The teachers started the week unsuspecting that the students were all in summer mode already! LOUD! JUMPY! So fun and oh, so energized! As the rain slowed down and the sun peeked out, we felt as if we turned a corner of being able to spend more class time outdoors for the remaining sessions.

On Wednesday evening, we had an end of year Board of Trustees party at Jen and Andy Carpinito’s lovely home. We heaped our love and appreciation on our outgoing president, Ali Lapinsky, and outgoing board members Erika White and Tara Martin. We are thrilled that Erin Carpinito is going to take the helm as Board President and we initiated two new board member, Stephanie Mantz and current board member Taylor  Phillips. Thank you to everyone for your impressive time, ideas and support for our program.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone! Just one more class for each of our students.

PLEASE CHECK THE LOST AND FOUND FOR FORGOTTEN ITEMS. AND CHECK OUT THE LENDING LIBRARY FOR TOYS, BOOKS, OR PUZZLES THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT OVER THE SUMMER AND PASS ALONG. THANK YOU!

Read on for class news.

Ladybugs

On Tuesday, we had Sloane’s mum helping us out in the classroom and we made our Cricket necklaces and finished up our Cricket cut outs. These kiddos are ready for the next step!

We celebrated Lillian’s summer birthday on Thursday and cleaned out our cubbies, sent home extra clothes and any classroom décor that they made. We also sent home their little goodies for their daddies. One more Ladybug class next Tuesday!

Have a great weekend!

Crickets 

We started the week celebrating Lowen’s 4^th trip around the sun. It was so lovely having Papa and Yaya and Mom and Dad all here for the birthday circle. We assembled our portfolios to send home and wrapped our gifts for our dads and grandpas. We traced and wrote our names one final time for the Cricket year, just to see where we were with our name writing.

We recorded our fun circle dance, “Rocket Ship Run”, for our final Cricket closing circle next Monday, and we had a blast singing our insect body part song, “Head, Thorax, Abdomen” at several different speeds.

It is the same each year that we recognize that our Crickets are aptly named! They are loud! They are jumpy! They are ready for summer!  We read Eric Carle’s “Very Quiet Cricket” to them and had to quiet them down two or three times during each page to hear the words of the story.

On Wednesday, these Crickets came home wet and dirty! Boy! The sun comes out and the water play increases! We had car washes for all of the sandbox trucks, along with the pots and pans from the mud kitchen and the dinosaurs and animals from the Dino Den. We read a fun book called “See You Later, Alligator” and the kids had fun guessing the rhyming words as well as making up some new ones. “See you in socks, Mr. Fox”  “See you in a towel, Mr. Owl”. We also said goodbye to Ellie as she will miss the last couple of days of class for a family trip.

On Friday, we cleaned out our cubbies, extra clothes and any classroom décor that the kids made. We will see you on Monday for our last day!

Honeybees

The Honeybees also had a loud start to our week. You can feel the ‘buzz’ of excitement in the air. On Monday, we voted for pizza to be our meal for our Roundup for Friday night. On Tuesday, we celebrated James’ 6^th birthday and Teacher Kali’s last day. It was a very sweet circle as we went around and asked each student to share what they are grateful for Kali for.

We came up with our cowboy names – which are adorable! – made some special videos for our Graduation ceremony and had fun playing in the water and having fun with our Honeybee hivemates. We cleaned out our cubbies, sent home extra clothes, our portfolios from this last semester of school, our Dad’s gifts, classroom décor that we made and got ready for our Roundup.

Tonight is our Roundup! We can’t wait to share ‘all the news that’s fit to print’ from our evening of special cowpoke fun.