Utopia Preschool

The sun was out and beaming at the beginning of this week. We made sure to get our daily dose of Vitamin D by spending more time outdoors. On Monday we decided to go on a nature walk. We each wrote our name on a brown paper bag and collected leaves and flowers. After our walk we went back into the classroom and counted how many flowers each child had collected. Some children didn't pick up any flowers and others counted up to 14 flowers. The children glued most of their findings onto paper and the rest they decided to take home. What's gonna work? Teamwork! Our Utopia students are such great helpers!Each child took a chair from our classroom to the yard. The teachers provided sponges and soapy water. Each child took a turn scrubbing their chair. Now our chairs are sparkling clean! After all the fun, but hard work the teachers set up a new sprinkler. The children loved running through it. Because it was so hot outside we dried up quickly afterwards. Kindergarten is gett...

The weather was perfect for the outdoors this week. The children maximized the use of the yard by riding the bikes, building sand castles, watering the plants, and playing in the play structure. Hopefully, this warm weather stays! Lately, the children who stay after 3pm have been obsessed with paper airplanes. Today was no exception. With the children observing how their planes turn left and right, and spin around before making a perfect landing, I thought it would make the experience more scientific by making them record their observations. Butterfly Cards: Before we released the butterflies last week, some of the children wrote thank you cards for the butterfly. Read on.

More Academy of Science Fieldtrip pictures! Best Friends Forever! Writing and Exploring! All but two butterflies came out of their cocoons this past week! Everyone was so excited to see our beautiful butterflies! While we still had our fluttering friends we made observational paintings of them. Instead of using paintbrushes though, we used q-tips and some of us even used our hands! We made very detailed paintings and then told about our butterfly painting. Family Drawings and Paintings This week we also drew and/or painted our families. We did this so we can compare these to the drawings from the first month of school. Many of our paintings and drawings have become more detailed. We've come a long way! The most exciting event of the week, by far, was the release of our butterflies! We safely walked across the street to find a nice home for them by the church. We found an area with a lot of flowers and then prepared for their release. Before letting them go we decided to each...