Farm Dramatic Play

The dramatic play area has been changed into a farm. The children painted the barn and are making a tractor out of boxes today. They love playing with the animals and doing the farm chores.

Earth Day Ideas

The children came up with ideas on how they could help the Earth.

Recycling Center

The dramatically area has been changed into a recycling center. The children will dress up as workers and practice sorting skills by taking the materials and sorting them into paper, metal, glass, plastic, compost, and cannot be recycled.

April Newsletter and Song Lyrics

 Hello everyone!

We have started our study of recycling, reducing, and reusing.I started the conversation by talking about how everything we do either makes the Earth a happier or sadder place to live and how important it is to do all we can to protect the Earth. This week we are talking about reusing materials. Examples in our classroom of reused materials are sawdust in the sensory table, cardboard boxes, tree rings and rocks in the block area, used food boxes in the “grocery store”, and an assortment of bottle caps to sort by color, size, or type.  We will be making robots out of boxes and tubes Thursday and Friday this week. Next week, I will change the dramatic play area into a recycling center. They will sort recycling materials into glass, metal, plastic or paper.  Our unit will culminate with an Earth Day activity on Friday 4/16. Rhonda from CSWD will be a guest speaker to discuss the correct way to recycle. I will be sending a link for you to join this activity if you would like to.

We are enrolling children for next school year. If you know of anyone whose child is 3 or 4 years old and looking for a preschool experience, please have them contact me at 802-264-5894 or at nancy.smith@colchestersd.org . The deadline for entering the lottery is Friday, April 2, 2021.

Please take a moment to complete the parent satisfaction survey. It can be found at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YoocQvBQxqkVvyGuwvhAiKFOMUiOXg5EEINUUyf7MgY/edit We use the information collected to inform our practice and improve our program. Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this.

Dates To Remember:

Monday, April 5, 2021 Zoom with Ms. Pam from Burnham Memorial Library

Friday, April 16th: Rhonda from CSWD guest speaker

April 19-April 23: School Closed for Spring Break

Recycling Theme Song Lyrics

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Sung to The More We Get Together)

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Recycle, recycle

Reduce, reuse, recycle

It’s easy to do

Cause your trash

And my trash

Make up way

Too much trash

Reduce, reuse, recycle

It’s easy to do.

We Recycle (Sung to Frere Jacques)

We recycle! 

We recycle!

Yes, we do!

Yes, we do!

Caring for our planet,

Caring for our planet.

Is easy to do!

Is easy to do!

Earth Day Song (sung to Twinkle, Twinkle)

Earth day, Earth day,

Comes once a year.

But we should make our

Message clear.

Love and clean our Earth

Each day.

Make that plan a plan to stay.

Earth day, Earth day,

Comes once a year.

Love and care for our 

Earth so dear.