Early childhood lessons this week included many works in Practical Life. The students cut velcro fruits and vegetables using a wooden slicer and cutting board. We also rolled napkins, used a turkey baster, and sorted silverware. All of these works strengthen and lengthen concentration as well as refine fine motor control. They are helpful...Read More
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 switched...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. We also introduced voting to the students! We...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 the...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...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
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. Our...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...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
Our first full week of school has brought many new works and exciting activities! Specials started this week for the students including music, spanish, Kindergarten Art, and Kindergarten P.E! More areas of the classrooms were opened and introduced including our Peace Corner, Sensorial area, and the movement shelf. Within the Peace corner, the peace rose...Read More