Preschool
The World As We Know It
In March we combined our class’ interest in maps and their interest in space. We learned that our school is in the Milky Way Galaxy, in a solar system, on the planet Earth, on the continent of North America, in the nation of the United States of America, in the state of North Carolina, in […]
Tarheel Triumph and Tragedy
What a roller coaster of a week! While we always had space study hovering in the background, with most of our friends still on Spring Break, we decided to devote some time to showing our Tarheel Pride. First we used the scraps leftover from the Miss Maria’s owl project. It was a good card stock […]
Easter Fun and Space Exploration
We ended last week with Easter celebrations including an Egg Hunt on our playground on Friday. My goal was to hide the eggs so well that when the children emerged from the classroom they saw nothing but an empty playground. The other teachers teased me, but my brainiac kids had no trouble rooting out every […]
Easter preparations
Tragically I lost all my pictures for the week thanks to a glitch in my overloaded computer, so this week will be sadly light on fun shots from our adventures. We finished up our two week exploration of rocks and fossils and are gearing up for the study of space starting next week, but in […]
Valentines and All That Jazz
During Valentine’s week, we continued with our pursuit of phonetics. The letter H begins Happy and Heart and our writers practiced writing for their Valentine’s cards. Everyone enjoyed making valentine’s collages for their families and each other. Miss Maria must have cut out 50 hearts every single morning as compositions became more layered and complex […]
Owls
In February, we completed our Owl Curriculum. Between our classroom collection and additions from the library, we read about owls every day for two weeks. We learned how their feathers are serrated to allow them to fly. We observed this when we compared barn owl and barred owl feathers. We talked about how owls […]
We Love Fossils!
What a fun week as we continue our exploration of rocks, geography, erosion, and now fossils. Our museum has grown exponentially as has both our interest and knowledge. Thanks to the Library, we’ve got about 20 books on the subject to reference and various projects for hands on experience. One of our favorite activities (much […]
Rocks Rock!
As it turns out, lessons on volcanoes and earthquakes lead naturally into discussions about geology. This week we “rocked” it out with a fascinating study of all the different rock formations that come from our earth’s crust. Some friends brought rocks in that we washed and put on display. Other rocks we used for art […]
Volcanoes and Vegetation
What a crazy fun week! Our new friend Samuel has a real passion for volcanoes, earthquakes, and other major disasters so I got a bunch of like minded books from the library to learn as much as we could and then decided to build our own. We also got to examine a hunk of obsidian […]
Puzzles and Pinecones
This week has been a bit anticlimactic considering the lack of birthday celebrations and holidays that we’ve gotten used to, but it opened the door for us to do normal school things, like arts and crafts projects and academic challenges that build our skills in writing, reading, counting, and letter recognition. Our big project […]
