Attention Dear Parents:
Hear ye, hear ye! Wild Things in the making! Help your child to prepare his/her Wild Thing costume by sending in an oversized plain white tee-shirt on Monday.
Join us for two exciting events! First, parents are welcome to join us for our Where the Wild Things Are play next week. This play has been adapted from the book and the music is from an audio we found on youtube with some great wild rumpus sounds. The date for the play is May 4th and 5th for the children at school and then Friday, May 6th at 10:30 for parents and other friends. We will be having a potluck picnic directly after the play. Bring a blanket and something cool to drink. Please be sure that your potluck item does not include nuts or sesame, and we’d like to have as many gluten free options as possible.
We have a field trip in the works for Tuesday May 10th, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at Dr. Bombay’s Underwater Tea Party in Chandler Park. We will of course be taking MARTA and we would appreciate any parent volunteers for this event. We are very excited about our final field trip together as the children have been serving and enjoying tea time in preschool since October. This very important thread that has had a huge impact on the way the children communicate with each other a they share food and drink in a very civilized manner. We are ready to show the public how our preschool friends can serve themselves tea and enjoy conversation over tea.
Another important thread in preschool has been nature observations…Insect habitats and identification/ classification, caring for animals (specifically chickens) in their natural environment, and cultivating plants. You will see in our photos below how much the children love feeding the chickens and observing how they live and grow. Preschool friends found the answer to the question we had back in March, which is “Where are the chicken’s eggs?” Now that it is warm and the spring weather is here we have been finding eggs each day in the coop. The children have used the Nixon camera to take photos and photography seems to be a budding interest for many friends.
Our friend Lilla’s last day at the Willow School was today and we enjoyed preschool made cinnamon, millet muffins and low sugar gluten free sprinkle cookies. Thank you to Lilla’s mom for bringing in watermelon and grapes to share (oh, and ice pops later in the day!) We love you Lilla!
Enjoy the photos!
Lilla loves photography and here she takes pictures of shadows=very high art
Here Everett measures with his pencil to scale his drawing
Sam feeling free with the red hen
DIRT BATH TIME!!!
Here Effy and Lilla make “the biggest bee house ever”
Hazel’s Wild Thing
August’s Wild Thing
Carter’s Wild Thing
Asher’s Wild Thing
Effy saying “Be Still” and “Now Stop” after the wild rumpus
Claudia’s Wild Thing
Lilla’s Wild Thing
Effy loves her “white chicken” aka Blueberry
“I see her, she’s laying an egg” -Hazel
“Who is going to let the chickens out?
Finally we find eggs. The children discovered that in the winter months the chickens did not lay eggs but as soon as spring sprung we saw eggs!
“Why is she behind the curtain?” Claudia
Arabia takes a big leap!
“I’m blowing the dandelion seeds”
Hazel gets a good photo of her Dad
Hazel gets a good photo of Lilla
Adelyn finds another lady bug and she decides she will put the insect back in it’s home
Adelyn looks for a spot to relocate the ladybug
“She’s right there!” Adelyn
Thais’ feet are off the ground with joy!
More wild rumpus!
“I made a teeny tiny triangle” -Hazel
“I cut a semi-circle!”- Adelyn
Thais makes binoculars out of paper and ribbon
“I’m going to fill this box up at home with beautiful things and then I’ll bring it right back” -Billy
Benny likes to let the chickens out of the coop
Max’s boat!
Lilla’s party for her last day at The Willow School
Thank you to Lilla’s family for bringing in fruit and other snacks on Lill’s celebration day!
Lilla always likes to help with the dishes, even at her own party. Thank you Lilla! We are going to miss you very much.