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After a rainy start to the week, spring was in full bloom at the end of the week.  The girls again enjoyed indoor recess activities but were thrilled to get back outside and play with all the fun toys in the shed.  The kids love when it is nice enough for the teachers to open the shed and out come tractors, cars, scooters, etc.  They have such fun with their imaginations and all that fun equipment.  The children learned about a different thing you see in the spring each day.  Monday they talked about Robins.  The girls told us all about the way a mama bird feeds her babies and they thought it was both gross and interesting at the same time.  They made adorable robins using several paper plates- this was a 2-day project and they are super cute…. just not sure where to put them at home! Tuesday they talked about pussy willows and made their own on paper using parts of pussy willow plants.  Wednesday…. can’t remember that one.  But Thursday was the last day before vacation so they each made adorable chick baskets and filled them with Easter grass.  Each child got to have a lollypop and chocolate to take home, yum yum.  Next week is April vacation. We don’t have any big plans, just being home, hopefully enjoying the weather outside as much as we can and many play dates!  Here are pics of the robins and baskets.

Today was a big day in the Campfield home.  Abby and Emma had Kindergarten Registration! We picked out their clothes last night, took baths and made sure to get a good night’s rest.  This morning they were so excited and just wanted it to be time to go to the  big school.  We arrived at our 10:00 appointment in the kindergarten hallway and met the guidance counselor.  Abby and Emma were brought into the classroom next door to do some “fun activities” while the parents had to do “homework.”  The girls’ activities comprised of various readiness skills for kindergarten, including shape recognition, color, as well as fine motor skills of hopping and following directions.  I am sure they passed with flying colors.  These activities were done with the three K teachers… it will be so fun to see which one they end up with next year.  Here is a pic of them before we left the house- they are just growing up so quickly.  I am so proud to be their mommy!

The first week of April usually marks springtime… and the children felt it in the classroom last week for sure.  Monday started with some rain but it dried out quickly on the playground for the rest of the week.  The boys and girls talked about spring, read books on it and did springtime activities.  They each came home with a cute picture of ducks waddling across the paper using their fingerprints and various shapes after reading the wonderful book, Make Way For Duckings.  They also played Duck Duck Goose in keeping with the theme and staying indoors for recess.  The girls were delighted to play with playdough and the sand table indoors as those don’t come out too often.   The week ended with outdoor play thankfully and Abby even discovered the first flower blooming in the play area- she was pretty excited!  We all can’t wait for spring to officially be here and with that, the warmer temperatures!

I am behind again… this is getting to be a pattern.  I do have an excuse though, I caught a virus over the weekend and was in bed.  So, let’s get back to NNS!  Last week was all about the alphabet.  The children did all sorts of clever activities with letters.  I was super excited to sub again on Wednesday.  I was asked to come up with a lesson and teach it as well- it was wonderful.  I did a lesson on letters in your name.  We sang a song called, ‘there was a farmer had a friend’ and we replaced BINGO with the names of the children in the class.  I held out papers with each child’s name and we spelled the names- it was a ball.  Then the children were each given a cup of alphabet pasta and had to find the letters in their names.  The tricky part of this was that the pasta was in all upper case letters so we had to talk about that a bit.  The lesson went really well and the teachers complimented me on it- success!  The girls came home with potted grass on Thursday and looking carefully, you can see that the grass is growing in the shape of an A and an E- those teachers are ALWAYS thinking.