Greetings Dear Beaver Families,
This is our first Spring in this part of our forest and it’s been so wonderful to see what flowers and plants come to bloom during this time alongside what we have planted. There is a flowering tree from the River Otters part of the forest and the wind has blown some of its blossoms over to our area. We are also seeing more visitors in the animal world such as a rather large woodpecker who visits a few of our nearby trees and the turtles who are out sunbathing again too. We also saw our first carpenter bee which drank from our hyacinth plant. All but two of our hyacinth plants had bloomed the previous week (strange since we planted them all together) with all of the flowers pink, except these two plants which finally bloomed this past week. We were surprised to see that these two newly bloomed hyacinths are a beautiful blue-purple color. Some of the zinnia’s we planted in our little garden bed have sprouted and we also planted radishes. There was a lot of good, muddy play and jump rope games happening in the forest as well. The children all finished making their wet felted balls for our class project and we can’t wait to see the finished product!
The children heard a story about a grumpy leprechaun who couldn’t find his gold. The leprechaun walked and mumbled to himself, “Where is my gold, oh, where could it be?” When the rooster heard, he told the leprechaun to look out, for his gold was just about to come up. Soon enough, the beautiful, golden sun rose over the fields. The hen offered to let the leprechaun hold her gold, and seven little chicklets gathered around. The calf offered to share his gold- the beautiful golden hay. The duckling floating in the pond offered to share her gold that came in the form of bread crumbs tossed by a little girl who caught the leprechaun as soon as she heard him (for it is said leprechauns bring humans good luck). When the girl saw the grumpy face of the leprechaun, she asked him what he was so upset about. He complained that nobody could help him find his gold. At last, it started to rain! The girl danced and laughed and told the leprechaun, “Don’t you know that after it rains, the sun will shine, a rainbow will appear, and at the end of every rainbow there is a pot of gold?” They raced together to the end of the rainbow and the leprechaun wrapped his arms around the pot of gold, but since the girl had already caught him, he gave all his gold away to the girl and the rest of her life was golden thereafter.
Thank you for sending your child to school in their rain gear, and for all that you do :-)
Reminders:
We will meet this Friday after school to work on our class auction project. All the materials will be prepared for you. If you are unable to attend, we will send materials with your child to work on at home. Thank you!
Warmly,
Ki Fatima
