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We began the month talking about animals. It was definitely the most captivating topic yet! We learned about bears and zebras and monkeys, dogs and more. We sang “Animal Action” and marched around the room acting like animals. We enjoyed reading “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?” The children loved acting like animals as we acted out the story! Teddy Bear Day was a big hit! I loved the variety of bears (and a dog, tiger and bunny) that came to school to visit. Circle time was exciting. The children taught the bears the Sh’ema and the hello song, and the bears helped the children hang their nametags and colored felt board mittens. ?

Purim was a great lesson too! We talked about King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther. We learned new songs that included cheering for Mordecai and stomping for Haman. The children loved making lots of noise with their graggers, especially when the name of Haman was mentioned! Together we made Hamentashen in the classroom. What a yummy treat! It was so much fun seeing the children enjoying themselves at the Purim carnival.

We continued learning about shapes this month. We finished talking about squares and introduced triangles. Purim was a great time to introduce triangles because of Haman’s hat! We made a triangle collage, triangle fish and triangle paintings.

We began focusing more on numbers this month. We introduced number recognition, up to 5. At circle time the children now have an opportunity to come up to the front and point to each number while they count. We had lots of fun reading number books and singing number songs. We also focused on one specific number each day and created a number book for the children to keep.

This past week we learned a lot about spring! We talked about the snow and cold weather going away. The children made buds for our classroom bulletin-board-tree. I am confident that the buds will lead to beautiful leaves very soon! ? The children made their own blossoming trees too, out of construction paper and popcorn. We talked about some of the signs of spring- warm weather, flowers, buds, frogs, bees, butterflies and rain. We read books about spring and learned new songs about spring.

We celebrated three birthdays this month. Happy March Birthday to Sophie, Marissa and Lilly, you sure are getting big! And we had a special visit from Max, one of our old school friends! What a wonderful surprise!