What does Spring bring?

When the weather began to warm up at the beginning of April, the Shamayim children were excited to talk about some of their favorite spring activities and sights.  One of the common expectations was that the trees get leaves and flowers grow from the ground.

Because of this interest, we have been focusing some of our activities around flowers  - through science, art, reading and even math.

We read Planting a Rainbow by Louis Ehlert and planted our own rainbow of flowers.

 We have been watching our buds pop out of the soil and we have been diligent about watering our plants to keep them damp and in a sunny spot.  Soon we will begin measuring which plants are tallest and which are shortest.

We also made green playdough - since we see so many green things in nature this time of year.  We had to follow a recipe carefully and it came out perfectly!

Just recently, the children used water colors and coffee filters to make beautiful flowers for a classroom vase.

We attached the filters to pipe cleaners and it has become a lovely centerpiece on our tables.  Today, in small groups, we used the vase and bouquet of flowers as a model for a pasting project.  We used strips of construction paper and odd shapes to replicate our vase of flowers on paper.