First Snow
We are well into autumn. The leaves are gone and the cold has arrived! The children were still anxious to get outside and run around with their friends, dig in the sandbox, and play pretend. On Friday the cold weather finally coincided with some precipitation, and the excitement of the first small coating of snow […]
Endotherms
The snow is on the way! The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting colder, and the children have been running, running, running to stay warm. We began to learn songs for our Winter Performance, which will be held on Friday, December 19th, only six weeks away! All these cold weather songs began talk of winter, […]
Tricks and Treats
There was a lot of excitement this week in anticipation of Halloween. We made good use of our outside time running all around, playing word tag (I stretch a word out into the individual sounds and the children decode the word, shout it out, then run across the playground to the opposite fence), pushing logs, […]
Pumpkins and Fire Trucks
This cold rainy week was filled with lots of exciting activities! During Monday Art the students learned about the artist Jackson Pollock, then had a fabulously messy time creating their own splatter art masterpieces, which are currently displayed on our classroom wall. Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins! We were thankful for the three pumpkins that were donated […]