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All About Ants
Our theme this past week was “Ants Go Marching.” We sang the song “The Ants Go Marching One By One.” We also learned all about ants. We learned about the different parts of an ant, how much weight an ant can carry, how long ants live, and other fun ant facts! For our craft this […]
The Zoo, Continents, & Ants!
These last 3 weeks have been great! We started our Summer Themes. Our first one was At the Zoo. We learned all about different Zoo Animals and acted like our very favorite animals. Our next week was Continents around the world. We learned that there were 7 different continents and learned about the different languages. […]
Counting Turtles!
We decided to interpret this week’s summer theme “The Ants Go Marching…” as a focus on numbers. All week we read math books, discussed math concepts, and had an epic week for challenge completions. 151 to be exact. Of course, I’m always looking for ways to develop fine motor skills and strengthen fingers, so we […]
Bugs, Bugs, and More Bugs!
This week our theme was the “Ants Go Marching,” so of course we had to learn about the different insects! We welcomed Lara and Madi into our classroom this week, and we are thrilled to have two new friends! Splash day was cancelled due to the rain, but we watched trolls instead so we could […]
World Continents
Our theme this past week was “Continents Of The World.” We learned about the 7 continents and painted a map of the continents and oceans using our handprints. On Friday, we had an International Food Celebration and tried food from all over the world including places like South Africa, Japan, Israel, and Iran! This week […]
Around the World in One Week!
This week we celebrated “continents of the world,” as our summer theme. We had two art projects this week that we now have hanging in the classroom. First, we colored a world map and used our maps to learn about where each continent was. On Flag Day, we painted an American Flag and learned about […]
Thanks, Dad!
This week we went around the world, discussing the seven continents and learning unique features about each of them. We also officially kicked off our summer fun with Splash Day! Other than that, we worked on our Father’s Day gifts, to let our dads know how much we love and appreciate them. […]
Our Week At The Zoo!
Last week was the first week of our Summer Themes! Our theme for the week was “At The Zoo.” We learned about animals that have spots and animals that have stripes. We also listened to the sounds that many popular zoo animals make! For our craft, we colored zoo animals. On Friday, many of our […]
Keeping Cool
This week in Children’s House 2-1 we continued to work on our challenges as well as had some fun in the water to keep cool. This week the children were given new work sheets to help them complete various challenges. The older children worked on their addition and number recognition while the younger ones worked […]
Zoo Review
We revisited zoo animals this week as our first theme of the summer. Some of us took this theme to heart and became zoo animals for the week. Lol! We also had a super cool art project this week… a giant Peacock! We loved doing all our old favorite activities… Of course, we also had […]
