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- Early Dismissal Thursday, April 17th @11:30
- Spring Long Weekend. April 18th-April 21st. Classes resume on Tuesday, April 22nd at 10:00am
- SAVE THE DATE! EARLY CHILDHOOD SHOWCASE – Thursday, May 8th @ 5:30 p.m.
- On April 17th, the fifth-grade class will be hosting a Spring Egg Hunt for our PS-4th grade students on main campus. We have lots of plastic eggs from previous years but we need your help in gathering items to fill the eggs. If you are able to donate a dozen small toys, trinkets, stickers, or candy for the school, we would love to have them by Monday, April 14. Thank you in advance for your help in making this a special event for our students!
Hello JK families,
Some events leave lasting memories for both the children and adults. The day we brought our cake designs to life will likely be one of those moments. Last week each group, made up of 5 or 6 children collaborated to create a single cake design. Here is what each group came up with and their final product in pictures!
Butterfly Spring Cake: Noah, Lola, Bria, Emma, Scarlett, Heidi
Lola- “How about we make a Spring cake?”
Bria- “Yeah!”
“It can be a stacked cake.” -Bria
“I want it square.” -Lola
“I like circle.” -Noah
“How about a circle on a square?” -Lola
“One can be chocolate.” -Scarlett
“And one can be vanilla.” -Heidi
“I am going to do rainbows.” -Noah
“I can do a bee.” -Emma
“And butterflies.” -Bria
“This part looks like a duck.” -Emma
“It is a flying cake.” Emma
“This part is the cake stand.” Scarlett
What is this part at the top? (Miss Claire)
“That is the head.” Noah
Okay, maybe that can be made out of something else, like rice crispie treats. (Miss Claire)
“Yeah!” -Whole group
Now the cake is 4 layers. Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and funfetti.
“We need different kinds of sprinkles.” Scarlett
“Gold” -Heidi
“Silver” -Noah
Confetti Cake: Mylah, Kipton, Hailey, Stylee, Bradford, Ollie
“It’s going to be a confetti cake!” – Stylee
“Confetti needs to be coming out of the side and down.” -Kipton
“Oh so ‘confetti’ like a celebration not the flavor!” – Miss Liz
“I want to make a castle cake.” – Hailey
“It needs to have layers. 5!” – Mylah
“We want it to be rainbow.” -Kipton
“What flavors?” -Miss Liz
“We want it to be chocolate and vanilla.” -Kipton
“Did we add anything else?” -Miss Liz
“I added a confetti storm!” -Bradford
What color icings do we need? -Miss Liz
“Rainbow, blue, pink, red, yellow and orange.” – Kipton
“And what should we make the confetti out of that we can eat?” -Miss Liz
“Sprinkles and different colorful chocolates, red, pink, and blue.” – Mylah
“And we added flowers to it.” – Mylah
“I added a rainbow to the side of the cake.” -Stylee
Hulk Cake: Bodhi, Izaak, Dax, Hunter, Rory
“We want to make a Hulk cake.” -Rory
Is it just the face or his whole body? (Miss Claire)
“His whole body.” -Bodhi
What flavor? (Miss Claire)
“Chocolate!” -Izaak
“Yeah!”- Rory
“I like chocolate.” -Hunter
“I don’t like chocolate. Can it be vanilla?” -Dax
“It could be swirled.” -Rory
“I like vanilla too.” -Hunter
“Me too.” -Bodhi
“His mouth should be open.” -Dax
“We should use green and purple for his pants and black for his hair.” -Bodhi
“Oh, and he has green eyes.” -Bodhi
“I want to add some red too.” -Izaak
Rainbow Favorite Things Cake: Leonardo, Henry, Wendell, Sophia, Forrest, Lucas
“Rainbow.” -Leonardo
“4 layers of a rainbow. That would make it this tall.” (gestures above the table top) – Henry
“I want it to be Pokemon and 6 layers. That way, there’s one for every kid on our team.” -Wendell
“Rainbow and 6 layers so we each can have one!” -Sophia
“I want my layer to be green and have sports balls.” -Forrest
“I want mine to be light blue and to be Paw Patrol.” -Henry
“What flavor do you want it to be?” -Miss Liz
“Strawberry cake! With rainbow sprinkles!” -Lucas
“So is the cake rainbow because it’s iced in a variety of colors or does it have actual rainbows on it?” – Miss Liz
“It has all the colors and sprinkles!” – Sophia
“Red, yellow, blue, green, and black with cars.” – Leonardo
We kicked off the week by measuring ingredients, mixing, and baking 15 round cakes, and one sheet cake! Once the cakes had properly cooled they were ready to ice and decorate. With the help of a few other teachers, all 23 children gathered around our classroom tables and spread on icing in the color of their choice. The hulk group had help carving their character based on their drawing, and the butterfly group shaped the head out of rice krispie treats and pink fondant. The confetti cake group used colorful candy melts to decorate the sides of the cake and the favorite things group decorated each of their layers separately based on their individual theme and then stacked them carefully together. When the creations were complete, it was time to taste! The kiddos were so excited to finally eat a slice of their delicious creations.
Not only did we bake actual gigantic cakes, we also officially opened the bakeshop! The walls of our sweet eatery were secured around the treehouse space in our middle part of the classroom. We cut out a door just the size of the children and a large window for them deliver orders. When the children arrived on Thursday morning they were thrilled to step inside and begin playing!
In Literacy the children began studying the letter Jj. As a class, they came up with 26 words that begin with the /j/ sound, and practiced the formation of the upper and lower case versions. They also did lots of fun letter and name practice. In Math the children absolutely loved practicing AB, ABB, and ABC patterns using a variety of loose parts and unifix cubes. We also learned all about the number 11 as we have officially entered the wonderful world of teen numbers. Lastly, the children began creating paper money and coins for our bakery!
Next week, Easter fun awaits! Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Liz and Miss Claire
The Bakeshop is Open!
Making the Cakes
Butterfly Spring Cake
Confetti Cake
Hulk Cake
Rainbow Favorite Things Cake
Patterns, Letters and Name Practice, Money Making and More!
