Graduation

We had lots of fun the last two weeks of preschool.  We worked on reading books about our Dads and making presents for them for Father's Day.  We heard the stories Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer, and My Dad the Magnificent by Kristy Parker..  We learned a song that helped us spell Daddy, it goes to the tune of Bingo but uses the letters D-A-D-D-Y instead.

After we sang the Daddy song in class (I had the letters up on the board as we sang it) some of the kids wanted to draw pictures of themselves with their Dads.  On their own, they spelled their name and Daddy!!

One of the highlights of working with young children is watching them discover the joy of writing letters...so impressive to see them do it on their own with sidewalk chalk....wow! 

When we arrived at school on Tuesday all of our sunflower seeds were growing and our butterflies had emerged from their chrysalis.  Such excitement!!  We took the butterflies outside and let them go after snack.  Then we had a chance to run around for a while as well!

We had our final extended day this past week and went on a lovely spring walk.  We noticed all the flowers on the trees were coming out and enjoyed looking for flowers we knew as well.  We found daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths.

Our preschool sing/graduation was another highlight of the week.  All of the kids did such a nice job in the program...I will miss them...it's been a terrific year!

Observing our sunflower seeds!

Practicing for the sing with Heidi. 

Our butterflies as we found them when we came to school on Tuesday.  Notice the empty chrysalis's at the bottom of the garden. 

Letting the butterflies go!

One butterfly landed near us on the ground. 

One of our painted ladies!!

Going on a spring walk during extended day. 

We had fun playing with cherry scented play dough!

The 2019 Graduating Class of Maple Leaf Preschool!!  What a good looking group!!