Flowers have been a big part of our classroom recently. There are windows all along the east side of our room and recently all of the Cherry trees were in bloom. They looked like snow all over the trees. This was a flower work - I got this idea from online. You take tissue paper squares and fold them over the end of a pencil and then glue them on paper to make flowers. It is very cute. Here are some the children did...
We have many bugs (and other critters) in our room now. Our Ootheca (praying mantis egg case) just hatched. We have hundreds of baby praying mantises now. It hatched during circle when I was walking around showing the Ootheca. It happened so fast. We are now feeding them aphids. We will let most of them go and keep a few to watch grow. We have bullfrog tadpoles. One has his hind and forelegs now. The children are very excited about that. We have the mealworms, red wrigglers, and just recently let go the ladybugs. Another latest addition are the silkworms. They are eating the Mulberry leaves like crazy.
Another work I put out was Moon sand with a Spring twist. I added cut up egg cartons, small fake flowers, bugs, etc. to make a garden. The children would put the moonsand in the carton, like dirt and add the flowers and make a garden in the sand. It was a popular work.
It's almost time for conferences so the next few weeks will be busy!
