Good afternoon Garden and Mountain families, This week the children learned about themselves.  The children sang songs about their bodies and how they move such as “Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes” and “The Ants go Marching.”  The children also read …

Hello Birch families, This week the curriculum focused on music around the world.  The children danced with scarves to African and Hawaiian music as well as listened to several different instruments.  During small circle, the class created music using shaker …

Good Afternoon Forest and River Families, This week in Forest, we explored dinosaurs! Inside the classroom, we read about dinosaurs and their habitats. Children pretended to be scientists looking for fossils and they worked to clean fossils with care. On …

Good afternoon Garden and Mountain families, This week the children worked on sorting and learning colors.  The children read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?, That’s not my Panda, and Baby Touch and Feel Colors and Shapes.  The …

Dear River and Forest Families:   Whoa!  Summer is nearly over!  Time flies when you’re having fun!  J  This summer in the River and Forest classrooms we’ve been focusing on child-led art centers.  I curate each center through a focus …

Good afternoon Cedar families, This week Dogwood and Cedar learned about colors! During small circle the children sang: “Slippery Fish”, “The More We Get Together”, and “I’m a Dirty Dinosaur” As a group we read: Colors, Colors, Everywhere, Llama Llama Red …

Hello Aspen families! This week the children have been learning all about their five senses. Monday was focused on sight, so we first talked about what our five senses are and then the children played the five senses sorting game. …

Good Afternoon Forest & River Families! This week in Forest, children created and analyzed graphs! For one graph, children tasted different snack variations and charted their favorite. After reading the chart, we determined that pretzels were the favorites, followed by …

Good Afternoon Evergreen Families This week in Evergreen, we continued to discuss different bugs and insects. Specifically, this week, we focused on bees. We began with a discussion about what facts the children already knew, followed by books about bees, …

Good afternoon Dogwood families, This week Dogwood and Cedar learned about colors! During small circle the children sang: “Slippery Fish”, “The More We Get Together”, and “I’m a Dirty Dinosaur” As a group we read: Colors, Colors, Everywhere, Llama Llama Red …