Dear Honeybee Families,
We have made it through the first week with our eggs, and it will start to get more exciting from here on out.
These eggs were each individually labelled by breed and mailed from Georgia. Is anyone else interested in being my back up baby chick home? A Honeybee is taking four, and my neighbor is also interested. They’ll be ready to go home the last day of school.
Anna found this amazing model set so that the kids can see what’s happening inside each day. This week I’ll also share a video model. We’ll create more chicken art this week, have a water and wisteria spring sensory bin…. and we are getting painted lady caterpillars tomorrow! It really does feel like spring is here with all the animal babies, buttercups, and rain showers.
We’ll still sneak in some seed experiments and Honeybee books and art. This week we are going to bake… and eat some bread. I’ll check in with some of you with dietary restrictions. My recipe is just flour, salt, yeast, and water… and I’ll figure out a gluten free option. Our room is going to smell really good.
Your Mother’s Day art was really beautiful. They really embraced the layers…. and the oil pastel secret messages. They were very proud of what they saw, and I hope your Mother’s Day was wonderful.
I have a special gift I want to give the Honeybees this year. Something I’ve never done in this class. I want to go on a field trip. On Wednesday May 25 at 9 I’d like to meet all of you at Glade Road Growing for a Farm Tour. Each child would need a parent to attend with them. It is an incredible tour, usually with the whole farm family… their kids too. If there is someone who can’t attend with their child we could perhaps find another parent to drive them and be their person. We could have snack at the farm and then you could drop off at school for the rest of the day if your child is a full day kid. This would be for ALL 13 Honeybees, even the Tuesday/ Thursday kids. Sally Walker and JP, the farmers, are amazing with kids. I’ve taken older kids there several times, and we got to collect eggs. The kids wanted to know why the eggs were HOT… and WET. Freshest eggs ever.
This week we’ll sing chicken songs and dance chicken dances.
