Earth Day is April 22, so in celebration the Coal City Early Childhood Center is ordering Earth Day T-Shirts! 

This 100% cotton, pre-shrunk t-shirt is sapphire blue with cartoon frogs on the front, saying "Reduce- Reuse- Recycle, It's a Green Thing". 

We will be collecting orders up until March 1st, so please submit your order form and payment to your classroom teacher or in the office. 

Please leave a comment on this post if you have any questions!

**I sent home an order form with each student, but attached below is the Earth Day t-shirt order form.

Today in celebration of Valentine's Day, three of my Kindergarten classes created Valen-Slime (Thanks to Mama Papa Bubba Blog for the idea). We watched as the slime took form, observed with our senses, and then each student got to take some Valen-Slime home!

Valen-Slime Recipe (Makes about 20 fist-size servings)

Ingredients:

This week we will be learning about President's Day, the celebration of George Washington's birthday. George Washington was our first president and a very special person in our history. We also can take this time to learn about Abraham Lincoln because his birthday falls so close to Washington's (February 12th). 

In addition to learning about these special Americans, we will also be doing a President's Day craft (Thanks to The First Grade Parade for this great idea!). 

Here is an example that I created on my iPad, but my students will be creating their own paper plate George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, complete with hat and wig or beard!

This week Kindergarten learned the difference between things we need and things we want. We read the book The Bag I'm Taking to Grandma's and discussed what our basic needs were versus the things that are just nice to have. 

Here is an example of a Kindergarten student's Needs vs. Wants book. Each student came up with two examples for wants. Kindergarten also completed an assessment for this unit, sorting pictures for Needs and Wants into a T-chart.