What color are tomatoes?

We are growing lots of tomatoes in our garden, but some of the children think that they are ready do be picked off of the plant when they are green! We asked, "What color are tomatoes when you buy them from the store?"

The children answered - "GREEN!" ;0) lol

So, we brought in tomatoes from the store in all shapes and sizes, and what do you know, they were RED!

We took all of the tomatoes out, and talked about the color, size and shape of them.

We all worked together and counted all of the tomatoes!

We looked inside the tomatoes and found SEEDS!

Some of us loved eating the tomatoes! We loved them even better with a side of ranch dressing ;0)

We even drew tomatoes, we loved drawing circles and ovals!

And now, we decided that we will leave the tomatoes on the plant until they start turning red!

Into the "Blue" Ocean

As our "blue" project has continued, we have focused on the "blue ocean". For one part in our project, we have been looking at some "Planet Earth" animal cards and learning about all of the animals that we find in the ocean.........

We each picked our favorite animal and we drew it. We practiced spelling words about our animals and talking about what they do and eat in the ocean...............

Look at our beautiful underwater art piece that we all worked on together................

coloring earth green

to celebrate the 40th anniversary of earth day, aaron brothers art & framing sponsored a kids' art contest themed coloring earth green & ella lopez, one of our pre-k students entered & she won at the sugar land location for her age group (5-8yrs)...whoo hoo. so now she has been entered into the national contest against all the other 159 store winners, can you believe it!? so now online voting will determine the grand prize, second prize and third prize. and guess what... voting is from may 5th & goes until may 21st, then the winner will be announced around may 28th, we know it's so exciting!

grand prize winners from each age category will win a trip to the crayola factory in easton, pennsylvania, for four people, including air travel and hotel accommodations for 3 days and 2 nights, and a $500 aaron brothers gift card. their designated schools will each receive a $1,000 gift card.
second place prize winners will each receive a $200 aaron brothers gift card. their designated schools will each receive a $500 aaron brothers gift card.
third place prize winners will each receive a $100 aaron brothers gift card. their designated schools will each receive a $300 aaron brothers gift card.


so please visit http://aaronbrothers.com/vote & check out her amazing water bottle lid creation "shalena the butterfly" & vote for her, ella (age 5)!

p.s. you can vote more than once if you have more than one e-mail address...hint hint

p.s.s. don't forget to tell your friends about "shelena the butterfly"

Mother's Day

Mothers,

Please join us for a sweet treat Friday, May 7th, beginning at 3:00 pm, in celebration of Mother's Day!

Spring Garden

Springtime is here and we are ready to get our garden in tip-top shape!

All of the kids at Little Wonders got together to work in the garden! They used their compost to prepare the soil and then planted the vegetables, fruit, and flowers that they brought from home!

We all can't wait to see how our garden will grow!

Wonderland

Some of the kids in class started a project on Alice in Wonderland. They wanted to create their own wonderland filled with magical creatures! This is how they described their finished project which is posted above.

"The Airplane man is flying to the bunnies because the bunnies have a giant surprise!"

"Alice and her friends are stuck in the rain and they don't know how to go home. Tayden is in the helicopter and is going to help Alice and her friends her home. "

"The Dragon is Flying into Kiersten's cave to hide from Alice and her friends. "

"Dungeon has monsters and bad guys. Kiersten is picking flowers."

The color blue!

The kids have continued their interest in the color blue so they decided to work with the legos in class and practice their counting skills! They were given the tub of legos and asked to sort them according to color. They separated them into groups of red, blue, yellow, and green. Afterwards, they sat in a circle and counted out all of the blue legos. They had a great time working as team and had fun counting!