Hello, Friendly Fox Families!
What a wonderful second week of school we had! We spent the week finding ways to feel comfortable in our classroom, building friendships, and exploring all of the wonderful things there are to do here. We spent some time making sure we can find the different places to be quiet, to be silly, and to be creative and use our imaginations, and how to ask for help when we need it. We truly want our students to know that this is a kind and safe space where they are loved and can love learning.
As Friendly Foxes, we decided to make a Class Agreements sign to hang. We made hand tracings to add to our sign so that we can have a visual reminder to always be kind and safe at school, and that way everyone can have fun! We spent a morning making beautiful self-portraits, which you can now find on our bulletin board. The children are so proud of these! We noticed ourselves and our unique features in mirrors for this activity, as well as for making our sign-in pocket people. The children truly enjoyed snipping fabric and yarn to dress their little people. We are using these to sign in each day, so please feel free to help your child do this each morning. We introduced our Author of the Month, Mo Willems. The children are thrilled about this, as he has written so many wonderful books that are fun to read and often also deliver a great message. We made our own September calendar pages, played a fun dice rolling alphabet board game (they loved this!), introduced some fun pretend play games, made patterns, created beautiful finger-paintings, built some tiny schools, loved some sensory playtime, made lovely free-art creations, enjoyed playing outside and so much more! We also enjoyed our first weekly music class with Ms. Marci, and our first weekly story time with Storyman Bob. In the afternoons we are thrilled to have fun middle school volunteer friends joining us two afternoons per week.
You can follow us along daily throughout the year on Instagram at “childrensgardenschool”.
In Week 3 we will be learning about Nocturnal and Diurnal animals. This will give us a great opportunity to learn more about foxes since we are the Friendly Foxes! We have many fun and engaging activities planned to make this a wonderfully fun unit.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful children with us!
Wynne, Nancy, Taulbee (and soon, Christina)
