We celebrated Valentine’s Day this week in EC! On the art shelf, we colored, cut, and delivered a Valentine to a friend. At the easel, we painted bright pink sparkly hearts! We also had a special book and class treat, as well as passed out individual Valentine cards brought from home. In sensorial, we added...Read More
Our Toddler classroom celebrated Valentine’s Day with the help of our wonderful families! They made their own snacks and gifts for their families.Read More
With Valentine’s Day this week, we have been reflecting on our friendships and showing ways we care about one another and our community. Friends decorated, cut, and made a valentine to deliver to a friend. Our class also decorated Valentine’s bags to use at our class party. Children could paint a heart at the Easel....Read More
This week in our classroom we introduced, The Farm, a miniature environment. This material allows students to set up the environment and write sentences with the different parts of speech. Younger students are focusing on shorter sentences using articles, adjectives, nouns, and verbs. They are also practicing sentence structure. Older students focus on longer sentences,...Read More
This week in our classroom we introduced, The Farm, a miniature environment. This material allows students to set up the environment and write sentences with the different parts of speech. Younger students are focusing on shorter sentences using articles, adjectives, nouns, and verbs. They are also practicing sentence structure. Older students focus on longer sentences,...Read More
We introduced a new science unit about the calendar, weather, and the four seasons. Students can identify the months of the year, create the calendar in the classroom, sort items and pictures based on what season they are needed or found, and discover different types of weather through books. These are topics that are regularly...Read More
Celebrating Chinese New Year this week was a focus in Early Childhood! We created dragon masks and tails and had a special parade throughout the school with our West classroom and Toddler classroom friends. This work incorporates coloring, using art doppers to create the mask and tail, in addition to pin punching the mask eyes...Read More
This week the lower classrooms added a fun art activity to go alongside our Antarctica/Polar Region Unit. Lower North is painting a polar bear and Lower South is creating an orca. We are continuing our unit on flags, but have narrowed the focus to the United States of America Flag. With this unit the students...Read More
This week the lower classrooms added a fun art activity to go alongside our Antarctica/Polar Region Unit. Lower North is painting a polar bear and Lower South is creating an orca. We are continuing our unit on flags, but have narrowed the focus to the United States of America Flag. With this unit the students...Read More
Early Childhood was busy this week with so many new works across all curriculum areas! Our beautiful light table was introduced to the classroom. This work allows children to explore color and shape and how light refraction enhances our colorful, transparent mediums. On our sensorial shelves we introduced a new unit-rough and smooth. The geo-solid bases...Read More
