April 20th - 23rd, 2026: BUGS & Earth Day!

Hello Firefly Families!

This week we focused on bugs and what we can do to help the Earth. We went on a rhyming hunt around our room to find rhyming words, measured bugs with Unifix cubes, went on a bug number hunt around school and practiced writing the numbers, completed the emergent reader book "I See Bugs", played in a bug sensory bin with "grass" and fake bugs, responded to the journal entry "How can YOU be an Earth Day Superhero?" and learned how to look for the recycling symbol and sort recycling from the trash. We also went on a trash hunt around the LECC to help clean up our Earth, sponge-painted Earths and made Earth Day crowns to celebrate. We read the books Bugs, In the Tall, Tall Grass, The Earth Book, 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World, It's Earth Day! and we watched the video "Bugs for Kids". 

Reminders:

*LECC Spring Fair: Saturday, April 25th from 10-12!

*NO SCHOOL: Friday, May 1st

*LECC Field Day: Thursday, May 21st--more info to come!

Here are some pictures from the week!

Loving music with Miss Monica!

Making Earths out of paper plates

Can you figure out the beginning sound?

Making Earth Day crowns!

Sorting recycling into different groups (also from trash!)

Collecting trash around the LECC!

Look how much trash we found on our quick trash walk!

Searching for bugs in the "grass"

Emergent reader books about BUGS

Rhyming hunt around the room!

Pattern block insects

Ripping green grass and cutting out ladybugs

Coming Up Next Week: Caterpillars & Butterflies!

Have a great weekend!

Lexi & Jaymi

April 13th - 16th, 2026: Food Groups & Healthy Eating!

Hello Firefly Families!

This week we learned all about our six food groups and how to eat healthy. We created the "Firefly Market" in our reading arch, sampled fruits & veggies, wrote a sentence writer story about our favorite foods, played multiple food group games, went on a scavenger hunt to write our "grocery list" and find beginning sounds for different foods, and responded to the journal prompt, "What is your favorite food?". We read the books The Fruit Group, The Vegetable Group, The Little Pea, The Grains Group, The Fats, Sweets and Oils Group, The Dairy Group, and The Protein Group and reviewed the letters T, U, V & W from HWT.

Reminders:

*LECC Family Garden Day: Come help us clean up the garden and get ready for planting! This Saturday April 18th from 9-11 am (flyer below!). I am part of the garden committee and I will be there :)

*LECC Beach Day!: Thursday, April 23rd

*LECC Spring Fair: Saturday, April 25th from 10 am - 12 pm. This is a FREE event with a gymnastics bus, face painter, balloon artist, book mobile, food trucks (for purchase) and more! 

Here are some pictures from our week!

Making "ice cream cones" with puffy shaving cream paint!

Going on a grocery list hunt!

Meeting our substitute music teacher! Miss Monica :)

Learning about "sometimes" foods

Checking out the police car!

Meeting Kali the police dog!

We went on a beginning sounds hunt for 

different foods!

Happy birthday to GRETA!

Our grass is growing!

Can you figure out the food groups to win BINGO?

We sorted foods out into different groups on "My Plate"

We loved playing in our "Firefly Market"

Our beans are growing!

Watering our grass--it's growing too!

Making very hungry caterpillars in Art Class!

Writing a sentence writer story about our favorite foods!

Fruit tasting!

Friday fun with our friend Peyton!

Coming Up Next Week: Bugs & Earth Day!

Have a great weekend!!

Lexi & Jaymi