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

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