I’ve got a spring in my step; do you? The first day of spring has that effect!
How will you celebrate the start of spring? Submit a comment to our blog by Wednesday, April 4, to let us know. One lucky teacher will be randomly selected to win these special spring-themed prizes: the new book Spectacular Spring: All Kinds of Spring Facts and Fun from Henry Holt plus a set of Hello Nature Activity Cards from Laurence King Publishing. Both are packed with fun ideas to get you and your students inspired about the outdoors.
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I’ll be celebrating spring in the park. I have a brand new bouncy ball and I’m ready to use it!
Happy spring,
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How do we get to celebrate the first day of spring?
Mandatory online practice testing for the upcoming high stakes test.
Boo Hoo!
We celebrated the first day of spring with a guest author Ronda Friend. She talked about conflict and forgiveness, unconditional love and acceptance. Her music both amused and captured the children’s interest.
My district is celebrating Texas Public Schools Week. Each day has an activity related to Texas. No spring celebration. We will be doing spring-related activities starting next week though.
We’re celebrating Spring by having family and friends over and having a big barbecue party.
Spring Break!!!
Our class celebrated the first day of spring by writing excellent SPRING poems for our POETRY GARDEN! Yay!!!
In my home daycare we celebrate by jumping in mud puddles
and playing outside when it feels warmer and we aren’t wearing 10 pounds of winter clothes
it looks like we will be celebrating with a snow day!
We started a celery plant from a composted celery end. Today we get to celebrate spring by seeing the growth change.
We are celebrating Spring with a snowstorm! We will be in school until July!
Celebrating spring with a long walk. Even though it is cold
Spring into reading!! Lots of books about the weather today!
We are celebrating the arrival of Spring this morning at our 2 Tiny Tales story times with reading aloud picture book stories of the season, and crafting a paper birdhouse windsock with rainbow streamers.
Home in bed sick!
The temperatures are in the 30s! But we are celebrating the sunshine!
I will hopefully be celebrating with a snow day tomorrow. ????
It’s spring break for school, so I worked an eight hour shift at my second job, the public library.
We read the book, “Mud” by Mary Lyn Ray and fingerpaint with mud! It’s a great sensory experience!
Celebrating spring with a Snow Day! Nor’easter #4 on its way!
we celebrate the first day of spring by planting flowers and watching them grow and then each child takes them home.
I’m celebrating Spring with a wintry mix of weather!
We are celebrating with a snow day!
Celebrate spring with a walk on spring break!
Our kidos are painting trees with pink flowers.
It seems we in Pennsylvania are celebrating the start of spring with a foot of snow. Yesterday we read snow books instead of spring books to prepare our kiddos. Here’s hoping spring isn’t too far away!
Our First Day of Spring in West Paducah, KY was cloud and snowy. It felt like the First Day of Winter instead. Lol! I have a special coloring connect the dots page I like to hand out every year. The children love it. It’s a picture of a robin catching a worm.
Well, we started off spring here with a snow day – and a foot of snow!
We celebrate spring with a classroom garden. Beautiful flowers and veggies are the catalyst for great lessons that integrate science, math, and literature!
We celebrated spring with really cold weather!! But we also made foot print bees ????!!!
Letting the sun shine on my face!
During spring break I am going to the Great Wolf Lodge in Garden Grove. It is near Disneyland. I live in southern CA so it is a staycation! My birthday is the next week so we will be celebrating that too. I can’t wait!!
We celebrate the start of spring by beginning our Life Science unit on life cycles. What better time to talk about and investigate life cycles than in spring.
we celebrated spring with a nor’easter!