Monthly Archives: October 2016


October 28


Good afternoon Evergreen families! This week in Evergreen the children celebrated the pumpkin patch. We read The Pumpkin Patch, and discussed the life cycle of a pumpkin. They explored gourds in science, and compared the size of seeds from small 

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October 28


Good afternoon Birch families, This week the class focused their attention on all things Halloween!  The children created bats, spiders and pumpkins during art and learned the songs “Flutter, flutter little bat” and “One little, two little, three little pumpkins”.  

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October 28


Hello Garden and Mountain Families. This week we focused on a theme of ‘pumpkins.’ Though many of the children say “ball” when they see pumpkins, they have seemed to enjoy the theme. We looked at pictures in many different books 

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October 28


Dear River Families, This week in River we continued studying owls and bats! Centers this week included listening to a silly story about monsters and then worked to build our new sight words with magnetic letters and the moveable alphabet. 

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October 28


Good afternoon Forest Families! This week in Forest we started our new play theme of Grocery Store! All week children have been creating props and decorations to turn our classroom into different sections of a grocery store. Children created flowers 

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Spanish – October 28, 2016


We finished learning some of the words in the alphabet “El Alfabeto”: CH:  chocolate,  el Chaleco –  vest, el Chicle – gum D:   Dedo – finger, los dedos de los pies – toes, el Dinosaurio E:    Elefante, la escuela – 

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PE – October 28, 2016


Children are natural movers and are constantly moving.  It has been shown that physical activity not only improves focus, but exercise grows brain cells as well.  Active kids make better learners.  At Treehouse, the Physical Education (P.E.) program begins in 

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October 28


Good afternoon Cedar families, This week in Dogwood and Cedar was all about pumpkins!  The children read Ten Orange Pumpkins, The Itsy Bitsy Pumpkin, Marley and the Runaway Pumpkin, and This Pumpkin.  The children sang “Five Little Pumpkins,” “I’m a 

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October 28


Good afternoon Dogwood families, This week in Dogwood and Cedar was all about pumpkins!  The children read Ten Orange Pumpkins, The Itsy Bitsy Pumpkin, Marley and the Runaway Pumpkin, and This Pumpkin.  The children sang “Five Little Pumpkins,” “I’m a 

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October 28


Happy Friday Aspen Families! This week in Aspen we focused on the fun in our immediate environment, Halloween. We created mummies with tape as well as candy corns using paint and purple sand. We also created paper plate jelly fish. 

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