Folktale and Fairy tale projects and friendly letters

The children were very excited to receive friendly letters from children in first grade at Sacred Hearts School in Bradford. We also worked on creating artwork to represent the main characters and settings from some of the folktales and fairy tales we have been reading.  Children also wrote poems to tell about a tale they read. See if you can guess the characters you see and the settings they belong to.

Artwork to celebrate SPRING

Reading letters from our pen pals 

Holding up our pen pal letters from our first grade friends in Bradford

Some of the letters we received from our pen pals

Our week in pictures!

We've had a fun and interesting week. We had a classroom mystery...as we discovered something ate through our entire crop of sunflower seedling sprouts during the weekend. The children suspect that some inchworms had a feast! We've planted new seeds and are hoping for better luck this time. We read a book about how sunflowers are like the sun, and learned about a little girl who planted and cared for her sunflower seed. 

Our reader's notebooks show our work and thoughts after reading a beautiful sunflower book

Kaitlin brought in some sprouting acorns, we can clearly see the root and sprout

Bean plants are growing!

Our sunflower sprouts were eaten over the weekend...

Our science journals show sketches of the sprouted acorn seeds

We are keeping track of our plant growth in these flip books

comparing our bean plants to our sunflower plants

Our week in pictures

bird sanctuary creation

Ania's art work is inspired by the bird feeders outside our windows

Thank you Helen for the mushroom farm, it was so fun to grow these mushrooms

This bucket of flowers made my day so bright!
I loved reading all the sweet statements from the children about their
time in first grade! I will treasure these flowers for years to come!

Parts of a plant: sorting station

We planted green bean and sunflower seeds last week

another bird sanctuary park!

Working on Rapunzel Puppets

Busy Bookmakers!

Picnic at the rug area for snack time to read all the flowers together!