This week we celebrated our 100th Day of School! Each friend brought in 100 items from home to share and display in our hallway! We also counted to 100 by tens and fives. Other activities included writing the numerals 1-100 and fun coloring page patterns! In math, we added the mystery number to the...Read More
Our new science unit for the month is on the Muscular System. The Muscular System is responsible for the strength and movement of the human body. Students are learning that we have three different types of muscles: involuntary, voluntary, and cardiac. Other activities on the shelf include parts of an eye, labeling the different muscles,...Read More
Our students walked to the local Library, where they were given a full tour, library card applications, and help finding research books for their writing project. Students were respectful and excited during the tour, where they found many great books! The librarians shared that they were impressed with our students. Afterward, we went to...Read More
Early Childhood was busy this week with many new works across all curriculum areas! First, 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. Our sensory area also introduced our next shape box, the Rectangle Box. ...Read More
Our students walked to the local Library, where they were given a full tour, library card applications, and help finding research books for their writing project. Students were respectful and excited during the tour, where they found many great books! The librarians shared that they were impressed with our students. Afterward, we went to Grounds...Read More
We focused on celebrating the Chinese New Year this week in Early Childhood! We created dragon masks and tails and had a special parade with our West and Toddler classroom friends throughout the school. In science, we began investigating magnets and even explored painting with magnetic materials on the art shelf. In art, we...Read More
This week we celebrated the Chinese New Year. We learned about the Year 2023 being the year of the rabbit, what animal our own birth year represented, colored the flag of China, and traced Chinese numbers. The students were also very excited to showcase their dragon masks and tails as they paraded around the school!...Read More
We experienced our first snow day cancellation this week. The students were excited to tell us how they spent their day in the snow! We have moved on to a new Word Study Unit. We are practicing our ABC order and using guide words to locate words in a dictionary. This will be useful for...Read More
We experienced our first snow day cancellation this week. The students were excited to tell us how they spent their day in the snow! We have moved on to a new Word Study Unit. We are practicing our ABC order and using guide words to locate words in a dictionary. This will be useful for...Read More
In math, students are working on fractions. They are working on everything from the subtraction of unlike denominators to the multiplication of decimals. In spelling, students are working on homophones. In writing, students are working on research. In history, students have been working on flag symbolism. In science, we are conducting weather experiments. We have...Read More
