chocolatey hot chocolate and a bonfire!

Today was a fabulous day for our fun winter activity! We began our morning by playing a morning greeting game, including the game "telephone." The kids seemed to really enjoy this game and tried really hard to pass the original message through the circle!

We later made choices in the room, such as reading books in the reading center, drawing on a grid, and building snowmen out of play-doh and loose parts! The students drew a city and planets on the grid and began talking about outer space and different planets in our solar system. One student asked the question, "How come the sun is a star and it comes out during the day? We see stars at night." There is potential for the class to become interested in learning about outer space...we will have to wait and see! (scroll through the pictures and continue reading about our day!)

After our morning activities, we had a fire drill. I am so impressed by how well they handle the fire drills. The kids take action and take the drill very seriously. AWESOME JOB, BIRCH FRIENDS! We quickly adventured over to the playscape where Ms. Katie made us a bonfire and we enjoyed cups of hot chocolate and marshmallows with our Sycamore and Spruce friends! 

Reminders: 

1. Please check your child's mailbox

2. This Friday is pajama day

Building a path to Willow!

Hello and welcome to our new blogging website!

This Tuesday has been a busy day full of building with blocks, weaving, stamping, book making, and building a path! We began our morning by talking about how Friday is pajama day. We shared our favorite pair of PJ's while playing a memory game! Each time someone shared their favorite pair of pajamas, the person had to repeat everyone's favorite pair. The students did a great job! They remembered a lot of their classmates' favorite jammies and they are getting excited for Friday.

Some students played and exercised in the gym while others worked with Willow friends to build a path (using the collaboratory blocks) to the Willow classroom. The students did a fabulous job at working together on this project, and took staying on the path and not falling in the "hot lava" very seriously. The students made the path all the way to the chairs, which are a little past the kitchen! We will continue this challenge a different day and start right where we left off.

We ended our morning by playing outside on the playscape and having a dance party in the classroom before lunch. Have a great rest of your Tuesday!

We've missed you, forest!

Good afternoon and welcome back from the weekend! The students were very excited to get outside and go to the FOREST!

We began our morning by playing with play-doh, sorting materials, and measuring objects around the room! We later bundled up and went to visit our great forest! They were very eager to get there and enjoyed running around the paths and collecting trash. Several students played "bear hunt" and others found a rabbit! They were very busy chasing after the rabbit. Other students went on treasure hunts and built forts with sticks. While walking back from the forest, we had a group of students counting to 100 and they got pretty far on their own!

Once we returned back to the classroom, we read some books. One book we read was a "We Story" book. Since it was a longer book, we did a picture walk through the story. The children described what they were seeing and shared what they thought was happening in the story. They shared how the story was about a little boy moving to America and making friends at his new school and wanting to play soccer.

*We will be having pajama day on Friday, December 21st!