Working in the Garden

Happy Monday!

Today the children got to play outside in the morning. While outside some of the children helped plant the gardens out on the playground. They started out planting Marigolds in a few of them beds and the different planters around the playground.

After they got the Marigolds planted they moved to the vegetable garden and started planting seeds. They planted pumpkins, zucchini, green beans, and corn. The children had fun exploring what the different seeds looked like. They also liked coming up with ideas for how they could use the different vegetables. Be it to explore or to use in the cooking classes in the kitchen.

We all enjoyed our enhancing our outdoor experience at school.

TS Gold Objectives

Science and Technology #28

Children use tools or other technology to complete tasks

Sarah Emeigh

Ready, Set, Hop!

Today students enjoyed moving their bodies outside. One of the ways they moved was by playing hopscotch. A hopscotch path was drawn on the cement with chalk. Students made their way along the hopscotch layout and went back again for another turn. The hopscotch event ended quickly when the rain came rushing down and we had to make our way indoors. 

Oliver said, "Is that hopscotch?"

Madison said, "I wanna do it again."

                        Teaching Strategies: Physical #4 Demonstrates Traveling Skills

                                                               Ms. O'Brien

Field Trip!

The special Olympics are here at CMU this week. Today we took a walk over to check out what events were happening. There were a verity of events going on such as bocce ball, shot put, volleyball, and track. The children enjoyed watching the shot put event and were cheering on the athletes

After the events were over everyone walked back to school.  We had lunch then stayed outside for the rest of the day!

Teaching Strategies #3 Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
Teaching Strategies #31 Explores change related to familiar people or places

-Ms. Knight and Ms. Stack

What's in nature?

Today the mail group went on a walk through CMU’s campus. The children have been spending a lot of time outside and have been very interested in what was in nature around our school. The group decided to spend the time during small groups to see what kind of nature CMU had around it. While on the walk the children found a variety of things such as a birds nest in the tree outside the education building, worms, spiders and lots of bugs.  The children enjoyed finding all the different kind of bugs that were around our school.

 

Teaching Strategy #27- Demonstrates knowledge of Earth's environment. 

-Ms. Stack 

Getting ready to Garden!

Today was a sunny day and a great day for the CDLL children to start working in the garden beds to get them ready for seeding. There are many vegetables the children and teachers are going to plant this summer! The children used shovels and rakes to get all the weeds out of the beds and to move the soil around. Some of the children's jobs were to empty the wheel barrows when they were full in our decompose area and some were to pick the weeds. We had lots of helpers to prep the soil for gardening. The children enjoyed lending a helping handworking  while picking the weeds and moving the soil around!

Noah said "I'm ready to work!" Than said to his friends, "Hey, you want some help there?"

Kynzi said, "This is how a Gardner does it."

"I just pulled it right out."

"I found a worm,"

said Liam

"I got a big root," said Prosper

Teaching Strategies:

#27- Demonstrates knowledge of Earth's environment

Ms. Nichols

Veits Woods!

Today the nature group took a walk to Veits woods. They have been planning on what they wanted to do while in the woods and the list included a variety of games, exploring, finding frogs and other bugs and climbing trees. The walk took about 45 minutes and we had a few breaks along the way. The children loved it when we reached the woods and had fun exploring and discovering the new place.

They found a tree with writing on it and were very intrigued to know what it said and all had different ideas about who wrote on it. They found bugs and some of the children were able to identify what kind of bugs they were. 

Teaching Strategy #27- Demonstrates knowledge of Earth's environment. 

-Ms. Knight 

Let's Play Kickball!

It was such a lovely day today with the weather!  We took advantage of it by playing a big game of kickball.  In the afternoon we set up the kickball field in the zen garden out front of the CDLL.  All of the children that played were the kickers trying to get on the bases and make runs.  We had a couple teachers that played as the outfielders and even some of the parents joined in at times when they came to pick up their children.

Everyone had a lot of fun kicking the ball and running away trying not to get tagged by the teachers.  Towards the end we even had some of the children that wanted to help the teachers in the outfield.

Teaching Strategy: Physical #6 Demonstrates gross motor skills

Nicole Mulvihill