Here are some pictures of PJ Day and Water Day! We watched "The Letter Factory" on PJ Day and the kids also had a lot of fun doing the activities on Water Day.

 The kids enjoyed wearing their pajamas to school!

 What a great looking group!

 At this station the kids were putting toilet paper in water with soap shavings...what a gooey mess!

 Chipping away at ice to get out the bugs.

Blowing bubbles

A Day at the Zoo and Upcoming Events

We had a great time at the zoo on Thursday! The kids behaved wonderfully and I want to give the parents that went a great big "THANK YOU". Mrs. Deb and I really appreciated the extra help keeping track of our kids!

Upcoming Events

• May 8 Pajama Day
• May 9 Water and Bubble Day
• May 10 Muffins with Moms and Donuts with Dads (also rain-out make-up day for Water Day)
• May 3 - 17 HFYH Silent Auction
• May 17 Graduation at 6:30 in the gym. Please wear your HFYH t-shirt and NO FLIP FLOPS

 We were able to enjoy the nice weather last week on the playground!

The kids had a good time at the Easter Party on Thursday!

They played Easter bingo

and made an Easter bunny craft using their handprints.

This week we talked about the first day of spring and how to look for signs of spring outdoors. We made umbrellas out of wax paper and tissue paper and hung them in our window. We read a book "Aliens Love Underpants". It was a very silly book!

 Alfie the monkey visited the kids during library time. Many of them were curious as to who was behind the curtain :)

 We played with green spaghetti to see how it feels.

We got to enjoy the warm weather outdoors a couple of days. Yay!

 When our class returned from library on Thursday we found that a leprechaun had visited our room and made a mess...turning over chairs and scattering our Easter grass. His footprints were all over the table.

 The leprechaun did leave us gold coins everywhere.

 We had to pick up his mess and put things back where they belonged.

 The kids all got a chance to play Mrs. Deb's guitar that starts with a G.

 When it wasn't their turn to play the guitar they danced. We have some pretty good dancers!

This week we learned the letter C and the number 7. We made crabs out of a C and caterpillars out of pom poms. Check them out on the walls.

We have a couple of new centers in our room: a sand table and rock box. The kids really enjoy those. They can also look for "gold" coins in the grass box in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day.

 We really hope that the leprechaun doesn't visit us next week! Last year he visited and really messed up our classrooms.

We had fun playing Alphabet Bingo so we can learn to recognize our letters.

Last week we reviewed the letters O, Q, D and the numbers 4, 5, 6. We learned that on the 7th day of creation God rested after seeing all that He had made was good. We celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday by pinning the green eggs and ham on a plate. Check out the ducks we made hanging in our room for the letter D.

 We are going on a bear hunt with our flashlights.

 Still looking for the bear but all we found were teachers.

 We made owl puppets for the letter O.

 Our owl puppet show.

 Mrs. Vickie was a Cat in the Hat for her birthday. Mrs. Deb brought in a delicious cake and cupcakes for us.

This week we had a fun time at our Valentine's Day party! We made crafts, played a game, got to decorate our own snack and got to hear a neat story! Thank you to all of the parents who helped out and visited with us!
We also had a lesson today about handicapped children using dolls provided by Easter Seals. The kids were really interested. Next week the kids will be hop-n-ing to raise money for Easter Seals. Please check out this information in your child's binder.

We had a great time in class this week! We created a rice box where the kids can dig for "treasures". We are setting up new literacy centers so they can learn more things. Check out the poster they made of the ocean hanging above their coat hooks and the Valentine wreaths hanging in our room. They also got to squeeze an orange and make their own orange juice! We are looking forward to our Valentine's Day party next week!

Check out pictures of our class at cMoe on HFYH facebook page.

The kids love Library class with Mrs Deb! She makes it so much fun and educational!

My class along with Ms. Crystal's  and Mrs. Tracy's class painted a banner on the third day of creation: God made the land and plants. We used our handprints for the land (dirt) and bottle imprints for the flowers.