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Pi Day And St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations

Pi Day And St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations

| March 19, 2018

This past week was so much fun for the Toddler 2 class!  Our letter for the week was Q, and our animal for the week was the shark.  For our craft, we used plastic bottles to paint spring leaves and flowers on trees.  On 3/14, we celebrated Pi Day!  Ms. Katema made us a pie […]

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The letter G and St. Patrick festivities

The letter G and St. Patrick festivities

| March 19, 2018

This week we did the letter G! We practiced tracing the letter G and also colored shamrocks green! We enjoyed music class! We love all the interactive songs Ms. Danni plays for us! We made cool st. Patrick’s day crafts. It was fun to get our hand painted like the rainbow!

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Dinosaurs Galore

Dinosaurs Galore

| March 19, 2018

We travelled back in time this week as we explored the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods (otherwise known as the Mesozoic Era) which, of course, is the time of the dinosaurs. Another project we enjoyed was making a fact poster about Dinosaurs that is now on display in the classroom. Then on Friday, we celebrated […]

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A Week Full of Color

A Week Full of Color

| March 16, 2018

This week CH-2 explored the world of color through various activities such as painting with popsicle sticks on Tuesday for art. In addition the class completed a comparison experiment using food coloring to what would happen when the colors were put in Vingear versus olive oil. Finally the children continues to work on their challenges […]

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Fishing for Ice

Fishing for Ice

| March 13, 2018

Last week flew by as the class was busy tackling various challenges such as writing their numbers, letters and reading comprehension. For art the class created spinners using string and coloring the white circles to reflect their own creativity . On science day the children went fishing for Ice cubes by pouring salt onto the […]

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Working And Learning

Working And Learning

| March 13, 2018

This past week, our letter of the week was P and our animal was the Tiger.  The toddlers enjoyed doing their Montessori Work Cycle.  We rearranged our schedule a bit and had music class with Ms. Danny on Wednesday instead of Monday.  For our craft, we painted flowers with Do-A-Dot paints.  We said goodbye to […]

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Fun with friends

Fun with friends

| March 13, 2018

We have been chugging along with our letters! We go finished up letters E and F! We colored frogs and practiced tracing our letters! We helped decorate our bored for St.Patricks day. We made fun fireworks, frogs, and flags for our crafts!  

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Space Race

Space Race

| March 12, 2018

Our exploration of our solar system continued into a second week and we loved every minute of it! Thanks to our wonderful Ms. Laura we had tons of space related art activities and games. A few fun pictures from the week.

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Artic Scavenger Hunt

Artic Scavenger Hunt

| March 5, 2018

In CH-2 we had a busy and exciting week. Several of the challenges worked on included writing their letters as well as their phonetics. For art day the children enjoyed creating their own books and going on artic animal scavenger hunt . On science day the class learned about how birds such as penguins keep […]

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Let Your Imagination Fly

Let Your Imagination Fly

| March 5, 2018

In CH-2 last week the children worked on their challenges such as reading, writing and phonetics . For art the children made foam animals after we discussed the different animals you can find in Africa and Asia such as lions and monkeys. For science day the class was given marshmallows, straws and toothpicks to see […]

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