4K Weekly News
April 16-20.
2012
801 County Road HH West
Stevens Point, WI 54481
(715)341-3275
Week of
April 16-20, 2012
April 26: 4K Family Fun
Night and Art Show.
More details within the
following weeks.
MONDAY 16
The flannel board will be used to teach the children what is
needed for plants to grow (seeds, soil, sunlight and water).
The children will listen to the story, The Tiny Seed, by Eric
Carle.
TUESDAY 17
Today the children will be planting flowers as a special
project. We will also submerge a sweet potato half way into
a jar of water to observe over time what happens to it.
WEDNESDAY 18
Today we will be going to the Portage County Home to sing
to the residents. We will be listening to the story, The Carrot
Seed, and then act out a story they make up about planting a
garden.
THURSDAY 19
The children will try to guess what garden tools are in our
Feely Box. They will also work on our art project for Family
Fun Night Art Show on April 26th.
FRIDAY 20
During our Group Time the children will make faces on a
Styrofoam cup and plant grass seeds in them. We will then
observe how the grass grows.
SAT/SUN 21. 22
Take your child with you if you visit a plan nursery or green
house. Let your child help you plan and plant a garden.
•
We learned the different between an insect and a spider. An
insect has six legs and wings and a spider has 8 legs and no
wings. Spiders, ticks and scorpions are call arachnids.
•
Ladybugs have two hard wings that are colored and spotted and
two wings that are thin and used for flying. Ladybugs can be
orange, yellow, red, gray, black, blue, or pink. Spotted Ladybugs
have the same number of spots on each of their hard wings.
•
We learned that ants live together in large numbers. Some ants
are guard ants, some take care of the babies ants (larva), other
ants are the food gatherers, and others are the nest builders. The
queen ant is the only ant that lays eggs.
•
We talked about honey bees and examines a candle made from
the wax from a real honeycomb,
Volume 4, Issue 27
May 31: 4K Graduation
4:00 pm at Canaland
Child Care Center.
Refreshments
following ceremony.
June 4: Field trip to
Boston School Forest
for both A,M and P.M
sessions. Parent
volunteers are
welcome.
Enroll (or re-enroll) in
CSF by May 1 &
receive 50% family
discount, off the first
full week of CSF.
Refer someone to CSF
and receive a free
week of childcare.
April BIRTHDAYS!
April 9 Emy Ruehl
April 13 Seth Herman
April 19 Nathan Wresch