April 6th - 9th, 2026: Planting!

Hello Firefly Families!

This week we learned all about the life cycle of a plant, how a seed grows, the parts of a flower and what plants need to grow. We planted our own grass seeds to watch them sprout and grow, sequenced the plant life cycle, cut out and glued the parts of a plant, responded to the journal prompt, "What's Growing in Your Garden?", and are doing an experiment with soaked beans, a wet papertowel and a baggie taped on the window--will it grow? We reviewed the letters Q, R & S in HWT. We watched videos on the plant life cycle and parts of a plant and we also read the books Grow Flower, Grow!, Planting Seeds and We are Growing!. Our favorite song for the week was this one, they had so much fun with it! It really helped them learn the parts of a plant and what it needs to grow.

Reminders:

*Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences: Week of April 13th

*LECC Garden Day: Saturday, April 18th

*LECC Spring Fair: Saturday, April 25th

Here are some pictures from our week!

Will our beans grow?!

Planting beans in a jar as a class to see what happens!

Reviewing the plant life cycle!

Prepping our beans

Watering our grass!

Working hard in the flower shop!

Parts of a Plant

Putting out our bird feeders

Planting grass

Greta sharing about her new baby brother!

Plant life cycle sequencing

Kindergarten name practice

What's growing in your garden?

What do plants need? We all added something plants do/do not need.

Coming Up Next Week: Food Groups/Healthy Eating!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Lexi & Jaymi

March 30th - April 2nd, 2026: Birds!

Hello Firefly Families!

This week we had fun learning about birds! We cut out and painted our own birds & made their nests, went on a pinecone hunt to find pinecones to make bird feeders with peanut butter & birdseed, and played a rolling dice game with birds to get them back to their nests. Since it rained on Thursday afternoon, we will put our bird feeders near the garden next Monday and will check on them later next week to see if any birdies eat them! We also made some "bird watchers" from paper towel tubes, and went on a "backyard bird hunt" to see which ones we could find around the building. We read the books Birds for Kids, Grumpy Bird, and Mama Built a Little Nest. We are still reviewing the alphabet and this week we focused on M, N, O & P.

Reminders:

*NO SCHOOL: Tuesday, April 7th for PD Day

*If you have any empty & clean food containers please send them our way next week for our Firefly Market while we are learning about food groups! We are trying to have all food groups represented. 

*Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences: Tuesday, April 14th (sign up HERE if you haven't yet)

*Please make sure to sign up for KINDERGARTEN if you are attending Ladue!

*Save the Date: LECC Garden Day on Saturday, April 18th. See flyer below!

*Save the Date: Saturday, April 25th--LECC Spring Fair! More info to come.

Here are some pictures from the week!

A couple of finished birds in their nests

Friday fun!

Greta and her bird feeder!

Would you like to come to our Garden Shop?

We found a Goldfinch!

Practicing our letters on our bird hunt

Using pinecones to make bird feeders!

Making a spring tree!

Ending sounds practice...tricky!

Pinecone hunt!

Putting feathers on our birds!

Making our "bird watchers"

Can you match the birds?

Lowercase letter and letter sounds matching!

Finishing up our flower garden in Art Class

Making signs for our garden shop

Can you get your bird to it's nest?

Making nests 

Coming Up Next Week: Planting!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Lexi & Jaymi