It was a short week after the teacher workday on Monday. Did your children tell you about some of the changes we made in our room? We have an office to "work" in with writing tools, an old school rotary phone, an abacus, and a keyboard. We also have ... [Read More]
Friendly Foxes :: Week Seven
Hello, Friendly Fox families! What a wonderful week of learning all about farms, harvests and Autumn we’ve had. We have been learning so much about why farms are important, such as how this is where a lot of our food comes from. We have learned ... [Read More]
Bluebirds Week 6
Hello, Bluebird Families! We had an amazing week full of apples! We had so much fun on our field trip to the apple orchard at Doe Creek Farm on Monday. We had a great time picking apples and having a picnic. The children said that their favorite ... [Read More]
The Honey Bees :: Week Six
It was a busy week beginning with the emergence and release of a beautiful monarch last Monday. It gave us lots of time to look at all those dazzling polka dots and think about the stripes of the monarch caterpillar. On Monday we also made prints ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes Week Six
Hello, Friendly Fox Families!What a wonderful week of Ornithology we have had. This is a subject dear to my heart; birds are so lovely and fascinating that I am wondering why we only studied them for one week! We will actually be learning more about ... [Read More]
Bluebirds Week Five
Hello, Bluebird Families! This week we continued our study of apples. We read books together like, Our Day at the Apple Orchard, An Apple Tree Through the Year, Johnny Appleseed, and How does an Apple Grow? We made our own apples out of paper ... [Read More]
Friendly Foxes :: Week Five
What a lovely gift this warm weather has been! We have enjoyed extending our Entomology unit into this week with all the opportunities to see real insects in action outdoors. We have been closely watching our three monarch chrysalises, and were able ... [Read More]
Honey Bees :: Week Five
I'm hoping this was our last very hot week because I really want to move into Fall. We started off the week with a process based art project printing "honey comb" onto paper after applying paint to bubble wrap with a brush. We'll continue to add ... [Read More]
Bluebirds Week Four
Hello, Bluebird Families! Your children are amazing, and I am so happy to spend my days with them! We continued to practice calendar skills, tracing and writing our names, matching uppercase and lowercase letters with each other and their sounds, ... [Read More]
Friendly Foxes :: Week Four
Hello, Friendly Fox Families! We have had a wonderful week of Entomology fun. We are learning so much about insects, metamorphosis, and life cycles. We have truly focused on butterflies and caterpillars this week, noticing how our class monarch ... [Read More]
