Today we did art all day, well actually we did plant sweet potatoes and write about art and have Spanish and music...but mostly we did art. We started by going to the garden and preparing our garden bed for planting. Every year the Kindergarteners plant sweet potatoes that grow easily over the summer and then when school starts again the 1st graders harvest the sweet potatoes. We love Ms. Nicole's great ideas about gardening. The Wylde Center is the best! We then headed back inside to make our Eric Carle pictures. Last week the children created paper just like the famous author/illustrator Eric Carle. Today they decided what they wanted to make and used the paper in the art of collage to create their picture. They did such a wonderful job. After they finished they then wrote stories about their picture. I hope you saw this creation today after school. We then went back to the garden to plant the sweet potatoes. We learned that they are not planted as seeds like our radishes and turnips, but rather as 'slips'. Who says kids don't learn anything during the last week of school! After lunch and recess we had more art centers. The children made fish prints and Frootloop necklaces. They also asked me to get an octopus so they could observe that weird creature. What a fun afternoon. Gotta love Kindergarten.
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About meI grew up in Florida and have lived in Decatur since arriving at Agnes Scott College to get my Mathematics degree. After teaching High School math for a few years, I worked at preschools while raising my 3 sons. I obtained a Masters degree in Early Childhood Education and taught in Dekalb and Gwinnett Counties for 10 years before coming to Westchester when it reopened in 2013. Archives
May 2024
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