Half Note Class Newsletter: PET WEEK!

Dear Parents,

We introduced our pet unit with a visit from Geddy, a yellow naped amazon parrot. I think Geddy had had almost as much fun talking and singing for the children as they did watching him. Did you know, according to bird experts, some parrots have the reasoning skills of a three year old child? I am not sure if this is true, but it only took Geddy two weeks to learn how to put a ball into a basketball net. Geddy is twenty-four years old and is expected to live another sixty five years.

After seeing what a parrot looks like, the children made their own version of a bird. They decorated it with markers, feathers and added eyes to it. The birds look adorable hanging on a line in our classroom.

We made our own pet houses by painting coffee boxes and decorating them with animal stickers. Finally, we added shingles to the roof and placed a carpet inside. The children had so much fun playing with them.

On Friday we had a special visitor, Michelle, a science teacher at Puddlestompers (a nature exploration program). She taught the children all about worms. She then had them dig up worms. Did you know that the earthworm's body is made up of two layers of muscle with a layer of water in between; and that earthworms do not have eyes but have light sensitive cells all over their bodies? Ask your child about this.