Garden Gazette May 26, 2023

News, pictures and videos from the classrooms.

The staff attended an amazing event last weekend, as an alum student celebrated her Bat Mitzvah, and her preschool teachers and her parents’ Children’s Garden community were all present. This family has quite a history with The Children’s Garden. Grandpa was one of the first Board members, and Mom also attended preschool at The Garden and was our Board President during the time that the school purchased The Garden Next Door. Such an amazing example of how The Garden community spreads out amongst the greater community. Bonnie, our school founder, was also present – just as she was for the mom’s Bat Mitzvah. Mazel Tov Siena! We love you!

With just 2 weeks of school remaining, the staff is trying to fit everything in that we need to do to send our families off for the summer break! No school Monday for Memorial Day.

Read on for Class News.

Ladybugs

What a fun week we had with our Bugs, soon to be Crickets! With just 4 classes left, we are enjoying the friendships and social emotional skills that have formed over this past school year. We learned a new nursery rhyme, “1,2, Buckle my Shoe”, and celebrated Orion’s 3^rd trip around the sun. We danced about our clothes at circle time, and our Ladybug moms had a coffee and work party on Tuesday, collecting sand from the Hatchery and doing a ‘bucket brigade’ to fill up our sandbox! What a fun way to build community and build up our sand supply once again!

We loved having big kid helpers Tuesday morning, Teddy and Charlie, and the Ladybugs loved playing with these big kid alums. Thanks Teddy and Charlie!

Crickets

Our Crickets have been ‘jumpy’ lately, feeling the emotions and experiencing some big growth over the last few weeks of school. We’ve noticed some legs getting longer and those friendship nets being cast wider and deeper. They are truly becoming Honeybees.

We had fun this week reading some different versions of “The Three Little Pigs”, including one story, called “The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig”. One more round of stamper books and acting out a folk tale before we break for the summer.

The Crickets started to work on a special gift for their dads that they will be bringing home next week. It is so hard to believe that we are stepping into June next week. No school on Monday for Memorial Day and that leaves us just 4 more Cricket classes this year.

Honeybees

We continued to practice counting by 10’s and began teaching the students about cross hatching into groups of 5. Two groups of 5 make up 10, and this will lead us to count by 5’s in the last few weeks of school. We also took advantage of having Thea in the classroom on Monday to finish an art project that will be one of the Graduation celebration surprises.

We are learning about our beloved namesake, the Honeybee, and are also enjoying some ‘tall tales’ as we gear up for our Roundup next week. Our Cowboy names that we have so far are adorable and we look forward to sharing them with you after the Roundup.

We had our alum friend, Matthew, as a big kid helper on Wednesday and he told our students a little bit about what to expect as they prepare for kindergarten. We have a few more alums joining us next week and they will also answer our Bee’s questions about their next step in their education.

We’ve got some fun events and some big emotions to go through in the next two weeks. We know parents are feeling all the feels, but please let us know if your child is feeling especially emotional or if you are seeing some different behavior as they process their final days at The Garden.

No school on Monday for Memorial Day and that leaves us with just 7 classes with these Bees.