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This week we continued learning about flowers. At pretend play, the children pretended to plant flowers, used garden tools and design their flower arraignments. At art table, the children use Q-tips to paint, made flower paper plates and used toilet paper to make flowers. At sensory table, the children played with letters and garden tools. They found letters and produce their sound. At literacy table, the children used letter stickers to make flowers. The children matched upper case to lower case. At manipulative table, the children played with Legos, count nuts 1:1 correspondence, measured flowers with snap cubes and played with floor puzzles. This week, we said Goodbye to Stella and Ms. Sherri until next year. The children made a card and Stella took pictures with each child.  We can’t believe that this was our last study for this year. The children learned so much and we are so proud. The next 3 weeks of school, we will help the students to transition to kindergarten to lea...

This week we continued learning about flowers. We learned how the plants/ flowers drink water. Plants drink water through a process called osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of a liquid into a living thing, creating a balance of that liquid. For example, if a plant needs water it will use osmosis to pull water through the roots until it has enough water to photosynthesize or make food. We made carnations and colored water to teach and observe how the flowers drink water and how change color. At dramatic center, the children used a gardening pad and pretended to plant flower/plants and continued playing with flowers. At art table, the children painted flowers and used tissue paper to make colorful flowers. At manipulative, the children sorted flowers by size, used snap cubes to measure flowers and wrote numbers and used pattern blocks to follow patterns and make flowers. At the sensory table, the children played with sponges and watering cans. At the literacy table, the children are spell...