Summer fun is almost over...

We are wrapping up our final week of summer camp!  What a fun and exciting summer we have had at Discovery Garden.  We will miss a few of our friends as they go on to new schools, kindergarten and first grade. 

This will be Ms. Brianna's last week.  She will be heading back to school as well, but will come back to volunteer from time to time.  Recently, we have had Mrs. Karen visit the school to see if she is the right fit for our school.  We all enjoyed having her and she will be replacing Ms. Brianna this school year.  Ms. Lindsay and I are so excited to get the new school year started.  We have so many exciting things planned including monthly field trips, more cooking projects and possibly weekly short trips.  We will be moving the science center to the math room and freeing up the science room for an additional small classroom.

School will be closed September 6th and 7th.  We will begin the first day of school for Tuesday/Thurs kids on Thursday September 8th.  Monday the 12th will be the first day for M/W students.  School is from 9-1 unless you have made special arrangements to bring your child a bit earlier.  Please try to be on time so that we may start morning meetings on time.   This means you can drop your child off to school between 9-9:30am.  The students will have free play during drop off time.  If you have any questions feel free to email us.

If your child is 2.5-3.5 he/she will be with Ms. Lindsay and Mrs. Karen.  If you have any questions or concerns you can email Ms. Lindsay at our school email and she will get back to you.  If your child is in Ms. Salouma's class you can also send her an email.

Please don't forget to bring in immunization forms as soon as you are able to.

We are beginning to plan our back-to-school picnic, but first we would like to see which day would work best for everyone: Saturday September 17 or Saturday September 24, 12pm-3pm. Let us know your thoughts and we'll get back with a finalized date!

If you have any other questions, please feel free to call/email. Thanks!

Space Week

This is the last week of summer camp! Can you believe it?? I sure can’t! We are wrapping up our summer with space J

Monday:

·         moon crater art projects

·         If You Decide to go to the Moon by Faith McNulty and Mooncake by Frank Asch

·         moonwalking

·         science: explore and observe moon

·         snack: peaches and cucumber

Tuesday:

·         solar system spray bottle painting scene

·         On Earth by G. Brian Karas and Nearest to the Sun: the Planet Mercury by Nancy Loewen

·         math: roll the dice star activity

·         science: planets and stars

·         snack: bananas and carrots

Wednesday:

·         art: rockets

·         Astronaut Handbook by Meghan McCarthy and Sheep Blast Off by Nancy Shaw

·         toothpick and marshmallow rocket building

·         science: Alka-Seltzer rocket experiment

·         math: pattern block rocket

·         snack: watermelon and peas

Thursday:

·         art: comet

·         Stars, stars, stars by Bob Barner and The Sun: Our Nearest Star by Franklyn Mansfiled Branley

·         shape constellation activity

·         literacy: beginning letter sound/letter recognition comet activity

·         snack: nectarines and cucumber

Friday:

·         solar system collage

·         Space Boy by Leo Landry and Flip the Flaps Planet Earth by Mike Goldsmith

·         science: planet classification

·         math: roll the dice star activity

·         snack: watermelon and romaine lettuce

I also found a book of space poems at the library- And Then There Were Eight: Poems About Space by Laura Purdie Salas. We will read a couple of these poems each day! This is a great book of space poems!!

Pictures From Author Study Week!

Here are some more pictures from last week. Sorry for the late post J

                                                                      Tie dying

          Paper art scenes of new stories that students would want Lois Ehlert to write about.

                                                          Making vegetable soup

                      Art projects that went along with A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

                Making pizza! This went along with the book Curious George and the Pizza Party

busy kids

pictures

Author Study

This week we are studying authors! Yay for books! Each day we will focus on a different author, create art projects and engage in activities around the books we are reading.

Monday: Kevin Henkes

·         My Garden and Lily’s Plastic Purse

·         Garden scene art project

·         Money sort

·         Flower pattern block

·         Snack: peaches and cucumber

Tuesday: Lois Ehlert

·         Nuts to You! and Growing Vegetable Soup

·         Paper art story scene

·         Class letter to Lois Ehlert

·         Song: Busy Squirrels and Out in the Garden

·         Cooking project: vegetable soup (to go with the storyJ)

·         Snack: nectarines and snap peas

Wednesday:  David Shannon

·         Too Many Toys, A Bad Case of Stripes, Alice and the Tooth Fairy

·         Oil pastel art/Bad Case of Stripes art project

·         Toy Swap

·         Stripe pattern activity

·         Song: I Love to Brush my Teeth and Manners are the Way

·         Snack: watermelon and peas

Thursday: H.A. Rey

·         Curious George and the Pizza Party and Curious George Rides a Bike

·         Recycled sailboat activity

·         Song: 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and If You Want to Eat Some Pizza

·         Cooking project: mini pizzas

Friday: Field Trip!! Jetty Island J

**Toy Swap: This activity will go along with the story Too Many Toys by David Shannon. If possible, we would like for your student to bring in 2 toys. From the group of toys that are brought in, they will get to choose one new toy to take home, and the other toy that they choose will be donated. Let us know if you have any questions! Thanks!