It’s been a great week of 3B friends showing teachers and friends all kinds of fun treasures from their homes. These include new items for cooking, all sorts of amazing toys, and so many great art projects. We love when the children show us these things, as they are a way for us get to know each of the 3B friends a little better each day as we navigate our new digital world together.

This week, we engaged in a number of activities that garnered excitement from our young learners. We had a blast as we worked on cognitive and recollection skills, as well as motor skills and creativity, through the animal game in which the teachers and children took turns providing clues about an animal we’d thought of while the others guessed. The friends came up with many great clues showing their comprehension of the activity. Additionally, the children guessed every single animal that they were provided clues for. Way to go 3B!

The scavenger hunt was a way to work on numeral recognition and counting, while also providing the children a chance to share personal items from home. Again, the class did so well at this activity as they excitedly called out the numerals on the cards, helped count dots, and brought the correct number of items count with the rest of us, such as “five books”.

In the afternoons, we had a blast building structures out simple “blocks” made of paper. These came out to be squares, triangles, circles, and rectangles from the side view. The children engaged in teamwork while building the “blocks” and then created some wonderful structures with their paper building materials.

We also made Fluffy Cloud Putty out of conditioner, cornstarch, and food coloring. The children were very excited about how soft and light the putty was. It was very similar to play-dough, and also very different. Please, come join us in the afternoons if you are free. Even if your child simply wants to hang out.

Updates:

-       We are going to explore smaller groups for Morning Meetings next week to see how they work when we can give a little more attention to each friend. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HtfcIKQz6kcTgIWxy5pAsLYKEGDRQY3qrYpjxdTa_js/edit?usp=sharing

-       Meeting of Grownups – Without being able to see and speak to the special grownups of 3B much, Debbie and I would like to touch base, if you care to, to see how things are going on your end and discuss virtual 3B a bit. This will be on Monday or Wednesday at 8 p.m. and will be relaxed and brief. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BqtsZVP1CVeETsmoN2HsLNAs4MhojxaoR-p6dcyFCeE/edit?usp=sharing

-       In consideration of Passover and Good Friday, we will not meet Thursday and Friday next week. We will still be posting daily activities to occupy the 3B friends if you’d like to use them.

 

Have a great weekend!