The children were so excited to see her! We also introduced a new math unit on fractions! Children learn parts of a whole up to one-fourth. Our first food preparation work was grape plucking. Using hands as our prepared tools first, children plucked grapes off the vine and enjoyed eating them. We used the corn...Read More

Early Childhood was full of festive fall works this week! We enjoyed drawing a face on a pumpkin, pounding golf tees into a pumpkin, and carving a real pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern! The community decided on what shape eyes, nose, and type of mouth to carve. The parts of a pumpkin were discussed and each...Read More

In Early Childhood West we painted a pumpkin at the Easel and polished gourds for some fun, seasonal work! Tray sweeping was introduced, a more refined area from floor sweeping to practice care of the environment. Students were able to sweep plastic ants! The first water lesson was also shown; sponge squeezing. Students use both...Read More

We continued increasing our fine motor skills as pin-punching was added to the pre-writing shelf. This work allows the child to focus on pincer grasp as they pin holes around a shape and then use hands to punch it out. Our new science unit was about land, air, and water. Students also discovered what animals...Read More

This week we had a lot of work that allowed us to strengthen our fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. These works included transferring pennies into a bank, and using a hammer/mallet to pound tees into clay, foam, corkboard, or playdoh. In writing, students used a marker to write on a mirror. The next dressing...Read More

Happy October! EC West began the week by introducing our first geography unit; Me! In Early Childhood, our geography focuses on the child’s place in the world, starting with ourselves. Works include looking in a mirror and drawing what we look like, recognizing that we are all people, but look different and have different aspects...Read More

The season of Autumn is here! Happy Fall! As we discussed this new season, our science unit reflects leaves and trees. We will be studying the different kinds of leaves, trees, and identifying parts of a leaf and tree. We enjoyed a fall hike this week as well and completed some fun tree rubbings outdoors!...Read More

Our sensorial shelf looks very colorful as we introduced our first sensorial unit this week on colors! Students identified colors by name, matched colors, and learned about primary and secondary colors. Our blue constructive triangles were also added to the sensorial shelf to explore different size triangles and their relationship to one another. Designs and creations can...Read More

After collecting our peace sticks last week, students had the opportunity to paint them. As a community we then put our peace sticks in a bundle and learned that we are stronger when together than we are by ourselves. We continued visual discrimination with our red rods in sensorial, learning the vocabulary of short and long....Read More

We hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend! We continued our fine motor skills this week in Practical Life through our tonging and fine motor baskets. Fine motor baskets include items for the students to manipulate skills such as zipping, snapping, opening/closing, and twisting. Our first dressing frame was added to the classroom to help...Read More