower counting games and spent a lot of time on beginning sounds and writing letters. We are making so much progress with our letter and number recognition. To go along with our gardening theme, we read books about the parts of plants, how seeds move around, and types of plants. See if your child can remember any cool plant facts!

Our Bible focus for the week was how we can grow in God by continuing to learn more about him. We learned a new fun Fruit of the Spirit song to learn the ways that God helps us to show others his love. See if your child can remember the story of the vine and the branches... We discussed how a branch that is chopped off cannot grow or have fruit anymore, and if we don't love God, we cannot do the things that He wants us to do. 

We also had some science fun this week! We continued to enjoy observing the changes in our tadpoles this week. Thank you to Baerli again for bringing these in. We also colored water to do a celery experiment. See if your child can remember what happened to the leaves of the celery. 

We look forward to another great week next week!

Look at that good marker grip!

Fun with flower pots!

Wow! What awesome work!

Counting with pom poms :)

These smart boys matched all the letters!

This guy is speedy at putting his
name together!

Planting seeds!

Fun with celery sciene!

We let our flower seeds get some sunlight.

We enjoyed hearing about another
Gumby adventure!

Growing in God!

We had fun "growing" in our class this past week as we studied plants and gardening! We cannot believe that we only have a few more weeks until the year is over, but we are amazed at how much these sweet friends have "bloomed" this year!

We were busy learning in our centers this week. We made flowers built out of our last names to go along with the book The Tiny Seed. Our Bible focus for the week was how we can grow in God by continuing to learn more about him, so we used our hand prints and broccoli to create "growing in God" trees. We even got to plant our own seeds to watch grow! We continued to work on addition and subtraction, as well as our teen numbers. We enjoyed several different flower counting games. We also spent a lot of time on beginning sounds. We were VERY excited for some special visitors this week as well: a toad (who laid eggs the whole time she visited) and a chicken and chick! We also had fun doing some celery science!

Such good writing!

Someone was very proud of
 his name flower!

Enjoying the potting sensory bin!

Working on beginning sounds
can be fun!

Counting with beads!

The chicken was a hit!

We hope the grass grows!

Making seed mosaics. 

We also got to enjoy the sunshine this week in addition to our green room and indoor play time! We continued to work on our graduation songs (with graduation approaching very quickly)! We also had TWO birthdays to celebrate this week! Happy birthday to both birthday girls!

E is for earrings!

E is for eggs!

Such sweet friends

The green room is so much fun!

Such good helpers!

Just a stop at the gas station...

We are ready for graduation!

Bridge Class

We had a great gardening week in Bridge class as well! One of our highlights was a surprise visit from Mrs. Rose to do a fun painting class. We learned about how to create a dominant color when painting and had to do blotting when painting. We also got to learn about some additional plant facts. We read about plants that can grow in the desert and also about vegetables (and which part of the plant we eat for each vegetable). We spent time on graphing, more addition, and ending sounds. We look forward to insect week next week!

Painting with Mrs. Rose!

Such hard workers!