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 with the care of oneself. This was the zipping dressing frame. Our first geography lesson on our globes and the hemisphere map was shown. Children learn the names of the seven continents. We went outside and gathered our “peace sticks.” Students were invited to find one stick to represent themselves that we will do something special with in the coming weeks. Stay tuned! For art, we used our torn paper from last week to glue and create collages! We also added Color box 1 to our sensorial shelf which introduces the primary colors of red, blue, and yellow. We had a surprise in our classroom this week, We found a chrysalis on one of our plant leaves. We observed and shared discussion in this together and on Wednesday afternoon a monarch butterfly emerged right before our eyes! We went outside to release it. What an incredible experience we shared as a community!