After a surprise snowstorm last week, it actually feels like Spring has finally arrived. We looked at the beautiful daffodils growing in front of MWS and enjoyed making flower projects this week to decorate our classroom.

We enjoyed a variety of snacks this week. On Monday, we had fruit salad made with apples, clementines and strawberries. The children loved it! In fact, they ate all of our fruit salad and also the leftovers from the Green Class. It was a big hit. On Wednesday, our cooking day, the children baked coffee cake. Of course, there is no coffee in coffee cake so I explained to them that many people like to eat coffee cake while drinking a cup of coffee. The children pretended that their water bottles were filled with coffee and enjoyed it with the coffee cake.

Some of the activity choices this week were:

I hope you were able to enjoy the eclipse on Monday. Even though we were not in an area of totality, my husband and I had a fun time on the lawn at the Lexington Community Center. My husband (a retired astronomer) focused the image through our birding telescope onto paper. It was another way to view the eclipse. This is what it looked like:

This week the children had time sitting with me individually to do two activities. The first one required the children to put colored craft sticks into the same pattern that is on the card. They enjoyed going through many of the picture cards. The second activity also involved picture cards with stacking cups. The cards start with 3 cups and work up to using all 8 cups.