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Honoring Dr. King

Honoring Dr. King

| January 20, 2017

We are proud of the Unity, Peace, Love banner we hung in the hallway and talked about being kind to each other and why that’s important. Unfortunately between the short week and me missing a day due to a personal tragedy, none of my friends completed all of their challenges this week. Not to say […]

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Quilts and Queens

Quilts and Queens

| January 20, 2017

We had a fun filled week learning about the letter Q. We went over a number of Q-words including, quilt, queen, quiet, and quack. We even went over the difference between a porcupine quill and a writing quill. We also read different books about queens and quilts. Fun was had on friday when the the whole […]

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Oranges and Olaf are Our Favorite

Oranges and Olaf are Our Favorite

| January 20, 2017

Toddler 1’s week began with talking all about the letter O. We read a book with O words and one of our older toddlers pointed out Olaf! Due to this we listened to a lot of Frozen. We made a big O poster and posted some pics that began with the letter O. We also […]

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Snow!

Snow!

| January 17, 2017

This week we had our first snow day of 2017!  When we came back to school, the Toddler 2 class had so much fun playing in the snow on our playground!  But it didn’t last long… by the end of the week we were enjoying warm temperatures!  This week we learned about the letters S and […]

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From Snowmen to Sunbathing in 48 hrs…

From Snowmen to Sunbathing in 48 hrs…

| January 13, 2017

What can you say about a week like this? We had a slow start and low numbers as several inches of snow blanketed our school over the weekend, but WE LOVED IT! Even though we had to warm a lot of frozen fingers, we did get a lot of challenges done as the week went […]

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year

| January 13, 2017

Happy 2017!!! Last week was our first week back and we used the week as a review of the letters A to L that we learned in 2016. We also talked about the season winter and how it brings snow. We made handprint polar bears and talked about preparing ourselves for the upcoming snow storm. […]

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Starting A New Year

Starting A New Year

| January 10, 2017

January is off to a great start in the Toddler 2 class!  We started the year off by reviewing what we learned last year including our sign language signs and our numbers 1-20.  For our craft this week, we painted circles using toilet paper rolls!  We sang songs, enjoyed doing our Montessori work cycle, and had […]

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Animals and Insects All Around

Animals and Insects All Around

| January 10, 2017

We are all happy to be back at school after our holiday break at the end of December. Children’s House 2-1 got right back into the swing of learning about the animals and insects that we rely on to keep our world going. During our craft time, we all made beautiful paper butterflies. We read […]

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Pending Snowpocalypse!

Pending Snowpocalypse!

| January 6, 2017

What a fantastic first week back! We took a minute to readjust to classroom life and spent the rest of the week enjoying our friends to the fullest. So much so that only Livia finished her challenges this week. Congratulations, Livia! Our major project of the week was a mixed media collage that we created […]

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

| January 2, 2017

We ended the month of December with Winter Week!  Each day of the week the toddlers had fun dressing up with the different themes.  We learned about the letter R.  For our craft, we made an ornament for the school Christmas tree!  We also made ornaments to take home to put on our own trees! […]

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