All About Cactus

Today we learned all about cacti! 

As always, we were excited to greet our friends and sing songs in welcome circle. Then we went outside to play. 

After a quick snack, we read Clementina's Cactus by Ezra Jack Keats.

 Clementina's Cactus is a story about a girl who finds a little cactus in the desert and loves it. After reading the book, we made our own desert scene and practiced vocabulary using a velcro board. 

During science today, we talked about how a cactus is sharp. We guessed whether a sharp or a smooth cactus would pop a water balloon. Then, we all had to find out the answer by trying to pop our water balloons on both cacti. We had a lot of fun, and even got a little wet, while figuring out that the sharp cactus pops the water balloons. The cactus is sharp so that nothing can get too close!

During art, we had a good time with textures. We decorated a picture of a desert using real sand and a sandpaper cactus. Finger painting the sandpaper cactus was the best part!

So far, learning about the Wild West has been a blast!