Group Meeting:  We talked a little bit about St. Patrick's Day today, mainly the color green, shamrocks, and leprechauns.  Our Let's Find Out Magazine had a video about chasing and catching leprechauns. 

Story:  The story for today was Skyfire by Frank Asch.  Little Bear sees a rainbow for the first time.  He tells his friend Little Bird that the sky is on fire.  Little Bird thinks that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Who is right?  Little Bear or Little Bird?  Ask your child to tell you what happens next.

Small Groups:  The children made rainbow toast for their snack.  Rainbow toast is made by putting food coloring in milk and "painting" the milk onto a piece of bread.  We put the bread in the oven to toast it and added a little butter. 

Large Group:  We watched the video with our Let's Find Out magazine.  We cut the magazine into two pieces to make a book.

Snacks:  The children ate the rainbow toast with milk to drink and birthday brownies.  

Spring Break is next week.  There has been some talk about schools shutting down after Spring Break.  I don't know if this is true or just a rumor, but I will be keeping in touch with Bettendorf Schools to determine what our steps will be should something happen.