Pod B: Last Day of the Semester!

Today was our last day of the semester and we went out with a bang!  It was beautiful sunny day, which made it fun to run and play outside.  A few students had fun decorating the cake for our Family Night Celebration this morning and got to do some potting of morning glories, pumpkins, and hubbard's squash this afternoon.  Hopefully, those freshly planted seeds will see some growth by the time the children come back in January!

As usual, construction was busy today.  There imaginative play with the animals as well as the creative construction of train tracks.

It's been great getting to know your children during the semester.  This has been a great experience for us to grow and learn along with the children.  We will miss seeing them every week and we are sad we won't be here next semester to see them grow.  We wish you all the best and hope that the rest of their year here brings new and fruitful experiences.

Thanks for giving us the opportunity to grow with your children these past few months.
Have a wonderful break!

Alexandra Betker
Emily Fischer
Tiffany Roemer
Nicole Schipper

Pod A: Pretend and Large Group P.M.

Today was the last Wednesday for this semester!

Today in pretend the children were acting like animals. They were pretending that they were cats and dogs and were crawling around the classroom. As the children were pretending that they were animals they would make the animal noises that they were. Most of the children were dogs so they were crawling around and barking just like the animal.

Today during large group P.M. all  the children were in the oak classroom and had a special guest Ms. Roemer from Pod B. Ms. Roemer played a guitar and sang songs to the students. When she first started she showed the students the guitar and how to play it. After that she sang a couple songs to the children as she played her guitar. The last song she sang a song and had the children get up and dace to the music.

I would like to thank everybody for a great semester of student teaching! I am honored that I got to student teach in Pod A and to get to know you and your children. Thanks for making it a great semester!

-Ms. Schulkins

Sad to see you go, POD B.

Today was PaJaMa DaY and the last Wednesday of the semester! The children got to enjoy showing off their pajama's with different prints and patterns! 

Not much changed in the classroom this week, as children were still excited in exploring the areas from last week.

As an expansion of the trivets and pinch pots, the children were able to apply colored modge podge to ensure that their accessories stay. They also enjoyed a change of finger paint from the hair gel at the light table.

We would like to thank you all for the opportunity to work with you and your children. This has been a great experience for us and we hope you feel the same. Tomorrow is CDLL T-shirt day and Family Fun Night! We hope to see you all there for our final goodbyes!

Thanks for a great semester,

Ms. Jenkins

Mrs. Browning

Ms. Slater

Silly Day in Pod A

Today in Pod A it was silly day and many of the children participated. Some wore shorts on their head and others wore them outside their pants. There were some silly hats and some silly hair do's. The children enjoyed many activities expetially playing in the hallway. Some of the activities included listening to books on tape, typeing and painting on the computer, working with the letters on the light table, and making music to add to a band. The children found fun and creative ideas to come up with neat way to show their sillies off!
Mrs. Szumila.

Jordyn and Summer listen to a silly book on tape.



Carson H., Alex, and Caleb played many silly songs and danced some funny dances.

Alexis painted a silly castle to show her silly side.

Oliver painted a silly bird with many colors.

Kyla made up silly words with many letters.

Silly Day in Pod B

This week at school we have themed days.  Today was silly day at the lab. Children wore funny hats, shirts, different colored socks and some even had silly hair.  Today the children got a pleasant surprise from Miss Roemer.  She brought her guitar to school and played the children some songs that they could sing along and dance to. 

The children listen to Miss Roemer's songs.

The children get up and dance along to the music.

The children use respectful listening while the teacher reads.

Pod A: Sand Art and Tall Buildings

Today was the last Monday before Winter Break starts for the children and they had lots to do in the classroom. In the construction area there was a lot of building happening on a very tall structure. They built it up really high and then built outwards from it, adding more and more blocks to the inside and outside.

 

 At the texture table the children were making sand art. They make designs on paper with glue and then sprinkle sand on top of the glue. Once they pour the extra sand off the paper they have sand art. This was very popular and fun activity for them today!

Looking forward to the rest of the week!
Ms. Payne

Pod A: Nature Walk and Books

There were lots of activities going on today to end our short week in the classroom.  This morning a small group of kids who were interested in going on a walk went with Ms. Szumila and Ms. Mills around the CMU campus.  On our walk we found pinecones, sculptures, and stopped at a pond.  Before we got to the pond many of them thought we would see fish in the pond but once we got there we found lots of leaves in the water, but no fish.  Pierce saw that many of the tree had no leaves, so we thought of reasons why.  He said "It's Thanksgiving, that's why they don't have leaves."  Rose even pointed out a birds nest in a group of tress for all of us to see.  We even sat at a picnic table to read a book.  After most of us were feeling the cold air we made our way back to the CDLL.



Group picture showing the pinecones we found.




Walking around around the campus.



This week we added drawing into our books about ourself.  Today's question asked what does it mean to be a friend.  Each child was able to draw what they thought it ment to be a friend or what they do with their friends.



Jaedon and Kyla working on their pictures.



Kyassie and Alex looking at Gabby's
picture of what it means to be a friend.



Enjoy the long weekend!!!

-Ms. Szumila