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Hello October!

Hello October!

| October 10, 2016

October is off to a great start in the Toddler 2 class!  All month long we are making Halloween crafts!  This week we started by making monsters using coffee filters!  We are continuing with the alphabet and learned about the letter G this week.  We also learned about the shape “square” and counted all the […]

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E is for…

E is for…

| October 10, 2016

This week in Toddler Room 1, we learned about the letter E! We began the week off talking about the Earth and how we live on Earth. We had a miniature globe and found ourselves on the Earth. We used our Ocean Sensory bottles to represent the oceans on our planet. We then began talking […]

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Character Matters

Character Matters

| October 7, 2016

Not to blame hormones, but our heavily testosterone laden class sometimes needs reminding that we use gentle hands with our friends and girls don’t always like to be chased. After a few unfortunate incidents it was decided that we had to scrap plans to start our scientific study of animals and spend a week working […]

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Mathimatics in Children’s House 2-1

Mathimatics in Children’s House 2-1

| October 7, 2016

What an interesting week we have had in Children’s House 2-1! We learned counting in sequence from 1 to 20, and we learned to identify numbers from 1 to 10. We worked with simple addition and practiced writing the numbers 1, 2 and 3 on our mini boards. One of our art crafts involved a […]

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ch 1-1

ch 1-1

| October 6, 2016

WOW! What a wonderful week! We are officially in the month of October and the weather is starting to cool down! We have learned about the letter Ee and we have started shapes and colors! We have learned what a octagon is as well as a pentagon! One of our crafts was to make a […]

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Fall Fun

Fall Fun

| October 3, 2016

This week we learned about the letter F and colored fish!  We learned the sign language sign for “all done.”  For our craft this week, we used plastic bottles to paint fall leaves on trees.  The toddlers in the Toddler 2 class are looking forward to having more fun in October!

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Reading and the Letter “E”

Reading and the Letter “E”

| October 3, 2016

This week we had so much fun reading! We learned how to trace and write the letter “E”, both lower and upper cases. The letter “E” makes a long and a short sound and we found many words and objects that begin with both sounds. We learned how to read simple sentences and observed sight […]

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Goodbye, September!

Goodbye, September!

| September 30, 2016

We had a fun second week of our study of the alphabet, phonetics, and all things literary. We also had a record 5 people complete their academic challenges and another 3 who got honorable mention. Ms. Maddy and Ms. Brittany were extremely proud of everyone’s efforts, especially on Friday.     Oh, and that super […]

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Dancing Ducks!

Dancing Ducks!

| September 30, 2016

This week in Toddler Room 1, we focused on the letter D. We first began our week talking about dogs. We read a book that was all about dogs and looked at different kinds of dogs. We also discussed drums and how we use them for music. We made different drum sounds all week long. […]

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dog, daddy, dance, dinner and dragon!

dog, daddy, dance, dinner and dragon!

| September 29, 2016

We have talked all about the letter Dd this week! We started the week off with music and what words we thought started with letter Dd! We celebrated grahams 3rd birthday with the walk around the sun and some yummy fruit! We then stared our dragon craft! This included painting a ton of paper towel […]

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