Wednesday March 20, 2013

Happy first day of Spring!

In the Walnut room, the children were having a lot of fun with the piano and watching for the vibrations.

In the Oak room, the pottery wheel was open and they were making rockets with wood.

In the Maple room, the children were very busy sawing at the wood at the woodworking table.

In the Pine room, we had some children that were going to a ball with their baby boys.

In the hallway, the children were working with highlighters and black lights.

Ms. Rasmussen & Ms. Bonner

Happy Tuesday!

We had a fun filled day today at school! :)

This morning, in the Kitchen children were busy practicing cracking eggs and making mini omelettes! 

The Indoor Movement Room was filled with children playing balloon volleyball!

The hallway was filled with playing instruments, get well card making, and drawing pictures in the black light hallway!

 

In the Walnut room there was a light activity where the children saw the different vibrations from the sounds that were coming from the piano. 

 

                      “It looks like waves from the ocean.”               “It’s making the vibrations because it’s louder.”                              Tristan                                              Nicholas

In the Oak Room, children were super busy with the shaving cream & drawing portraits of themselves.

 

'I have blue eyes, and these dots along my nose are freckles!" - Sidney N

Talia, William and Kelly were also dancing to ballet music!

 

 "Watch me leap like a ballerina!" - Talia 

Wood working and building different kinds of towers is still popular in the Maple room! 

In the afternoon, the children in the Pine room were playing charades! The children came up with their own ideas and drew the different kinds of pictures that they were acting out!

We hope your day was just as fun as ours!

Stay warm! :) 

Miss. Parrott & Miss. Youngbloom 

Happy Monday everyone!  Welcome back, we hope everyone had fun this weekend!

In Walnut today we added grass and bugs into the dry sensory table.  We also added a piano, speaker and water to make sound waves so the children could see what the sound waves looked like.

In Oak today we added a lot of new materials.  Sponge paint was added, colored shaving cream was added, silly putty was moved to the light table and we moved some of the tables and materials around for the children.

In Maple today we added saws for the children to saw wood.  They also built structures on the risers with wooden blocks and animals.

In Pine the children worked on camping and playing in the baby area.

The children also painted and built bird houses in the kitchen, and outside worked on breaking the ice over the sand box!

Reminder: Next Tuesday is our field trip, don't forget to sign up for a lunch if you plan on coming with your child!







-Ms. Smith & Ms. Bartek

Thursday March 14, 2013

Happy Thursday!

It was a very fun-filled day today!

In the Indoor Movement room in the children spent time working on their bowling skills.

"I knocked down two pins!" -Au'Mari'a A.

In the Pine, many children took turns playing with board games such as Candyland. 

"I rolled a six. 1,2,3,4,5,6 spot! I landed on a blue spot!" Jacob

The baby area and the camp set up has been a big hit for the children where they pretend to make food on the grill and even bringing their babies along their camping trips.

In the Walnut, the marble track building was a very hot activity.

Children were busy working with the silly putty and doing some marble painting in the Oak room. Some were even making shaker treats for their dogs. A group of children also went outside with Mrs. Bristley to do a special project involving pour painting on a structure.

The hallway was filled with children actively exploring the musical instruments.

We hope everyone has a great weekend!

    ~Ms.Goodman and Ms.Owens 

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Happy Wednesday!!

It was a busy day today!

Outside, we had a fresh blanket of snow and the children were rolling the tires down the bridge!

The Indoor Movement Room had a parachute and the children were pretending to make popcorn!

In the Walnut Room children were working with tools to break the ice to find treasures inside!

The Oak Room had jewelry making and some floor clay squishing. 

The Maple Room was filled with train tracks and lego designs, as well as wooden car driving!

Lastly, in the Pine Room, the camp ground and babies were very popular again today.

Ms. Hayes and Ms. Schmunk

Happy Tuesday March 12

Hello families,

Today was a very busy day all over the school.  In the kitchen, some children helped make fruit and yogurt parfaits.  Basketball was played in the indoor movement room.  Also in the indoor movement room after lunch, Pod A put on a concert singing "I Want Candy" by Aaron Carter.

Chipping away at the frozen treasures was the most popular in the Walnut room today.  The children used chizzles and hammers to break away the ice and reach the frozen goodies inside.  The children also enjoyed watching the train go by from the window.    

 

A lot was happening in the Oak room.  Children continued to explore the silly putty, rolling it in their hands to feel the texture and cutting it with knives.  Children also had a strong interest in the purple-colored bubbles at the light table.  They felt it with their hands and practiced blowing bubbles with straws.

The Pine room was jam packed with action.  The new camping ground and store is a big hit.  The children had a lot of fun filling the backpacks and shopping bags with all sorts of items from the store to take camping.  There was also a lot of play in the nursery.  Babies were fed lunch, weighed, bathed, and put to bed.

Have a wonderful day,

Ms. Baer and Ms. Tierney 

March 11, 2013

Happy Monday everyone!

In the Oak room, the kids were playing with blubber and marble painting.

In the Maple room, they were building more train tracks and lego cars.

In the Walnut room, the kids had fun chipping away at the ice to get the treasures inside.

In the Pine room, the kids played in the campground and the camp store. They also had fun playing with the babies and riding in planes.

-Ms. Rasmussen & Ms. Kowalski