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Halloween Fun
Halloween was celebrated with great enthusiasm in Children’s House 2-1! We had power rangers, doctors, princesses and skeletons. We paraded all around the school to all of the classrooms getting treats along the way. What fun! We continued our color work this week learning how to make the secondary color green from yellow and blue. […]
Humans: An Inside Perspective
This week started with the most awesome Halloween party ever! Then we sequed seamlessly from Halloween skeletons into our study of the body, both reptile, mammal, and especially humans. We also did extremely well on our academic challenges, with some friends making the list for the first time! We love artistic activities. This week […]
Halloween!!!!!
This was such a fun and busy week in Toddler Room 1! We started off our week celebrating Halloween! We had a Halloween Parade and did some classroom trick or treating. We all dressed up and had a variety of costumes from monkeys to Little Red Riding Hood. Afterwards, we worked on the letter H! […]
Halloween Week & Space
What a week for a ton of fun. We started our week by ending the month of October with Halloween! We dressed in out Halloween best and went trick or treating around school.. needless to say we got tons of goodies! We then started talking all about space. We talked about how some planets are […]
H is for Halloween
The last two weeks have been about the letter h and Halloween. During h week, we learned about the heart and what its purpose is in our body. We compared pictures of an actual heart and the heart shape. We had a classroom discussion on the differences and how one heart was for pumping blood […]
Happy Halloween!
The toddlers had so much fun getting ready for Halloween this past week! We danced to Halloween music and read Halloween books. For our craft this week, we painted pumpkins. We even got to get messy playing with green slime! We also learned about the color blue and the letter J. We celebrated our friend […]
Pets are the BEST!
This week we talked about how awesome animals are when they become members of our families. We discussed all the different things that we have to do to be responsible for our pets and read many books about the subject. For theme related art projects we made vet vests out of paper bags… We also […]
The Great Pumpkin-Lanterns!
Its Halloween Week! We celebrated Halloween everyday this week. We read spooky Toddler approved stories every day. Our favorite book was called Monster Mischief. We learned about all of the common Halloween monsters such as witches, zombies, Frankensteins, mummies, vampires, and werewolves. We practiced acting like all of the monsters and had so much fun. […]
Writing
This week in Children’s House 2-1 we learned how to trace and write letters during the Montessori work cycle. We learned how to write words as well and even make short sentences. We enjoyed working on water color paintings as well. Our favorite book this week was “Madeleine” by Ludwig Bemelmans. We practiced our cutting […]