Skip to main content

Welcome to week #5!

Happy Monday Pine Family! Sometimes it's hard to get our week started with smiles but we made it. This week we will be continuing our word of the week HELP. Our center invitations have changed to support our word of the week learning. For our first area, Creation Station, we introduced a new school tool: scissors! We will practice cutting some straight lines, curvy lines and zig zag lines. We never waste our paper, we will turn it all into beautiful art! When our hands get tired of cutting, we are discovering how shapes can be put together to make pictures that look like animals. In our second area, Explore Galore, we opened up a Veterinarian shop so we can practice HELPing care for animals and continue to explore our small world, now with magnifying glasses. In our third area, Discovery Zone, we thought back to our story, One Duck Stuck, and the animals we met. Those animals are available, along with blocks, so our friends can retell the story, HELP build houses, etc.

**If anyone is looking around their house at things they no longer want, we are looking for some donations. We would love some toy animals, especially ones that look real! (We have a good amount of Zoo/Jungle but would love some more forest, farm, bugs, and unique.) We would also love a small, single person, trampoline to house in our room for various activities and sensory needs. These are not things that we need you to go buy or give up if you actively use them at home.**

REMINDER: tomorrow is forest day!!!! Please try to apply bug spray before school/or at drop off as this helps our process in getting out the door. Many kiddos have rubber boots here that we can put on before our outdoor adventures as needed.










Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 2 Pine Room Fun!

For our invitations we have our small world were we can tell stories about what our families like to do outside. In our dramatic play we are showing how we can care for others, including our baby dolls. Outside we are checking out how fun our giant snail and mud kitchen are.
Post a Comment
Read more

Tree Swing

The Pine kids were SO excited to get back to the forest today. Because S spends the beginning of her day in another classroom, she was already familiar with a coveted branch that hung low enough for the kids to try and swing on.  "There's a tree swing at the forest, we should all do it!" S, who seemed to display a high level of confidence, took a hold of the branch as R handed it to her. She took a deep breath and jumped off the log.  S swung with grace over the ground.  The others watched in awe and quickly lined up to take turns.  Each friend took a different approach and not always quite sure on how to get the same kind of lift and swing S did. W seemed unsure on the whole activity, but was willing to try. He couldn't quite get the desired swinging motion and lost interest after his first try.  L saw how the others were swinging and although a little scared, decided to try several times in a row be...
Post a Comment
Read more

Creek Time

  Happy Tuesday! We spent our entire afternoon out at Larson Park! It was definitely a hot one so when the kids heard we were going to get to play in the creek, they screamed in excitement. Not everyone wanted to stomp around in the shallow water and that was a-okay. Such a fun afternoon splashing around, exploring, and doing a great job sticking together as a class! 
Post a Comment
Read more