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Aa is for Apple
This week we worked on the letter Aa. We looked at the letter A and worked on recognition of the letter. We then looked our picture book of the letter A. We learned new words that began with A such as anchor, arrow, and apron. We made a letter Aa Hat to remind us of […]
Back To School
Our first week of the new 2016-2017 curriculum school year started off splendidly! We welcomed our friend, Abby, into the classroom. She has moved up from the Children’s House 1-2 classroom. We have been learning all about the sounds that different letters make and putting the sounds together to make words. In circle time we […]
Its Welcome Week
This week on Toddler Room 1, we started our 2016-2017 School Year. We decided to start off with Welcome Week. We talked focused on All About Me. We talked about all of our favorite things such as colors and foods. We then focused on what we looked like. We used a mirror and let each […]
First Daze of School
What a fun first week! We got back to basics this week as welcomed several new friends and helped them learn all about our classroom. First, we take care of our environment… We also practiced things like letter/name recognition, phonetics, and handwriting… We take care of our minds and our bodies…. We celebrate each other’s […]
the swing of things
Here in ch 1-1 we are getting back into the swing of the school year. We started the week with naming our class rules which include… our shoes staying on, keeping our hands and bodies to yourself, walking feet and inside voices. We then went onto our school rules, hallway rules and our playground rules. […]
The Sky and Healthy Eating in Children’s House 2-1
We enjoyed a fun filled week working on some arts and crafts projects. We made the sun from recycled materials such as paper plates and crepe paper. Then we made the birds from egg cartons, construction paper and paint. We enjoyed our last “Splash Day” of the summer and can’t wait for next summer for […]
Goodbye Summer!
This week marked the last week of our Summer Themes, and the toddlers in the Toddler 2 class are very excited to start the new school year! We had a lot of fun ending our summer with the “Baby Boot Camp” theme. We learned all about sports, and had so much fun competing in our […]
Montessori Olympics
This week was geared more towards learning about the Olympics than a bootcamp. The children loved talking about the sporting events they watched at home. We made a list of the sports we remembered. They were gymnastics, swimming, basketball and running. We talked about how the athletes stay healthy and what foods were heathy or […]
Toddler Olympics
This was our last week of Summer Themes. In Toddler Room 1, we ended with our Olympic week. It was only right that we begin our week with an Opening Torch Ceremony. The Toddlers made a fun torch craft, which we introduced a new medium to them, tissue paper. They enjoyed taking the pieces of […]
ba ba baby boot camp
What a week! We have finished off our summer themes with non other than BABY BOOT CAMP! We are welcoming one of our friends Anna Borden to our classroom! She will start the new school year with us on Monday! We started the week with music then went into learning some exercises! We talked about […]
