Good Morning and Welcome back!!
What a wonderful welcome back I had on Friday!! Thank you to all the children who came in with their hilarious April Fool's "tricks". I had some delicious granola bar bits with a lovely strawberry toothpaste filling, a box of girl guide rock cookies, a bleeding tooth with ketchup blood all over the fingers, a lovely snake filled plastic egg , some lovely made brown e's, mustard filled chocolate eggs, and perhaps more that I wasnt aware of??? We read a story about April foolishness and talked about how tricks and pranks are okay as long as they arent mean or hurtful! And finally that at twelve oclock ALLLLL pranks and tricks STOPPED at noon! The children were definitely excited but were very respectful and did follow the rules!!
It was awesome to see everyone back on Friday. I had a great time in Greece and Russia. I enjoyed my first trip ever to Europe and was just so impressed by both cultures! I did a lot of touring and visiting with family but was also happy to be back in WARM Vancouver....it wasn't exactly balmy weather in either Russia or Greece! A big thank you to Ms. Craig who took over for the two extra days. The children were in great hands. Did you see the origami flower door?
It was lovely. Great job kids!! and thank you Ms. Craig.
On Friday we spent time trying to finish up our Penguin unit. We have oooooooooooone more activity!! We will continue to work on it in addition to starting our new unit on weather. We will be looking at the clouds and looking at the water cycle and talking about rain and lightening and things like that. April seems to be a good month to do this. This month we will also be doing some spring writing and spring drawing and gardening. Its an exciting time of the year, thats for sure!!
On Monday we will be planting our spuds in tubs. This is an annual thing that both Ms. Jung and I do. We look at our little seed potatoes, talk about them, and then we plant them first in big black tubs which we keep in the classroom. We will watch them grow inside and then when the leaves are growing out of the tubs we will take these potato filled tubs outside and put them at the church across the street where we already have our garlic and other yummy things growing! In June, the potatoes will be harvested and we always have a delicious feast of boiled potatoes and a big salad from all the greens that we have grown!! Something yummy to look forwards to. I may need some help with the planting of the spuds on Monday, let me know if you are available and I will send you a note if I could use your help! Thank you.
Finally, a good bye to Ariel and her family. It was on the last day of school that I said good bye to Ariel. They bought a house in another area and she is going to school there. I wish her and her family the best of luck at their new school and in their new house. Maybe she will come to visit us one day and we can all say good bye to her together!
With that, I hope you all have a great Sunday. I heard it should be sunny!!! I love the sun!!
Take care and I will see you on Monday!
Teri
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