Preschool
Countdown to Christmas
What a fun week! First we celebrated Avery’s 5th birthday with her walk around the sun, then we started on our beautiful classroom christmas tree. We decided to put on a holiday concert this year and have been practicing everyday. Our other holiday related endeavors include ornament making and bead stringing to create a colorful […]
End of Year Review
The students of Children’s House 2-1 spent the week reviewing everything that we have learned so far this semester. We reviewed our writing, numbers, letters, and shapes. We worked on our practical life skills, such as sweeping, pouring, scooping, folding and lacing. We are getting into the holiday spirit with our crafting. We have been […]
Lost In Space!
Though it’s taking a side seat to any Holiday related activities, for the next couple of weeks we’ll be talking about the solar system. A favorite theme for this age group, we’ve started our study with many fantastic library books and both group and individual rocket ship projects. Finally a few fun shots from […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
