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Talking about Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving celebrations have been the topic of discussion in Children’s House 2-1 this week. We learned about why we celebrate Thanksgiving and what is means to us today. Family, friends and the different types of traditional foods were all talked about and each of our friends told us how their families celebrated Thanksgiving. We made paper turkey legs […]
Fridays are for fun and blogs!
What can we say? We have had a super fun week in our lovely classroom! We started the week with music Monday and talked about the letter Gg. We painted Gg with GREEN paint and we painted and cut our creepy Green Garden snakes. Playing in water beads is our new favorite even though it […]
Igloos and Jellyfish
This past two weeks have been great in Toddler Room 1. We learned about the letters I and J! For letter I, we learned about igloos and ice. We made our own using cotton balls as our medium. We also went over ice cream. We tasted vanilla ice cream and it was so yummy. We […]
Jungle Kittens
Last Week we focused on the letter j. We read jungle books and made jellyfish with Miss Olivia. This week was centered on the letter k. In-between hopping like a kangaroo and meowing like a kitten, we’ve practiced making the letter k out of colored paper strips of paper. We also learned about being kind. […]
letter f
This week we learned about the letter Ff. We learned the sound it makes and what words start with it. We made a Popsicle stick fox and created plate flowers! We face painted to look like football players! We had a dance party and had a ton of fun on fun Friday. next up.. LETTER […]
Feelings and Emotions
This week has just zipped by in Children’s House 2-1. We learned about feelings and emotions. For our craft we made faces out of paper plates, yarn and google eyes. We drew on facial expressions with magic markers. We played the “Silence” game, finger play and sing along games. We painted shapes using sponges cut […]
A Patriotic Week
This week in the Toddler 2 class, the toddlers experienced their very first Presidential Election! We celebrated Election Day by coloring themed coloring pages! We also celebrated Veteran’s Day this week with more themed coloring pages! For our craft this week, we made handprint flamingoes! And we continued with our alphabet lessons and learned all […]
“Duck for President”
On Monday, we were excited, filled with hope, and ready for the election. On Tuesday, we were still excited, filled with hope, and ready for the results. We talked about our community, practiced voting and read “Duck for President.” It’s a story about a duck who doesn’t like his working conditions so he decides to […]
Goodbye October, Hello November!
This week started off with our Halloween celebration! The toddlers loved wearing their costumes to school and going trick-or-treating to all of the classrooms! This week we learned the sign language sign for “milk” and all about the letter K. For our craft this week, we did fingerpainting using white paint on black paper. We […]
