April
4-7
Monday
NonSchool
Day
Pre-registration
required to attend.
Springing for Spring: Pond Animals
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See Spring Break
Calendar for
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April 10 - 14
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Monday
Read Fly Guy
Presents: Insects
(Arnold)
We are
Gardeners!
Classroom Ant
Farm
What is an Insect?
 Read Bugs A to Z
(Scholastic)
 Is It an Insect?
 What are Insects?
 Bug Stamping
Tuesday
Read Songs of the
Water Boatman
(Sidman)
Frog Jump and
Count
Pond Patterns
Pond Animals
Poem Book
Read There Was
an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Frog
(Colandro)
Frog Life Cycle
Book
Frog Hop
Paper Plate Frogs
Wednesday
 Read Mr. Duck
Means Business
(Sauer)
 Turtle Bingo
 Ducky Ponds
 Song About Spring
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 What Hatches
From an Egg?
 The Lost Button
 Lily Ponds
 Watch Pond
Animal Video Clips
Thursday
Read In the Small
Small Pond
(Fleming)
Fabulous Frog
Book
Counting With
Fish
What is a
Tadpole?
 Read Itsy Bitsy
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Tuesday
Friday
 Read Pond Circle
(Franco)
 Frog Counting
 Beginning Sounds
 Pond Life Cycle
Ducklings
MCEC
Explorers Club
Supervisors:
Brenda Broveleit
& Sarah Davis
(952) 401—6825
 Read Dawdling
Spider (Toms)
 Roll and Graph
 Hot or Cold
 Raccoon
Masks
Duckling (Buzzeo)
 D for Duck
 Frog Letter Match
 Little Ducky
Our Daily Schedule:
Springing for Spring: Insects
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Letter: Z z
Wednesday
Read Bugs and Us
(Murphy)
Honey Taste Test
Bumblebee
Drawing
Creepy Crawlies
Cartoon
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Read The Grouchy
Ladybug (Carle)
Ladybug Counting
Bug-go
Paper Plate
Ladybugs
 Read The Very
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Read Are You a
Dragonfly (Allen)
Ants on a Log
How Many Legs?
Spider Web
Lonely Firefly
(Carle)
 Fireflies
 Inspector Insect-it
 Edible Butterflies
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Review: XWKZ
Thursday
Read My, Oh My,
a Butterfly (Seuss)
Ants in Your Pants
Art With a
Centipede
The Insect Crawl
 Read The
Crunching
Munching
Caterpillar (Cain)
 Caterpillar
Measuring
 Straw Paper
Caterpillars
 Name Caterpillars
Friday
Explorers
Club is
closed
Mornings...
6:30 a.m.
8:20 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
9 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
12:15 p.m.
Open Activities
Breakfast
Bathroom Breaks
Circle Time
Planned Activity
Outside*
Gym
Lunch
Body Break
Afternoons...
1:30 p.m.
Gym
2 p.m.
Planned Activity
2:50 p.m.
Story Time
3 p.m.
Gym
3:30 p.m.
Snack
4 p.m.
Outside*
4:30 p.m.
Free Play &
Planned Activity
5 p.m.
Free Play
* Weather permitting for outside play.
April
17 - 21
Monday
 Read Tracking the
Weather (Davies)
 Weather Station
 The Temperature
Song
 Classroom Rain
Gauge
Springing for Spring: Weather
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Tuesday
Read Rain
(Flanigan)
Weather and
Movement
Nature Walk
Thermometer
Making
 Read What is
 Read Raindrop,
Weather?
Plop! (Lewison)
(Scholastic)
 R is for Rain
 Weather Man
 Windy Day
 Weather Tracking
 Handprint
 Rain, Rain Go Away
Umbrellas
Wednesday
 Read Thunder and
Lightning
(Flanigan)
 Creating Clouds
 Wind Chimes
 Season Songs
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Letter: Q q
Thursday
Friday
Read Stormy
 Read Cloudy With
Weather (Fallon)
a Chance of
Meatballs (Barrett)
Raindrops: Drop,
 Hurricanes and
Drop
Tsunamis
Thunder Drums
Seasonal Activities  Weather Sounds
 What is a Natural
Disaster?
 Read The Wind
 Read One Windy
Blew (Hutchins)
Day (Salzano)
 Wild Rainbows
 Alphabet Umbrellas
 Outdoor Scavenger  What is Missing?
Hunt
 Tornados in a Jar
 Edible Dirt and
Worms
Ducklings
MCEC
Explorers Club
Supervisors:
Brenda Broveleit
& Sarah Davis
(952) 401—6825
 Read Mud Puddle
(Munsch)
 Missing April
Numbers
 Pictionary
 Thunderstorms
Our Daily Schedule:
April 24 - 28
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Monday
Read Seeds Go,
Seeds Grow
(Weakland)
Gardening
Measuring Sticks
What Do Plants
Need?
Classroom
Greenhouse
 Read Planting a
Rainbow (Ehlert)
 Garden Table
 Color Changing
Flowers
 Rainbow Garden
Springing for Spring: Gardening
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Tuesday
Read Plants Feed
Me (Rockwell)
Seed Sorting
Making Fruits
Categorizing
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 Read Growing
Vegetable Soup
(Ehlert)
 Planting Sequence
 Story Sequencing
Cards
 Vegetable Stand
Wednesday
Read Out and
About the
Greenhouse
(Kemper)
Fairy Garden
Flower Name
Writing
Vegetable Taste
Testing
 Read Up, Down
and Around (Ayers)
 Cupcake Liner
Flowers
 What Do Plants
Need?
 Alphabet Match
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Letter: J j
Thursday
Read Plant Secrets 
(Goodman)
Flower Patterns
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Garden Stones
In the Garden
 Read Tops and
Bottoms (Stevens)
 Labeling a Plant
 Parts of a Flower
 Sunflowers
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Friday
Read The
Vegetables We Eat
(Gibbons)
Check Out the
Weather
Sorting Flowers
Garden Painting
Read The Carrot
Seed (Krauss)
Flower Patterns
Memory Games
A Carrot Seed
Mornings...
6:30 a.m.
8:20 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
9 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
12:15 p.m.
Open Activities
Breakfast
Bathroom Breaks
Circle Time
Planned Activity
Outside*
Gym
Lunch
Body Break
Afternoons...
1:30 p.m.
Gym
2 p.m.
Planned Activity
2:50 p.m.
Story Time
3 p.m.
Gym
3:30 p.m.
Snack
4 p.m.
Outside*
4:30 p.m.
Free Play &
Planned Activity
5 p.m.
Free Play
* Weather permitting for outside play.