Hello, Friendly Foxes! It has been a lovely, busy fun-filled week at school. We have been thoroughly enjoying our oceanography unit. We have learned so much about the oceans, the different zones, and the creatures who live there. This week ... [Read More]
Ancient Egypt Week and Post- Spring Break Review
The week before Spring break our class traveled far back in time to the enchanting location of Ancient Egypt! The class had great fun building their own abacuses, built a Cairo Market where they learned to barter for what they wanted, and learned ... [Read More]
Friendly Foxes Week 24
Hello friendly foxes! This past week we thoroughly enjoyed diving into our oceanography unit. We began discussing the oceans of the world, and how wonderfully diverse and interesting they are. We know that there are five oceans, and this coming ... [Read More]
The Honey Bees Week 24
I hope you have had a chance to come by our room because it is looking very prehistoric. On Friday they even requested that we make a flying reptile together. I love that they are finding that we can create our own environments as we learn about new ... [Read More]
Friendly Foxes Week 23
Hello, Friendly Foxes! We hope you all have had a lovely and relaxing Spring Break. Here's hoping for lots of playground-friendly sunshine! We spent the last week continuing our owl unit, branching out to study more species. We were treated to ... [Read More]
Honey Bees :: Week 23
I hope everyone is enjoying Spring Break. I'm actually sitting in this incredibly quiet classroom planning summer camps and contemplating cleaning out the closet. We continued down the dinosaur path this week, creating our herbivore and carnivore ... [Read More]
Health Week Part II (and small business Tuesday!)
We had a "strong" week learning more about health, particularly about our muscles! We learned about the cardiac muscle -- and others -- but the students enjoyed doing a cardiac muscle test where they listened to their heart with a stethoscope while ... [Read More]
Friendly Foxes Week 22
Hello Friendly Foxes! We have had a wonderfully exciting week at school. We received the best surprise: Jan Brett wrote back to us! She sent a beautiful package in the mail to us, full of lovely items for us to share with one another. The children ... [Read More]
The Honey Bees :: Week 22
Our dinosaur study continued this week, but I'll circle back around and show the class the SpaceX ship that docked on the International Space Station this earlier in the week. The class has been talking about our solar system mobile and announced ... [Read More]
Friendly Foxes Week 21
Hello Friendly Foxes! Due to Presidents’ Day and a snow day it was a short week at preschool, but a sweet one. We spent the days wrapping up our Antarctic unit studies. We enjoyed learning about leopard seals and then made our own to play on shiny ... [Read More]