Poindexter Press for April 28th-May 2nd, 2008

Dear Parents,
We have many things “growing” on in our classroom! Our beanstalks have gotten quite tall—not quite the height needed to climb them yet! The AM class helped to plant vegetables and those are in the greenhouse off to a great start. The PM class planted Wisconsin Fast Plants and they are almost ready to be pollinated! ☺ We have also had several of our Painted Lady butterflies emerge from their chrysalides this week and we will be releasing them sometime next week.
We read the Big Book titled “Growing Vegetable Soup” by Lois Elhert this week and explored how she makes her illustrations. The children all enjoyed the fact that she labels many of her illustrations so that they could copy the words into their own writing. It sparked quite an interest in labeling everything! ☺ We made a list of all the vegetables we could think of and the list was quite long and included some not-so-popular vegetables (edamame, okra). This lead to the AM class asking about what the seeds looked like for vegetables, so I tried to find as many as I could and bring them in. Both classes passed the seeds around and studied them with magnifying glasses. We decided to plant them to see what they looked like. Did you know broccoli grows quite quickly? We planted Monday and already have ½ inch sprouts! The peas are not too far behind!
Be sure to make a note of all the upcoming dates in May—it’s a busy month for all and you don’t want to miss it! ☺

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Have a wonderful weekend—check out the blog!!
Kristen Poindexter ☺


Important Dates:

May 8th- Muffins with Mom (Moms come in and enjoy a muffin and juice with your Kindergartener (8:30 and 12:00)

May 12th-Last day to return books to the Media Center

May 16th-Science Stretch Day (more info. To follow)

May 22nd- Kindy 500

May 27th- Retirement Open House for Mrs. Leininger, Mrs. Crook, and Mrs. Lach-Stone

May 27th-Last day for PM Kindergarten

May 28th-Last day for AM Kindergarten