This week we began exploring the Holiday of Christmas. Children had the opportunity to use mini Christmas trees to decorate as well as set up a nativity scene. We read books about Christmas and how different families can celebrate this Holiday in different ways or traditions. We demonstrated our “Sensorial Christmas Tree” work that...Read More

    We are beginning to learn about all the different Holidays that take place during the month of December. This week we started with Hanukkah. We read books about this Festival of Lights, played the dreidel game, and discussed the eight nights, traditions, customs, and what the Menorah is. We then learned about Kwanzaa and...Read More

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday with family. This week, we kicked off our “Hannah’s Socks” project to donate socks to people in need. We enjoyed wearing our fun socks together! In the classroom, we introduced many new sensorial works that included opening our bell table to play the first bell. We added...Read More

We are reflecting on what it means to be thankful this week! Many works reflect preparations in the home for family gatherings as well as for the feast we will prepare in our Early Childhood community. Works include setting a place at the table, using a baster, sorting silverware, rolling and folding napkins, filling a cornucopia...Read More

Many new units were introduced this week. In math, we studied equality/inequality as we learned about quantities that are greater than, less than, and equal to. Ask your child about the “Greedy Duck.” We also explored our next science unit on land, air, and water. Children identified objects, pictures, and animals and how they travel....Read More

Happy November! On Halloween, we discussed the parts of a pumpkin and carved it into a Jack-O-Lantern. We then roasted the seeds and tasted them! We also did a pumpkin experiment to observe the reaction using baking soda, dish soap, and vinegar. We introduced a new sensorial unit about big and little. The triangle box...Read More

We continued our fun fall celebrations this week! Artworks included using a marble in paint to roll on black paper to make a spider web and painting a pumpkin on the easel with orange and green paint! Our Kindergarteners had their first field trip to the pumpkin patch, and our younger friends enjoyed a pumpkin...Read More

We enjoyed many pumpkin works this week! Children transferred rings onto a pumpkin stem, placed rubber bands over the lined pattern of a pumpkin, pounded golf tees into a pumpkin, and drew a face on a pumpkin using markers! More practical life work, including tray sweeping and polishing gourds! Our new science unit this week...Read More

This week, we introduced our first math unit on fractions! Children learned the parts of a whole up to one-fourth and are working on understanding fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and 1/5. We continue to reflect on our inner peace through tracing our finger labyrinth. It looks the same as our large one located in the...Read More

Fall is among us! Our new science unit this week was all about apples! We learned about parts of an apple, different kinds of apples, and tasted a red delicious, golden delicious, granny smith, and gala apple. Thank you to the families who donated apples to this unit! We also painted an apple on the...Read More