Hi Cooper families,
What an exciting day we had on
Monday! When we came into the classroom after the weekend, we noticed that one
of our caterpillars had formed a chrysalis around itself and was no longer a
caterpillar. The children observed that it was not brown like the cocoon in the
story “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, instead it was a beautiful green colour
with gold dots. We still have 2 very hungry caterpillars in our enclosure,
which are eating up all of the juicy green leaves, so hopefully we will see
some more chrysalis’ in the next few days.
Each day when the children arrive,
the first thing that many of them do is check the caterpillar enclosure. They
comment about the changes or similarities of the caterpillars from the previous
days that they attended ELC. They are growing very fast! The children have been
using their observational skills and current knowledge of caterpillars to create
pictures of our caterpillars using coloured pencils and paper.
We are LOVING the story “My nest
is best” by P.D. Eastman. We can almost read the story off by heart. We love the story so
much that we have been making our very own nests using the same materials as Mr
and Mrs Bird did in the story. Lots of horse hair, mattress stuffing, sweater
wool, stockings and man hair (not Mr Richards' hair!!) went into making these very creative nests. We
will be hanging them on the tree in the Cooper room next week.
We have been practicing very hard
for our performance for Grandies Day on Tuesday the 4th of April. We can’t
wait to share the songs that we have been learning for this special day. Just a
reminder that there is limited parking, as the oval will not be open on this
day, so it would be best to get here with plenty of time to spare.
We hope that you have a lovely
weekend.
Love
Miss Gilbert and Mr Richards
