Junior Kindergarten Class News
Learning with Mrs. Hannan and Miss Lucy
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
March was a busy and exciting month in Junior Kindergarten. We began by celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday. We read several books by Dr. Seuss and learned to rhyme very well. Some fourth graders came to read Dr. Seuss's I Can Read with My Eyes Shut to us. After reading The Cat in the Hat with Mrs. Hannan, we had fun making an extra large Cat in the Hat project. We even had a birthday party for Dr. Seuss and frosted our own cupcakes!
Dr. Seuss Mystery Readers
We had some fourth grade mystery readers visit our class; they read us Dr. Seuss's I Can Read With My Eyes Shut. Don't you love our shades?!
Reading with Mrs. Hannan
Mrs. Hannan reads us a classic Dr. Seuss book, The Cat in the Hat. We loved it!
Dr. Seuss Project
We had fun painting our tall, striped hats for our The Cat in the Hat project.
Field Trip to Green Lane Park
We took our first bus ride and field trip to Green Lane Park where we learned how to identify a maple tree. We learned how sap is removed from the tree and made into maple syrup. Also, we tasted real maple sugar. We returned to school to enjoy pancakes with syrup and put together a sequencing project about the process of making maple syrup.
Taste Test
We had a taste-test to see if we could tell the difference between real maple syrup and artificial syrup. It was delicious experiment!
Carrying the Sap Buckets
We learned about Theodore Roosevelt's idea to use children to carry buckets full of sap to assist in maple syrup production. A couple of us had a turn to try this for ourselves (The buckets were empty, of course. Also, we were indoors and away from the elements.) It was a challenge!
Maple Candy Treats
When we returned to school, we each tasted a maple leaf maple-flavored candy. It was extremely sweet!
St. Patrick's Day Fun
We had a visit from a Leprechaun on Saint Patrick's Day! Mrs. Hannan shared a great story about the leprechaun with us, and we learned how tricky a leprechaun can be when he made a mess in our classroom. Luckily, he made up for it by leaving us gold pieces. After we found our "gold," we had a St. Patrick's Day party with green jello jigglers and green frosted cupcakes.
Dinosaur Unit
This month, we began our exciting unit on dinosaurs. We had an informative and fun presentation by Ruth Yeiser from Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy. We measured the length of a Brachiosaurus's neck using a rope, saw the size of the Tyrannosaurus Rex's mouth, danced a Dinosaur Stomp and listened to several interesting dinosaur books, including: Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp. We hope you love the colored dinosaur masks that we helped to make!
Otherwise, in the classroom with Mrs. Hannan, we made an Apatosaurus scene, and we learned about long-neck dinosaurs. Additionally, we used watercolors to paint a baby Maiasaur. We displayed it in its finger-painted egg. We also painted colored eggs with acrylics. We are hoping that baby Maiasaurs will hatch from them!
Looking Ahead
We will keep studying dinosaurs during April, and our study of springtime will continue as well. We look forward to warmer temperatures, beautiful flowers and new life all around us!