Good evening Birch families, This week the Birch class focused their attention on different family members.  The class practiced the Spanish words for “Mom” (Mama), “Dad” (Dad), “Grandma” (Abuela), “Grandpa” (Abuelo) “Aunt” (Tia) and “Uncle” (Tio).  During small circle, the …

Good evening Birch families, This week the Birch class focused their attention on what it means to have manners.  The class learned the Spanish words for “Thank you”, “Please” and “You’re Welcome”.   During small circle, the class listened along to …

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”.  …

Good evening Birch families, This week the Birch class focused on apples and pumpkins!  The children learned the rhyme “Five little pumpkins”, made apple prints with paint and created jack-o-lanterns with orange paint and black paper. During small circle, the …

Good afternoon Birch families, This week, the Birch class focused their attention on yoga and calming activities.  As a group, the class learned the yoga poses “cat-cow”, “tree”, “butterfly”, “happy child” and “warrior”.  The class collected rocks on a nature …

Good afternoon Birch families. This week, the Birch class focused their attention on all the different kinds of emotions we feel.  The class observed themselves in the mirror as they mimicked happy, sad and angry faces, as well as searched …

Good afternoon Birch families, This week the Birch class focused their attention on all things fall!  The week was full of exploring leaves in the sensory table, observing leaves under magnifying blocks and crunching leaves under our feet while on …

Hello Birch families, This week the Birch class learned all about animals!  As a group, the class played animal matching games, imitated animal actions, guessed the animal sound and created numerous animal art!  During small circle the class listened along …

Good afternoon Birch families, This week the Birch class continued their discussion on the universe! During small circle, the children listened along to the books Roaring Rockets, My First Book About Space and Goodnight Moon.  The class also sang and …

Good afternoon Birch families, This week’s theme was “All About Me”.  The Birch class focused on family, friends and learning about their bodies.  During small circle, the class listened along to the books Look!, The Feelings Book and  I Feel …