Hello Aspen families,  This week the children have been working hard at sorting! We talked about what it means to sort items and the kids observed differences between sorting groups, such as one group is the color green and another …

Good Afternoon Evergreen Families This week in Evergreen children spent time working outdoors! The hot weather this week has had the children enjoying waterplay more than ever. They continue to connect tubes to watch the water flow or test how …

Good afternoon Dogwood families, This week our older toddlers got to go to the big circle room to look at many different bugs, including butterflies, crickets, cockroaches, and spiders! During small circle the children sang “Zoom Zoom”, “The Itsy Bitsy …

Good Afternoon Forest Families! This week in Forest the children continued to experiment with water. They separated mixtures like oil, sand, and salt from water. The class also made a magnetic water jar. During an experiment using static electricity the …

Hello River families! This week we have been learning about invertebrates, specifically insects and arachnids.  The class has really enjoyed a robo-spider that walks around and climbs small inclines.  We also had a visit from Nature’s Educators.  They brought quite …

Good afternoon Birch families, This week the Birch class learned all about their five senses.  The class taste tested herbs from our garden, observed what makes sound and what doesn’t and did a smell test with different scents. During small …

Good afternoon Dogwood families, This week Dogwood and Cedar’s lesson plans centered around senses! The children explored touch with boxes filled with different sensory materials (cotton balls, rough felt, feathers, fake fur). The children explored smell when they smelled scented …

Good afternoon Cedar families, This week Dogwood and Cedar’s lesson plans centered around senses! The children explored touch with boxes filled with different sensory materials (cotton balls, rough felt, feathers, fake fur). The children explored smell when they smelled scented …

Good afternoon Garden and Mountain families, This week the children experimented with paints, rolling balls, sand, and magnetic “Grippie” blocks.  The children read books with sounds and textures to explore such as Touch and Feel ABC, Noisy Touch and Feel …

Hello Aspen families, I hope you’ve all had a wonderful week. This week’s theme was cooking, so in big circle we looked at different kitchen utensils and talked about what they are called and how to use them. The utensils …