Dear families, Happy New Year! ~T/Th Fine Arts & Science
December was a busy, fun heart-warming month.
During this time, the children had worked passionately and joyfully on their families’ lovely cards and gifts to take home before the holidays.
And why not, inside the class too…
Jocelyn: “ hey, the pain feels cold like a rainy day”
Latest Explorations
This week our children’s explorations were about birds and cats, as we call it, but no any cats, lions and tigers. Both interests have begun spontaneously with the children’s conversation and play!
We have been exploring about nests and different kind of birds. About their natural habitat, what they ear and the sounds they make. To extend this exploration, we offer the children Plasticine, some tools and other materials to create their own birds and their nests. It was delightful to observe the children’s creativity and competence as they got familiar with the Plasticine and designed their birds in the way and the colors they wanted it to be.
Luckily, today was a sunny and beautiful day to go for a walk and look for some nest. It was not too hard to spot them in the bare trees. We also saw and heard some birds, and found a big broken branch hanging from a tree.
Everett: maybe someone used an ax and cut it down!
As for the lions and tigers, all started with… a scratch on the floor!
Linden: We are looking for scratches from the tiger, we are finding more clues.
Era: look the tiger broke the carpet, naughty tiger.
Linden: he is in the naughty list!
Soon, there was a big group of children looking for “clues” and scratches on the floor. (made by furniture, no tiger had been in this room!)
We are excited to see where these explorations are going to take us!
Until next time,
Silvia
During this time, the children had worked passionately and joyfully on their families’ lovely cards and gifts to take home before the holidays.
We explored about family celebrations, traditions and discussed about sharing and giving to others… and of course, Santa Claus and his gifts were not absented during the children’s conversations and play. These conversations at circle time and during fee play, support children’s learning and exploration about our different cultural backgrounds and, how we are all different but we share something in common, such as the care and love we have for our families, the value of our traditions, and our sense of community, even though our believes and the way we celebrate the holidays might be different.
Welcome back!
December was also fun; we had a pajamas and pizza party! We loved seen almost every one wearing their cozy and cute pajamas and the children prepared their own English muffin pizzas …. They were so delicious; it was “so hard to have only one!”
Welcome back!
After a well-deserved and enjoyable break with our families, we are back with fresh and full of energy mind and body!
Winter have been in our play and conversations for the last few weeks, and the children had been closely looking for sings of a very await snowfall that haven’t arrive yet. However, we enjoy finding and exploring the cold and frost in our surroundings.
And why not, inside the class too…
Jocelyn: “ hey, the pain feels cold like a rainy day”
Latest Explorations
This week our children’s explorations were about birds and cats, as we call it, but no any cats, lions and tigers. Both interests have begun spontaneously with the children’s conversation and play!
We have been exploring about nests and different kind of birds. About their natural habitat, what they ear and the sounds they make. To extend this exploration, we offer the children Plasticine, some tools and other materials to create their own birds and their nests. It was delightful to observe the children’s creativity and competence as they got familiar with the Plasticine and designed their birds in the way and the colors they wanted it to be.
Luckily, today was a sunny and beautiful day to go for a walk and look for some nest. It was not too hard to spot them in the bare trees. We also saw and heard some birds, and found a big broken branch hanging from a tree.
Everett: maybe someone used an ax and cut it down!
As for the lions and tigers, all started with… a scratch on the floor!
Linden: We are looking for scratches from the tiger, we are finding more clues.
Era: look the tiger broke the carpet, naughty tiger.
Linden: he is in the naughty list!
Soon, there was a big group of children looking for “clues” and scratches on the floor. (made by furniture, no tiger had been in this room!)
We are excited to see where these explorations are going to take us!
Until next time,
Silvia
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