Nursery School Update

This Week in the Fours May 18, 2012

Music with Marcy AND Cantor Janet this week! The Fours continue to practice for graduation and they sound really terrific!

We continue to make observations of our butterflies each day. The class made some predictions of when the butterflies will emerge from their cocoons. Three hatched tody - we have Shabbat butterflies! We have been reading many books about butterflies throughout this time.One that the class particularly likes is Clara Caterpillar. It is a story about a cabbage caterpillar named Clara who becomes a cream-colored butterfly, and proves that being clever and contenet is better than being flashy. How does she prove this? Ask your four-year-old to tell you the story and about who saves the day.

The fours made a book about the life cycle of the butterfly. Each child drew their own pictures of the four stages of a butterfly's life.

We had so much fun and excitement with the chicks this week! It was breathtaking and so inspirational to watch them hatch out of their eggs and see them fluff up and become adorable baby chicks. Before the farmers came to take the chicks back to the farm, the children got to hold the chicks and say goodbye. They said the chicks felt soft and that their feet felt scratchy. Some of the comments were:

Their feet are pointy
They are yellow
They eat "Chicky Cheerios"
They peep very loudly
They have beaks
They are noisy, and our favorite,
They are saying "Momma, where are you?"

On Friday we got to celebrate Shabbat with Leo's Grandma and Poppy.

Shabbat Shalom!

Joyce and Tara