Unicorn News for the week of April 30th

The Unicorns planted seeds, explored rainbows and continued concocting formulas!

Callie carefully plants.

Tom and Ms Fensterheim plant.

Georgia adds the new mystery ingredient.

Evan chooses a solid ingredient.

Lucas mixes blue, blue and blue to make dark blue!

Rainbow colors everywhere!

Sylvia and Claire try to find the rainbow with their prisms.

Samantha joins the rainbow search!

Our Friend of the Week presents her poster.

The Unicorns listen.

Planting planters for the small schoolyard.

Georgia's special snack, cheese puffs and cheese crackers, yum!

Watering the planted planters!

A member of the salad club!

Tabi is another member of the salad club!

The fish table enjoys the bagel pizzas.

    The Unicorns spontaneously started different food clubs when some  Unicorns became adventurous at lunch time!!!  It definitely became contagious.  Here are the latest food clubs and their members!


Lasagna club:  Lucas, Tabi, Clara, James
Spinach club:  Giavanna, Lucas, Tabi
Pineapple club:  Tom, Tabi, Patrick, Georgia, Samantha, Monty, Evan, Stella
Cheese & Turkey Quesadilla club:  Georgia, Evan, Samantha, Tabi, Tom, James, Clara, Patrick, Shay, Claire, Kate, Lucas
Green Bean club:  Ryan (it's delicious!), Tabi, Georgia
Roasted Chicken club:  Shay, Evan, Stella, Sylvia, Patrick, Kate, Georgia, Gia, Lucas. Samantha, Tom, Monty, Claire, Tabi, James
Rice club:  Shay, Stella, Sylvia, Kate, Patrick, Georgia, Gia, Lucas, Samantha, Tom, Tabi
Black Beans and Peppers club:  Tabi, Georgia
Plantains club:  Tom, Evan
Bananas club:  Evan, Callie, Gia, Georgia, Patrick, Claire, Samantha, James, Tabi, Tom
Taco Meat club:Tabi, Lucas, Gia, Georgia, Kate, Patrick, Evan, Shay, Ryan, Stella
Bagel Pizza club:  Clara, Kate, Patrick, Gerogia, Shay, Ryan, Evan, Claire, Tabi, Monty James
Salad club:  Gerogia, Tabi


This is adventurous eating in Pre-k!!!!!  Just wanted to share the great news!  (The rule is you have to try a food to be in a club, you don't have to continue eating it if you don't like it.  Most of the time the Unicorns continued eating!)


Books We Read
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Strega Nona
When Everyone Wore a Hat (autobiography of William Steig)
The Littlest Wolf *** by Larry Brimner (I highly recommend this book to parents too!  The Unicorns LOVED it, but I think it's great for parents to read and reflect on how the big wolf treats the littlest wolf!)
That's Good, That's Bad
I Will Never , Not Ever, Eat a Tomato
Ms. Rumphius
How Pizza Came to Queens
alphabet rescue
Milo's Hat Trick
Charlotte's Web


Songs we Sang
"Robin in the Rain"
"Let's Make a Garden"
"Under the Rainbow"

To Note:    We started the conversation about Kindergarten.  It was  anxiety producing for many of the Unicorns.  Thus begins the transitions from Pre-K to K.  It is a process.  We will do many things to help ease the transition to K.  This is what we did this week:
1.  We listed what we knew about Kindergarten.
2.  We watched the 1st 3 segments of a wonderful series of videos on Kindergarten called "Kindergarten"  by HBO family.  There are 3 more videos with 3 segments on each one.  The 1st video prompted a rich conversation about the similarities of Kindergarten to Pre-K  (A big thank you to Emily, who lent this series to us).
3.   We interviewed two kindergarteners.
4.    We wrote the bear fairies to find out when we can take our teddy bears home!!!!!!

Looking Ahead!

Evan will be the Friend of the Week this coming week.

**Look on the door at drop off to find out your child's share!!!  There have been a lot of skipped shares this week due to the change of month!

Tuesday, May 8th:  Trip to the Staten Island Zoo, leave school at 9:30am.  Make sure your child has a bagged lunch and no snack!

Tuesday, May 22nd: trip to the Staten Island Children's Museum

Thursday, June 14th:  Pre-k rides on a NYC Water Taxi

Tuesday, June 19th:  Pre-k Sing Along/Picnic in Carroll Park

I will post volunteer sign-up sheets for the rest of the trips after the zoo trip!!!