Happy Valentine’s Day! We reflected on our loving friendships this week and had a lot of festive fun together! Everyone decorated and made a Valentine’s bag for our party to pass out Valentine’s to one another. Our art shelf also had work to create, color, and cut out a valentine to deliver to a friend! Color box 4...Read More

Happy February! Did you hear that Groundhog Phil predicted six more weeks of winter weather? The winter weather goes right along with our new science unit this week on animal tracks. Many deer tracks have been spotted in the snow! Students learned about a variety of animals and what their tracks look like. They enjoyed stamping prints...Read More

A short, but lesson-filled week! Students continue to learn about the use of positive and negative space within an art project. This was represented through cutting out and gluing both snowmen to paper. In Sensorial, the binomial cube was added to the shelf and a new unit on smelling was introduced. By using their olfactory sense,...Read More

A new science unit was explored this week all about magnets! Students began to identify objects that were magnetic or non-magnetic. A large magnet was used to find items in our classroom environment and record if they were magnetic or non-magnetic. Magnetic putty and using a magnet to track a marble through a maze were...Read More

Welcome back from Winter Break and Happy New Year! We began the week reviewing our classroom responsibilities and sharing about our holidays. Bouncing on the exercise ball was a fun, new movement lesson for our core! New sensorial and math units were introduced this week. Sound and no sound was explored using our sense of hearing....Read More

What a fun and festive week we had! The week began with a wonderful band performance by our Upper and Middle school students. Our class enjoyed the sing along songs and all the instruments! We had a lesson about gift wrapping and gift giving. Friends had the opportunity to wrap a present and deliver it...Read More

This week we began discussing many holiday cultures and traditions. First, we explored and learned about Hanukkah, an eight day Jewish “festival of lights” celebration. Students discovered the joy of playing the dreidel game with gelt, transferred candles into a Menorah, painted the Star of David, read books about Hanukkah, and made a booklet of...Read More

Happy December! The students arrived back from the Thanksgiving holiday eager to share what they did and what foods were their favorites! In the classroom, our bell table was introduced with the first lesson of using a mallet to strike the bell and using a damper to stop the sound. Many other sensorial lessons were...Read More

This week, we reflect on friends, family, and what we are thankful for. The children brought home a special thankful for project they have been working on. We learned about the cornucopia this week and transferred fruits and vegetables to fill it. Real turkey feathers were explored and arranged in a turkey basket.  As we...Read More

This week, we had many Sensorial works, including color box 3 for grading colors into light, medium, and dark. The geometric cabinet drawers were all open for exploration and vocabulary of the names of shapes. The large hexagon box was shown, introducing the hexagon, rhombus, and parallelogram. In practical life, the students used knives to...Read More