Finishing the Week!

 We continued our vegetable taste tests by voting on cauliflower and carrots on Thursday and Friday. Monday we'll have a last veggie vote to see which veggies are our favorites. We've also been working on a calendar pattern this month, and observing the weather.

We continued talking about the letter Gg. It's a tricky letter to write, so we practiced coming up to the big chart paper to give it a try. Start like an O, then stop and straight across! At centers, we used the giant chart paper from our circle times to practice lots of writing with our friends. Using the BIG paper and markers was a fun new way to write! 

We read our Let's Find Out magazine about Ireland. We talked about how Ireland is an island, and so green that it even looks green from space! We also learned a bit about leprechauns. Did you know leprechauns make shoes for the fairies? After taking turns reading, we listened for the syllables/ beats in some words. It's tricky how some short words can have more beats than long words.

We had a couple of St. Patrick's Day projects to work on:

Here we are adding many colors of gorgeous glitter to some green shamrocks:

We made little potato leprechaun planters. First we scooped out the top of a potato. Then we added some face details with tacky glue. That had to dry overnight. On Friday, we added a bit of cotton, some grass seed and dirt to the hole. A little water, and hopefully soon we will have some grassy green hair sprouting out of our leprechauns' heads!