Spring is here!

We have been enjoying the beautiful weather outside at recess the past couple weeks! It was the perfect time to jump into a unit about spring! We talked a lot about the things we start to hear, smell and see as our winter season turns into spring. We made group posters and our own mini books on this topic.  We also talked a lot about rain and weather.  Our first spring activity was to make an umbrella person. There is a cute poem that goes along with it to tell you why you cannot see the umbrella person’s face.

                          

We also talked a lot about rain and why it is important. First we had a survey asking whether or not we liked rain.

                 

We sponge painted a rain drop and then wrote four important facts about rain. They are writing complete sentences all by themselves!

    

Of course, we had to talk about where rain comes from! CLOUDS! We read the book Little Cloud by Eric Carle and created our own clouds using shaving cream and glue. Then we wrote about what our cloud looked like.

Sometimes it looks like a flower, but it is actually a cloud in the sky.

Sometimes it looks like a Santa Claus, but it is just a cloud in the sky.

Sometimes it looks like a dirt bike, but it is just a cloud in the sky.

Another fun thing about spring is that we get to be outside and sometimes fly kites! We turned this into a math activity and made a design on our kite that was SYMMETRICAL! They first made their design using shape blocks, then used paper shapes to glue onto their kite. They turned out awesome!

  

The last thing we talked about was what trees look like during the spring. The buds start to come out and they look like tiny flowers! We dipped the ends of our pencils into pink paint to make groups of 5 blossoms on our trees. We have been working on counting by 5’s so it was FUN and GREAT PRACTICE!

Happy Spring!