MARCH

Week/Date: March 3-6
Theme/Letter: Read Across America Week/Letter Q
Books/Songs: Where the Wild Things Are, Llama Llama Red Pajama, I Was So Mad, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Crafts: Design your own pajamas, Cupcake craft
Skills: “Create A Story” cards (Develop storytelling ability with picture cards- make a story to describe scene in the card). Retelling/sequencing stories read.
Introduction to the “parts of a story”

Week/Date: March 11, 13, 17 (Parent/Teacher Conferences-No class March 10 AND March 12)
Theme/Letter: St. Patrick’s Day/Letter R
Books/Songs: Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase, The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day, That’s What Leprechauns Do, St. Patrick’s Day, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover
Crafts: shamrock sun catcher, leprechaun craft
Skills: Stringing fruit loop rainbows; solving riddles, science experiment-Skittle “rainbow,” lucky charm sorting/addition/graphing, number rainbow count-dice game
*Watch youtube Sesame Street Irish dance clip/Teach ROYGBIV

Week/Date: March 18-20
Theme/Letter: Music Week/Letter S
Books/Songs: Ellie in Concert, Giraffes Can’t Dance, Little Critter: Just a Little Music, The Bear, The Piano, The Dog, And the Fiddle
Crafts: fingerprint musical notes, musical instrument, “xylophone”
Skills: Attentive listening: clapping different rhythms, music concepts
Instrument demonstrations
Video-“Identify that musical instrument”

Week/Date: March 24-27
Theme/Letter: Reptiles/Amphibians/T
Books/Songs: Song: “5 Speckled Frog Song”, Which Reptile Does a Vanishing Trick: Reptiles and Birds, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, A Color of His Own, The Mixed- Up Chameleon
Crafts: Chameleon watercolor, frog handprint craft, paper plate snakes
Skills: Identifying characteristics of reptile/amphibians; Compare/Contrast between mammals and reptiles, Frog Life Cycle.
*Youtube-Amphibians for Kids-Natural Science for Kids; Amphibians Happy Learning

Week/Date: March 31 and April 1 (Easter Break April 2-6-No School)
Theme/Letter: Easter
Books/Songs: Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure, The Easter Bunny Is Coming to Pennsylvania

Crafts: Bunny Peep painting, Easter egg marbled painting
Skills: Exploration: Easter egg rescue (fine motor), jellybean sorting, egg matching
*Easter egg hunt
*Send home spring scavenger hunt
We will be asking for donations to stuff Easter eggs for our Easter egg hunt.
More to come.

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Classroom Needs/Upcoming Events:
Our conferences will be held on Tuesday March 10 and Thursday March 12.
Each conference will run for approximately 15 minutes. We will set a phone timer for that amount of time at the beginning of each conference in order to keep us on track. We respect your time and want to be respectful of the other parents’ time after you.

The Art Show is scheduled for March 23 and 24. Our night is Tuesday, March 24. This is an evening event where your child can show off all their art projects that were made specifically for the art show!

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