Our focus this month will be looking at farm animals and wild animals returning from their winter migration, exploring gardening with seeds, and getting in tune with nature by observing bugs and all the other changes swept in by the warmer weather. As always, we will blend this general thematic approach with our social and emotional, language and literacy, math and science, and music and movement based activities, exploring both these areas and the general “nature” theme in both small and large groups.
Early this month, we will be planting our garden seedlings, so expect your child to get home with a little dirt on him- or herself.
We will also have a small Cinco de Mayo celebration.
Now that the weather has become more forgiving, we will be heading outside twice a day on a consistent basis, so please make sure your child has an extra full change of clothes at RH BIT.
Children seldom like things that are good for them. We've all encountered issues while trying to encourage our children to eat vegetables, whole grain products, and basically any food other than ice cream and pizza. An easy way to try to encourage your child to actually enjoy a healthier diet is to try to make healthy synonymous with fun and tasty. Try blending vegetables such as beets, carrots, and celery into smoothies with yogurt, apples, peaches, plums or other fruit to make eating veggies fun. I guarantee no child will turn down a naturally sweetened fresh “Monster Juice” however green and slimy it might look. Another easy way to incorporate vegetables is by mixing them with ground meat to form, for example, rainbow burger patties or rainbow meatballs. The main point here is just to be creative!