Dear Birch families, This week was all about family! The children worked to identify the different members of their family. The class was excited to discuss their parents, siblings, and grandparents. For art this week the children created “self portraits” …

Dear Birch Families, We had another wonderful week in the Birch classroom.  This week the children took a deeper look at emotions.  The class worked to review what it looks like when someone is feeling happy or sad.  They observed …

Dear Birch Families, The class had a great first full week of school! Our focus this week was All About Me, emotions and a peaceful classroom.   For art this week the children made collages using glue and tissue paper.   …

Dear Birch families, The class had a great week this week as we approach the end of summer.  We started the week by celebrating Colorado Day, which was on August 1.  The children identified animal sounds of some native animals …

Dear Birch families, The children had a fun week as we wrapped up our STEM unit.  We worked more on stacking and building using wood blocks and Legos.  A ramp was set up so that the children could experiment with …

Dear Birch families, This was a fun week as we continued our unit on STEM.  The children focused a lot on early math skills this week. Counters were used to practice one-to-one counting, the children examined big vs. little items, …

Dear Birch families, This week was all about colors.  We enjoyed spraying water on the coffee filters we colored and seeing how the colors mixed together.   We did a scavenger hunt to identify all of the colors we see …

Dear Birch families,  This week we made more bugs! The children made a snail with tissue paper and plates. We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar during circle time and then pretended to be a caterpillar by crawling on our bellies. …

Dear Birch families,  This week was all about bugs! We read Charlie the Caterpillar and Bugs. The children enjoyed singing “Five Green, Speckled Frogs” and “Baby Bumblebee,” the bug friendly version! The class learned that some bugs have wings and …

Dear Birch families,  This week we read Down By The Bay and Stuck. During circle time the class played a fun vegetable matching card game. We explored our nature a little more with tree bark rubbings. The children also had so …