Tuesday, March 27th Pod B

Hello Everyone!

We had a lot of different things going on within the room throughout the entire day. We are going on a field trip next Tuesday to the rain forest exhibit on campus, so we have been incorporating rain forest habitats, animals, and books throughout the room and during group meeting. As always the pretend area and construction area were very popular. The children love playing house, going on trips, playing in the doctors office, and doing each others hair at the hair salon in pretend. In construction there was a lot of building and using their imagination as they construction. We were able to go outside twice today. Outside the children have been able to run around, hammer wood pieces, read, ride bikes, and complete art projects. Overall we had a great day in Pod B! I hope everyone has a great week and see you next week!

Miss. Brady

Aryn and Daysha are playing with the rain forest habitat that was created for the student.

Levi and Kelly are busy tracing and writing at the writing center.

Science and Technology Objective 25: Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things

March 27th POD A

Hello Everyone!

Today was a lot of fun in the CDLL! The children are continuing to have a lot of fun in the new "teacher center" in the pretend area. They have been enjoying being the teacher and running their own large group! We also have a new area in the art center, where the children can paint wooden beads and that has been popular today.  Even though the weather isn't as gorgeous as last week, we still manage to have lots of fun outside.  The Art Cart is out now, so the children have the opportunity to play at centers outside, this week we introduced fly swatter painting. Unfortunately, today was Mrs. McGee's last day! We will miss her weekly nutrition lessons, but hopefully she enjoys the nice apron and bag the children signed for her!

Have a nice long weekend everyone! See you Monday!

-Ms. Tabeek

Outside, Sam and Caleb play some soccer!

During group in Oak at the end of the day we played Disco Limbo!

Kyassie paining the wooden beads in the art center.

Teaching Strategies Gold: Physical 6 -demonstrates gross motor manipulative skills. The Arts 33 - explores the visual arts. Cognitive 11 - Demonstrates positive approaches to learning.

3-26-12 Pod A

Today the children got a special treat in the morning! The Music Education students came and taught the children a song about spring! They sang the song and got to hold up spring props during the song, it was a lot of fun!

                                             Pod A listening to the music education students

The children continued to experiement with the vinegar and baking soda experiment in the texture table.
New to the discovery center was the weight scale. Children experimented with different items to figure out which ones weighed more and how to level the scale.

                                            Jaedon experimenting with the scale.

New to the pretend area was a teaching center! There is now a white board, a felt board, a teacher chair, books and other items to help the children act out their own classroom!

Today was a great day in pod A. Children were full of energy and fun! Have a great few days off this week and I'll see you all Monday!

~Miss Willmer

T.S. Gold~ The Arts #35 Explores Dance and Movement Concepts, Science and Technology #24 Uses Scientific Inquiry skills, Science and Technology #26 Demonstrates Knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials, Cognitive #12 Remembers and Connects Experiences.

Monday Pod B

What a surprisingly chilly day! We had some music students come this morning and sing with us at group.  Some of us sung about a pony and some of us sang about a circus. We started sponge painting, added a wheelchair to pretend and got a new rain forest habitat in Discovery. Today was Mrs. McGee's last day with us and we talked some more about fruit and friendships. We all signed either an apron or a bag as a thank you for teaching us all about food and health.

Haily Fabish

Arts 34
Science and Technology 25

Signing a bag for Mrs. McGee

Wed. Pod B

Today we had a very hot and exciting day! During afternoon large group as a pod we went outside a played with the parachute. We played popcorn and red rover. We had a lot of new construction going on in the construction area! During outside time this morning we were able to use different art objects!

Have a great weekend!
Alura Nash

The whole pod getting eaten by a boa constructor 

The boa constrictor is up to our toe!

Gross Motor Manipulative.

3/20/12 POD A

Hello Friends and Families!

Today was another fun and beautiful day!

In the morning a group of children got to go to a daycare center to learn to care for babies. The other group of children were able to listen in on a story about nutrition from our special guest Darcy from the Native American tribe.

Darcy reading a story to Pod A

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Children are still continuing to work on sponge painting at the art studio as well as bubber at the texture table.

In the Walnut room we have confetti in the sand table for the children to explore with another texture as well as volcano's in the wet sensory table for the children to experiment with. 


Mrs. McGee also came in today to talk to us more about nutrition and the food pyramid. The children made faces out of bread, peanut butter, bananas, apples, and raisins.

Remington, Pierce, and Jordyn all spreading peanut butter on their bread

 The face that Jordyn made

It was another really hot day today so we were able to go outside two times again! The children seemed to have a lot more energy now that the weather is getting nicer outside.

Ms. Camilletti

TS Gold
Physical- Objective 7 uses fingers and hands
Literacy- Objective 18 interacts during reading and book conversations

Hello Families and Friends,

Today we had a few different things going on, a few children went to a daycare center to play with young children. While the others had a visit from Darcy our Native American friend she read them a story about nutrition.  In discovery today we had a few new activities that the children could touch and explore. With the gel crystals the children could feel them and enjoy what it felt like on their hands some said it was wet others said it was squishy. The other item in discovery was the bird seed which the children could put through large funnels and catch them at the bottom.  Each child got the time to explore and explain what they like about each.

Gold Strategies: Science and Technology 26, Demonstrates knowledge of physical properties of objects and materials


Nadia Crescentini