What beautiful November weather we had this week! We enjoyed some extra outside time while the days were still nice! Early Childhood introduced our first Food Preparation work on plucking grapes! Children plucked grapes off a vine and then had the chance to eat them! This activity was done safe and Covid-friendly! The classrooms...Read More
Early Childhood students had a busy week of work! Our Geography shelves were full of work exploring our place in the world, studying Me, My Home, and My Family. We begin this unit learning about the uniqueness and diversity of pets, homes and families around the world. In math, we continued studying fractions and greater...Read More
We are feeling the spirit of Halloween this week! Students enjoyed many festive activities including drawing a face on a pumpkin, pounding golf tees into a pumpkin, spider web marble art, and a spooky mystery sensory bowl! On Wednesday we celebrated our Harvest Party and carved a jack-o-lantern! The children voted on what shape...Read More
Halloween is soon approaching and the children have enjoyed many Halloween-inspired practical life and pre-language works this week! We introduced tray sweeping with little ants and spiders! In Practical Life, the students also learned how to use a mallet for pounding work. Pounding golf tees into clay and tacks into cork board with shapes....Read More
We started the week out with some gross motor activities as children used a balance beam or a balance board to control their balance! Our first special math unit was introduced this week about greater than, less than, and equal to. Ask your child about the “Greedy Duck.” We focused on our fine motor...Read More
Beautiful fall weather inspired many works in the classrooms this week. Each class continued working on tweezing sunflowers, some even the mammoth variety! We then utilized these to create sunflower art. We continued with our rotation of science units and completed apple art, and tree art as well. In the East classroom, students explored mirror...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
Our week began with celebrating International Day of Peace! We wore blue as a school community and created Pinwheels for Peace to line our sidewalks. Thank you for participating in this celebration! On our Geography shelves, we introduced the Hemisphere puzzle map, introducing the colored continents. Our first Sensorial unit this year is exploring colors. ...Read More
The EC students started this week out by collecting peace sticks. Each child finds a stick that represents them. The sticks will be placed in a bundle in our peace corner to represent our classroom community. The children enjoyed painting their peace sticks for this special project. In Sensorial color box 1 was added to...Read More
We continued welcoming our friends to our communities this week in Early Childhood. In the Peace area, we added the friendship trees and friendship strings, where children who feel they’ve been peaceful or kind to someone can hang beautiful objects as a representation. We also demonstrated the peaceful way to raise a hand on the line...Read More
