May 4th - 7th, 2026: Mother's Day & Planting

Hello Firefly Families!

We had a fun week with all of the Fireflies talking about our mommies. We completed an emergent reader book about counting, colors and flowers, made a special gift for our moms by painting pots and planting flowers, made observations of our caterpillars (now chrysalides), responded to the journal prompt, "How does your mommy take care of you?", cut out flowers and sequenced them in order from largest to smallest and went on an ABC hunt around our room to see if we could match the lowercase letters to their capital letter. We read the books Are You My Mother?, Mother's Day Surprise, The Best Mother, and Mother's Day Surprise (Pinkalicious) and practiced learning how to write numbers 3, 4 & 5 in our HWT book. We also had our caterpillars turn into chrysalides! We can't wait to see the butterflies emerge in the next couple weeks. :)

Reminders:

*LECC Field Day: Thursday, May 21st

*End of the Year Party @ Tilles Park!: Wednesday, May 27th

Here are some pictures from our week!

Working on our high schooler lesson on families

Making numbers with Magnatiles

Planting flowers for Mother's Day

We now have chrysalides!

Garden sequencing

Lowercase letter hunt

We love our new VET kit!

Learning how to write our numbers!

Painting our Mother's Day pots

Working on our "observation journal" with our caterpillars

Working on TEXTURE with clay in Art Class

Flower Emergent Reader book

We love fresh, warm play dough!

Coming Up Next Week: Ocean!

Have a great weekend!

Lexi & Jaymi

April 27th - May 30th, 2026: Caterpillars and Butterflies!

Hello Firefly Families!

This week we learned all about butterflies and their life cycle! I think everyone's favorite part of the week was for sure our new caterpillar pets. :) We responded to the journal prompt, "On ___ the caterpillar ate (#) _____", practiced a "directed drawing" of a caterpillar and watercolored it, learned about the word SYMMETRY and made symmetrical butterflies, learned about metamorphosis and what stages the butterfly goes through in it's life cycle, and played a caterpillar "roll and cover" game with dice. We worked on numbers 1, 2 & 3 in our HWT book and we read the books Butterflies, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Caterpillar to Butterfly and Caterpillar and the Polliwog. 

"Butterfly Song" (to the tune of "Up on the Housetop")

First comes a butterfly and lays an egg,

Out comes a caterpillar with many legs.

Oh see the caterpillar spin and spin,

A little chrysalis to sleep in.

Oh, oh, oh! Wait and see.

Oh, oh, oh! Wait and see.

Out of the chrysalis, my oh my!

Out comes a pretty butterfly!

Reminders:

*SAVE THE DATE--Firefly End of Year Party at the Park!: Wednesday, May 27th--details TBD

Here are some pictures from our week!

Having fun with Miss Monica in music class

Roll & Cover game--some friends are matching 

while others are doing numeral to quantity

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LUKE!

Working hard on the life cycle of a butterfly

Creating symmetrical butterflies!

Beginning sounds practice for the question of the day

Graham helped me recycle our grocery store items!

Caterpillar finger painting to match numeral to quantity

Our new caterpillars!

Cool lesson in art about Henri Matisse and how 

he "paints" with scissors

How fast can you get your butterfly to 15?

Directed drawing of a caterpillar--these turned out so cute!

Cutting out butterflies at the writing center

Watercoloring our caterpillars

Coming Up Next Week: Mother's Day!

Enjoy the weekend!!!

Lexi & Jaymi