Little Busy Bodies Preschool
Newsletter
April 9th & 11th
Dear Preschool Parents,
I can’t believe how fast time is passing! The days of April are dropping like flies, and graduation is right around the corner!
The first book we read this week as we continue on with our rhyming and lyrical unit was “Jamberry,” by Bruce Degen. This is a book of silly, yet joyful rhymes. A whimsical story of a bear and a young boy who frolic through a magical berry land in their quest to make jam. They play in strawberry fields forever, rumble and ramble in blackberry brambles, and topple their canoeberry with blueberries. After coming up with several of our own silly berries, we made a berry smoothie that was delicious! Then the children danced to music, as the boy and the bear did in the book, using streamers! The kids LOVED the streamers!
The second book we read was “This Is the Way,” by Charles Fuge. I absolutely LOVE the bright and colorful illustrations in this book. I introduced this book by posing some animal riddles to the children, which they loved answering. Once they got the idea that our book was about animals, I asked them to come up with some sound words that we tend to use to describe the sounds and movements of these animals. They came up with words like boing, slither, waddle, neigh, and squawk. We talked about sound words or onomatopoeias. I told them that our book today was a rhyming, lyrical story about animals that used many sound words just like the ones we had brainstormed. After our story, we finished up with a game of animal charades.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
--Last day of school—May 23rd (Graduation Program)
REMINDER
*KING/ QUEEN OF THE WEEK April 16th & 18th: Leah
See you next Monday! Have a nice weekend.
Sincerely,
Amber
