April
April
- Caterpillars & Butterflies
- Earth Day
- Show & Tell and School Spirit Week, April 15-19
- Spring & Plants
- Week of the Young Child
- National Poetry Month
The week of April 15-19 is Show and Tell and Spirit Week! Dress-up each day! Bring in one item to show the class!
- Monday-Backwards Day
- Tuesday-Favorite Team (or sport)
- Wednesday-Crazy Hair Day
- Thursday- Pajama Day
- Friday-Favorite Character.
Please limit show and tell items to one per child.
The Week of The Young Child
The Week of the Young Child™ is an annual celebration hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) celebrating early learning, young children, their teachers, and families. This year’s event is April 8-12th, 2024! We will be celebrating and following along with these fun activities. Music Monday, Tasty Tuesday, Work Together Wednesday, Artsy Thursday and Family Friday.
National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month each April is the largest literary celebration in the world. We will learn about poems, hear some new ones, and work on creating our own as a group and individually. Each child will work on writing their own poem called “I Am From” to help us learn that poems have an important place in our culture and our lives. 
Garden
We are so excited, to get our caterpillars! We are setting up a habitat for them in the classroom to watch them grow bigger and change into butterflies! During April we will work on some garden projects and planting. We will be talking about Earth Day and how we can help our planet.
Special Guests
We enjoy our special visitors! This month we welcome Joanie from Talk About Trees, our middle school book buddies from The Portland Forest School, Teacher Brittany from Moon Shadow Music and more!
Honey Bee Room
You may already know that we have two different circle groups, one that meets on the carpet in the classroom and one that meets in the Honey bee room! Some kids have circle in the Honey bee room everyday, while others go back and forth on different days.
Tax Time
To help you with your taxes here is our official name and tax ID number:
Hands On Art & Play Inc.
EIN # is 20-5503578
See you soon!
