To enhance our curriculum in the classroom, our students have Spanish, Music, Art and Physical Education weekly. Spanish, Music and Art are all taking place in the classroom, and P.E. is outdoors, weather permitting, or in the Oberheu Room. The Special Teachers block off an hour for each of the classrooms. Senora Clementina Whitaker is...Read More
Music! Toddlers had the pleasure of hearing, touching and playing a real guitar! Our own talented Mr. Seth brought in his guitar for us to explore. Children took turns strumming the strings. We sang familiar songs while Mr. Seth played. Together we also play rhythm sticks, shakers and drums. Learning through music helps the body...Read More
Early Childhood continues to explore colors; adding secondary color work to the art shelf. The red rods were introduced this week; another visual discrimination work about long and short. We also received beautiful sunflowers to tweeze the sunflower seeds which we will save for a project! The East classroom worked on table scrubbing, a...Read More
We had a busy week in upper west as we wrapped up the last week of September. The students have been having two math lessons per week, one on Mondays and a second on Wednesdays, with follow-up and independent work to do on the other days. Most of the review is over by now, which...Read More
To enhance our curriculum in the classroom, our students have Spanish, Music, Art and Physical Education weekly. Spanish, Music and Art are all taking place in the classroom, and P.E. is outdoors, weather permitting, or in the Oberheu Room. The Special Teachers block off an hour for each of the classrooms. Senora Clementina Whitaker is...Read More
Early Childhood continues to explore colors; adding secondary color work to the art shelf. The red rods were introduced this week; another visual discrimination work about long and short. We enjoyed lessons on tweezing sunflower seeds as well! The East classroom worked on table scrubbing, a large motor, multi-step practical life work involving care...Read More
Last Thursday we got our first biology lesson of the year, and we also had a peace lesson. Apparently it is also Hispanic Heritage Month, so at the end of the day we have been learning about some Spanish speaking countries, and we have seen some food and some people from the countries. We also...Read More
This week has been a beautiful whirlwind of work. We are finishing up some a packet about the Explorers of North America (above left), working toward the American Revolution, and examining the causes and effects of static electricity (above right). We are getting ready to finish Touching Spirit Bear, before moving on to Spooookier stories...Read More
