Well, wasn’t that Art Show amazing? We are so proud of all the beautiful art pieces that our students created and so thrilled with their dancing! We hope you enjoyed the performances as well and have hung your child’s artwork in a place of honor in your home or office. We have seen Children’s Garden art throughout the years hanging in Seattle penthouses, Law offices, several professional buildings, at the Swedish Hospital Issaquah campus, not to mention the hundreds of framed pieces we see in homes of recent alums and alums of 30 or more years ago! They are such memorable pieces of this brief moment in time.

In the classroom, we have turned our attention to mothers and all the wonderful important women in our lives. The children have started to craft their Mother’s Day gifts and we will send those home next week. We are practicing our recitations for the Butterfly Teas which are held the first hour of class on Tuesday for Bugs and Bees and Wednesday for Crickets. The Butterfly Teas, like Leprechaun Day, will start with a photo opp in Brin’s office and then continue in the Movement Room, before we head outside to the deck and the playground for a lovely tea party and refreshments before we say goodbye to our guests and the students continue their day at school. We hope you can join us for this celebration of spring and butterflies, tea and cookies! While this has traditionally been a day for mothers and grandmothers to join us, we welcome the children to invite a special family member or grown up that they would like to have a tea party with. Please let us know if a grandparent is joining us in addition to the ‘main’ special guest, so that we can plan accordingly.

And, tonight! Of course! Our main fundraiser of the year and amazing party for the parents and adult Garden community, “The Kentucky Derby…And They’re Off!” We can’t wait to have so much fun with you all this evening. We are ready to celebrate and support!

Ladybugs

We had fun this week making our Mother’s Day gifts and practicing for our Butterfly Tea Party next Tuesday at 8:15.

The Ladybugs had fun on Tuesday as we started to make a new peekaboo book called “I’m a Little Teapot”. We are getting ready! We also started making some sweet Mother’s Day presents. We had Emily in the classroom with us on Thursday and we had a couple of mothers interviewing the Bugs for the Ladybug yearbook.

Crickets

The Crickets had a great time making Mother’s day gifts for the most important women in our lives and practiced for our Butterfly Tea Party next Wednesday at 8:15. It is so lovely to hear how much these Crickets love their mommies.

We talked about eggs and what animals come from eggs. It was fun to hear what the children know about eggs before our unit learning about new babies born in the springtime. We read a beautiful story called “An Egg is Quiet” and later in the week, we read “A Nest is Noisy”. These are beautiful books, illustrations and words, showing all the different types of eggs and nests in the animal kingdom.

A few weeks ago, the staff found some wonderful ‘feeling’ rubber stamps to use with our social emotional curriculum. The Crickets used the stamps to make books showing an emotion and then another stamp to represent why you would feel that way. Cute stamper books! Hope you have fun reading them with your Cricket. Have them read them to you! They wrote them! They know how to ‘read’ them!

Honeybees

We celebrated Jeffrey and Oliver’s birthdays this week and we learned a new poem. The teachers are all impressed with how quickly our Bees learn a new poem. They know this new poem better than the teachers!

We started some beautiful Mother’s Day gifts and we practiced for the Butterfly Tea next Tuesday at 12:15. On Thursday, we had Jamie Rose subbing for Emily in class and she led the kids making some beautiful Mother’s Day presents.

As we approach the final 6 weeks of class, we are noticing some big emotions with our students. Please check out this article The Garden to Kindergarten ~ a message from Teacher Donna in the The Children’s Garden Student Experience section of our Curriculum page about the transition from preschool to Kindergarten.