March comes in like a lion...

Yes, spring has finally arrived and we are busy at work and thinking about all things spring!  Each day we're keeping up with the weather and marking down "Lion" or "Lamb" days, and so far the lamb days are winning!  We also made lion and lamb faces to decorate our bulletin board in our classroom.

March also brings the Birthday of Dr. Seuss, and we enjoyed celebrating with a Dr. Seuss book-a-thon reading all our favorites.  We also made Cat in the Hat hats to wear for our special Green Eggs and Ham breakfast!

In keeping with the spirit of green things, St. Patrick's day was celebrated by making Leprechaun hats with a shamrock with green construction paper.  We also talked about times in our lives that we felt "lucky" and the children each wrote a little piece entitled My Lucky Day.

We celebrate Reading Month in March, and the school-wide theme is Circus.  The Kindergarten classes each read a book with the circus theme and then created a bulletin board which illustrated the book.  We read Circus: A Pop-Up Adventure by Meg Davenport and then created fancy elephants similar to the illustrations in the book. 

The tent was HUGE!  Inside it smelled like popcorn, cotton candy and ELEPHANTS! 

~From Circus!

As part of our March Reading Month, we had a wonderful visit from therapy dogs who happen to love to have children read to them--imagine that!  With three different dogs in our room, the children had a chance to get close to these dogs and were all anxious to share a favorite book.  I don't know who enjoyed it more, the kids or the dogs!  It prompted us to sing a favorite song.

There's a dog in the school, oh no!

What are we going to do?

As long as there are dogs in the school

They'll have to learn the alphabet too!

(This is the part where we bark out the alphabet song!)