Happy Holidays!

The week before the break.

More traditions.

Rex: This is me and this is my mommy, and this is my daddy. This is my house. You can go on top of my roof of my house. I have decorations in front of my house. I don’t have any presents under my tree yet. We all went together to get my tree. It was my family and my cousin Gia. We went to that place that has thousands of trees. After we brought it home we decorated it.

William: This is my Christmas tree and this is the star on top and these are the ornaments. Dadda and we decorate the tree with ornaments while Kaden did his homework. I played Christmas music. We are going to Josh and Ben’s house. They are my cousins. They are 14 years old. Just like Kaden, he is 14 too.

Special Gifts from the Pre-K

The kids have worked so hard for the past two weeks working on special gifts for families. They made special footprints, a hand jewelry holder, and a picture frame ornament. They even designed their own wrapping paper. We have a few presents still waiting to be delivered to some families which we will give out in the new year.

Happy Holidays to you all from the Pre-K community!

Super Soccer Stars!

Cooking with Diane:

Making a delicious party mix!

We wish you all a special Holiday and a Happy New Year!

A week full of festivities and traditions!

Our first home fun! Family Traditions.

Kian: Every year my tradition is that the elf comes to NY. His name is Prince Buttercup. He goes on my shelve, on my lamp. The elf right now is on the wall. I also have a advent calendar. I get to open the boxes. I open 1 box every day. I also get to decorate my tree with ornaments.

Angelo: After Christmas I’m going to Brazil. My daddy is going to get New Years dinner for us. I’m excited because I get to wake up in the middle of the night for New Years. My family tradition is we all go to Brazil. My mom, my dad, my sister and aunt. It’s so much fun, we go on a big airplane.

Charlie: We decorate our tree. We hang dogs, letters, lights, and I drew a blueberry on top. My daddy and mommy helped. My brother Johnny and my sister Belle helped too. It was beautiful. I also got presents. I’m going to get new shoes! When I went out with my sister I saw presents there, under the tree. I love it and I was so happy.

Milo: So, I’m going to tell everyone who these people are in this project. okay! So this is uncle Zack, this is aunt Emily, and this is Milo. This is Amanda, you know my nanny. This is a cookie for ie cream. Emily decorates my tree.  That’s my tradition.

Hyebeen: This is my mommy and my daddy, and this is me as a baby. I eat a hamburger and a sandwich, and lemon juice. This is when to Guam and back to Korea. This is also me when I went to Disney Land Tokyo. This is Disney castle. There’s nothing inside, it’s just a castle. This is a blue and gold castle. The princess do dress-up and go on a swing. I see a musical in the hotel. This is me when I go for the first time. It’s so shiny over there. My dad and my mom wear glasses.

Elizabeth: We love to decorate our tree, it’s my favorite thing to do. We have so many ornaments. We always do it together and we listen to Christmas music like Jingle bells. This is my elf and advent calendar. I also have my own Christmas tree. It’s a small one. It has tiny little fairies. MY big tree has an angel at the top.

Holiday workshop and art exploration

The Pre-K children have been working on creating snowflakes for the window display by the front entrance. (Be sure to take a look at our beautiful work) We are also working on some holiday presents for our families! We are so excited to share them with you all.

Specialist

This week during Spanish the children reviewed the weather. They went over the vocabulary (shoes: zapatos, Boots: Botas, Jacket: La chaqueta, etc.). Ernestina explained the lyrics as they acted them out without music. They then followed along to the words in the song as they practiced the new vocabulary with movements.

Cooking with Diane was a fun time. We made a delicious coconut cream and enjoyed it with bananas!

Soccer with Jojo is all about physical activities. We are currently playing in teams and practicing working together, sharing, and supporting one another.

Writing and Illustrating a special holiday story

A collaborative Holiday story by the Pre-K

Possible titles: Ballerina Christmas Story, Jingle Bells, Here Comes Presents, Santa Ho, Ho, Ho. 

Kian: Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl, and they made a snowman. Alexander: When they left it outside the snowman started to move! There was a pigeon under it. Hyebeen: The snowman started to dress up in dresses and suits. Charlie: And then it got color. The pigeon painted the snowman and it turned into a rainbow snowman. Milo: Then the snowman started to disappear! The pigeon started to push it. The snowman started to get farther, and farther, and farther! Angelo: Then when the snowman was getting farther away the snowman was about to fall over! Elizabeth: Meanwhile, the boy and the girl were decorating their tree. They put ornaments. Then they put the last ornaments and it was a twinkle fairy. Graydon: Then the kids go to sleep and the ornaments broke! The kids went to see and they started to cry. Rex: The snowman was about to fall into a frozen puddle that covered the Earth! But before he fell a big explosion happened. Sam: After the snowman falls into the puddle he melts into another Planet. William: The pigeon went away to the other plant. It was (actually) the sun. The sun made them hot so they got out quick. They bumped into a little thing. It opened and they got through it. Josie: It took them through the roof and into the house where the boy and the girl lived. The boy and the girl painted the pigeon and then the pigeon turned into a real ballerina! The end. 

BMS Holiday party!

Exploration of materials, Orange air fresheners, Partner Day, and more!

Materialized Classroom

As you all may know by now we had special visitors this week! Specialists from Teaching Beyond the Square came by to give us the opportunity of exploring and experience the many ways we can repurpose recycled materials.

During the workshop, the children worked with materials/objects from our everyday lives that are often discarded, but could be repurposed or transformed into something new. encouraging creativity, problem solving, and action.  

The children were curious and very engaged. They explored, created, and discussed many observations and past experiences with these materials. It was a very rich learning experience for them all. 

We are currently asking for donations to design a better creation center in our Pre-K classroom.

Spiced Orange Pomander Ball

For our cooking day with Diane the children got to make these amazing natural air fresheners using the oranges you all donated and whole cloves. This was such a fun activities for the children everyone was so interested in the scent and were very focused in making designs. Please be sure to store these in your refrigerator to prevent them from molding. However, another fun tip could be is that if you have more cloves sitting on your seasoning cabinet add some more! Place these on your coffee table in a nice basket, it will make your home smell lovely!

Creating our own shades of paint

On this day we enjoyed the science and an art to mixing colors together to create new and fresh paint colors. Red, yellow, blue, black and white colors can be used to replicate any color or hue in the rainbow. The children got messy and experimented with mixing colors to reveal a variety of different shades which they got to name.

Pre-K partners

This week we spent our morning working in centers with a partner. During our morning meeting we shared some ideas on how we can get to know each other a little better. Some of the children have developed friendships and have spent a lot of time together. We are so happy to see friendships blossoming but we think it’s time to mix things up! We asked the children to share which friends they do not really get to play with a lot and that they would like to get to know better. We were so happy to see that the children responded very well to this and enjoyed their day with a partner.

“Charlie’s favorite color is blue!”

— Graydon

“Me and Kian have four letters in our name!”

— Milo

“Will loves to play in the kitchen like me!”

— Josie

“Rex likes to draw a lot and I like to draw a lot. ”

— Hyebeen

“Alexander likes to play family and I like to play family. I’m the mommy and he’s the puppy. ”

— Elizabeth

Shared snack with Sam, Louisa, Cathy, and Matt!

Shared snack day was so fun! Sam’s family joined and shared a delicious Jam and sun-butter treat with us all. Sam’s dad, Matt, played fun holiday music. He taught us all about harmonicas, shakers, and tambourines. He also took many music request from the children.

Celebrating togetherness and our First Curriculum breakfast of the year!

Karate with sensei BiBi.

Karate has been a really fun time for the Pre-K. Here we practice patience, self-confidence, leadership, and self-discipline. Our sensei Bibi makes this class super fun for the children and they love the many physical activities she plans fo them.

Celebrating Thanksgiving with a Taco Party!

Our fiendsgiving was a such a special day for the kids. We reflected on the things we are thankful for and shared traditions and the food we like to eat. One special request was that we made tacos together as a class. This was a great opportunity for many of them as we are practicing the importance of trying unfamiliar foods. Everyone LOVED the tacos and even had seconds!

Here what they said:

Alex: I’m thankful for giving butterfly kisses to papa and daddy.

Kian: I’m thankful that my mommy gives me hugs.

Hyebeen: I’m thankful for my sparkly crystal necklace.

Charlie: I’m thankful for Milo.

Milo: I’m thankful for everyone in the world.

Angelo: I’m thankful for my mommy, daddy, and my whole family. They give me hugs.

Elizabeth: I’m thankful for butterflies.

Graydon: I’m thankful for my teachers.

Rex: I’m thankful for my cousins Gia, Corey, and Rocco.

Sam: I’m thankful for my mommy, daddy, and sister.

Josie: I’m thankful for giving hugs to my teachers.

Will: I’m thankful for dragons.

Annabel: I’m thankful for tacos!

María: I’m thankful for puppies.

Chocolate Milk: I’m thankful for carrots.

Curriculum Breakfast

Our Me, Myself, and I curriculum celebration was a huge success! The children worked for weeks exploring the concept of the SELF. They sparked their own projects, worked together to design a special display, and were the best tour guides for our beautiful museum.

This project is intended to be ongoing throughout the year as the children will create several portraits using a variety of media at different points. This is to encourage recognitions and reflection of changes in personal appearance. 

It’s beautiful to observe children using mirrors and in sharing observations with each other. Talking about the parts of the face, the features, shapes, size etc. It is a great language exploration during this time.

We are so proud of the Pre-K class! Take some time to see the documentation around the classroom and museum. We will have all of our museum documentation up next week.

Thanks for coming! 

William turns four!

Workshops, Building a Boat, and Illustrating our spooky story!

Halloween Week comes to an end and new projects begin!

This was a very exciting and busy week for the Pre-K. After so much dedication and work in creating our Halloween costumes this month, the Pre-K kids finally got to celebrate one of the most anticipated holidays! Our Ice Cream costumes were a big success and the children were so proud of their creations. In addition to the treats, the children enjoyed their delicious popsicles we made last week! It was a perfect Halloween celebration. We also took our first walk of the year as a class to our local playground, Washington Market Playground. The children did a phenomenal job walking as a group. We enjoyed a beautiful sunny day at the playground running, playing games, and took lots of pictures with colorful leaves we found on the ground.

Graydon’s Workshop

Graydon’s “How to make a mask” workshop was so much fun! He first created a mask for himself that he shared with his friends. Once everyone noticed how fun Graydon’s mask was they quickly requested for Graydon to teach them how to make one for them. Graydon was so proud and happy to teach everyone how to make one. He explained step by step how to recreate his mask. Once his workshop got crowded and everyone began to ask for a mask at the same time Graydon was sure to remind his friends to have “patience”, and that he was so busy. He explained to them that he only had “two hands” and that he could “only help 1 friend at a time”. (Sounds like Graydon has been listening closely to this teachers) Everyone enjoyed Graydon’s workshop so much. We brainstormed ideas for the next workshop.

A boat created by Sam, Rex, and Milo.

Rex: This is our boat.

Sam: We are going to Connecticut to visit my cousin Rachel.

Milo: Yes, we are going to visit Rachel but first we have to call to see if she’s home.

Rex: What is her phone number Sam?

Sam: I think is 335516

Milo: Okay, Hello? Rachel? Sam say hi.

Sam: Hi cousin Rachel!

Milo: Rex you say hi.

Rex: Hi cousin Rachel!

They all laugh.

Milo: We are coming over okay! Bye!

Thursday Funday!

We enjoy our Thursdays in the gym. We also get to join 3B for snacks and centers. We use this time to explore our school community. This week we headed out the playground! While in the playground the children observed the colored changing leaves, silly carved pumpkins and made new friends at the park.

Spooky Story Illustrations

This week we completed our spooky story written by the Pre-K. Everyone illustrated important characters and scenes from our story. These colorful illustrations will be added to their story and printed! We are so excited for you all to see the finish product!

Designers, Birthday Graph and Much More!

Our Costumes are Almost Ready!

Thank you families for coming in and helping us create the most fun and delicious costumes with your kids. Everyone is so excited for our annual Halloween parade next week! We will have a practice parade at the school on Monday!

Our paper mache heads are coming along!

We spent the week observing and experimenting with our bodies. We began to discuss the best of ourselves and all of the amazing things we do with our bodies. The children have also been sharing their special skills and teaching each other things they are really good at. We are currently working our faces by creating these amazing 3d sculptures of our faces using paper mache.

Birthday Graph!

This week we also created our birthday graph and counted how many people celebrate their birthday on the same month. The children practiced writing their name, the months, their birthdates and so much more. Please stop by to take a look at their hard work.

Magic Potion!

In the spirit of Halloween we began the festivities by making a delicious potion with Ms. Diane. We mixed apple juice, grape juice, and raspberries to create a very special potion. The children called this the “invisible potion”. Everyone was disappearing after drinking the magic potion.

Thursday always brings exciting changes and explorations. We spent the morning practicing taking turns and following directions while learning how to play a new game: connect four. This gives us the opportunity to collaborate and get to know our friends from 3b. We also got to share our thoughts and discuss the many ways we could all be kind and “fill someone’s bucket” everyday. The children really enjoyed reading Have you filled a bucket today? by Carol McCloud.

Shared Snack!

Thank you to Charlie and her family for sharing such a fun snack! Frozen Yogurt! It was delicious!

Halloween Costume Creations, Measurements and More

Costume Sketches and Creations

October has been such an exciting month for the Pre-K. We have been working on our Halloween sketches and have already began to design our ice cream costumes! The children have been carefully cutting out toppings out of paper for their dessert and carefully selecting their materials for their special creations. Everyone is so excited to complete our costumes and prepare for our parade and spooky party celebration.

We are so excited to have our Pre-K families join us during this fun and exciting time!

Measurements

We also took time to share about ourselves and begin our Me, Myself and I project. We began to share things that makes us different. The things we like about ourselves. The things that make us who we are. Everyone took turns selecting their own measuring tools to measure their feet. They had so much to say about the size of their feet and many of them were comparing and discussing the difference in sizes. The children really enjoyed this activity and they are excited to measure more parts of their body.

“My feet are medium because I’m three and quarter.”

— Rex

“I think my feet are twenty 40 beetles big.”

— Josie

“Big like a lady bug, no, like two lady bugs.”

— Alex

“My feet are one butterfly.”

— Hyebeen

“Two triangle blocks.”

— Charlie

“My feet are two spoons big.”

— Aayush

“I think my feet are 24 peanuts big.”

— Sam

“I think my foot is small.”

— Graydon

We bought a pumpkin!

We took a walk to our local market (Morgan’s market) to pick up our class pumpkin. Everyone took turns to look at the pumpkins with their partner and help us decide on a special to take back to school. It was a perfect day to go for a walk and explore our neighborhood.

Spooky Stories and Visitors

This month Pre-K has requested to read spooky stories everyday of the month of Halloween. The children really enjoy story time and getting spooked. This week we had a special reader join us for spooky story time. Josie and her mom, Colleen, read 3 fun, spooky stories while in the 3b classroom. Everyone had a great time reading, singing, and dancing.

We also have a special friend joining Pre-K this week! Luca was in 3b last year and he and his family moved to London this year. Everyone is so excited about Luca’s return to NY, it’s a real treat!

Shared Snack and the letter of the week!

Today Milo and his mom, Lauren, shared a special snack with us all: Eggs and Edamame! Everyone really enjoyed this delicious, gluten-free snack! Thank you!!

Halloween Costume, Science, Paint, and more!

This was a short but fun and busy week at Pre-K. We began to work on our self-portrait paper mache creations. During our discussions we like to talk about feelings, uniqueness, and the things we are proud of about ourselves. We also talk about the many faces we make and we are all different. We are so excited to see how the children will display their emotions through this art medium. We also experimented with liquids and solids. The kids first drew shapes on paper and then carefully traced the line over with baking soda. We mixed food coloring and vinegar together then observed the reaction when mixing the solid and liquid together. Resulting in the most amazing bubbly art creation.

The Self

The children are exploring emotions and facial expressions in both Spanish and English. For this fun activity we are creating three dimensional self portraits using paper mache!

Halloween Costume Ideas and Final Vote!

As we mentioned last week, we introduced the concept of voting in the Pre-K class. We all had a turn suggesting what our theme will be. The three final categories where Jobs, Animals and Ice Cream. We tallied the votes and together counted the final number of votes. Ice Cream was the highest with 8 votes. So for this year we will all be making our own ice cream costumes. Ideas and materials all welcomed. If you would like to come in the class and help us please contact us so we can also arrange that, the kids love special visitors.

Apple Picking!

Although the weather was not primal, we had a terrific time apple picking on Thursday. The kids enjoyed learning about how pumpkins grow, how squash and pumpkins are in the same family and they loved picking their own apples from the trees.

Milo’s Birthday!

On Friday we celebrated Milo’s birthday. Milo’s mom, Lauren came by and brought everyone muffins and a fruit salad which the kids devoured in seconds. She also brought in two of Milo’s favorite books and read them to the class. They really enjoyed celebrating Milo’s birthday by making birthday cards and giving him lots of hugs. Thank you to the Rosenfeld for making us part of Milo’s 4th birthday celebration!

Shared Snacks!

On Friday it was Kian’s turn to bring shared snacks. He got letter D and he got creative! We enjoyed 2 special stories and a delicious, gluten-free “Dirt” dessert with worms! Thank you to the Callahan family for today’s fun shared snack!

Emotions, Kandinsky and Specialists

Emotions

This was a big week for Pre-K! We are talking and understanding emotions. We started working on our own emotions, what are feelings and how do we manage them. Each child shared a feeling, what makes them feel that way and what should you do when you are feeling them.

Sad

Happy

Scared

Frustrated

Tired

Confused

Hyebeen: “I feel sad when I miss mommy.”

Angelo: “I am happy when my friends listen to me.”

Alexander: “I feel mad when people knock down my structure.”

Charlie: “I feel tired after my mommy and daddy give me a rub.”

Graydon: “I feel frustrated when someone is not listening.”

Aayush: “I feel confused when friends don’t listen.”

Milo: “I feel mad when someone breaks something.”

Alexander: “Monsters scare me.”

Rex: “Monsters, sharks, spiky fish,,, and spiky cactus scare me.”

Graydon: “Bees scare me.”

Specialists

It’s October! Which means our specialists have started to visit us. The kids were very excited to make an apple orange salad with a lemon dressing with Diane. While making the salad we observed each ingredient. We discussed where they came from. Apples come from trees, Oranges come from trees and Lemons come from trees. We did some observational drawing with the cut fruit as-well.

We also got a visit from Jojo. The kids love soccer, they practiced running while kicking the ball. They all scored goals and played a game of run and freeze where you scored points if you had the most free space around you.

We also got visits from Ms. Ernestina for Spanish, Karate, and on Thursday we had Yoga with Jennifer.

Kandinsky

Art masterpieces are an incredible source of learning opportunities. Through studying and discussing art children learn to pay attention to small details, colors, use of space, shapes, and creativity. This week we noticed a big interest in the use of scissors and drawing shapes. The children then became invested in drawing circles in different sizes. Many of them even expanded their shape interest in the clay center. They created round geometrical object in three-dimensional space which they call “balls”. We think this is a perfect opportunity to take a look at some of Wassily Kandinsky’s famous work. We are so excited to see the journey our “cutting circles project” will take us.

Halloween

It’s every kids favorite time of the year!

We took this opportunity to introduce the concept of voting by organizing a class vote. We first began by write down everyone’s amazing idea for our class costume. We then encouraged everyone to vote for their favorite idea. We will review the results together as a team next week. We are so excited to finalize our class decision.

Volcanoes and Weather

This week in the Pre-K the children were discussing the rainy weather. That lead the children to discuss about the season changes and especially what happens when it is raining outside.

A conversation about the weather:

Alexander: When you sleep all day the winter will come.

Aayush: It’s raining outside.

Rex: It’s Fall and rainy.

Alexander: When it’s raining the diggers can’t come out because they can slip. Rex: The don’t slip, only we slip.

Kian: Well they can slip.

Aayush: It’s winter that’s why I have my winter shoes.

Elizabeth: It’s not winter, it’s still summer.

Rex: No, it’s Fall! Look outside. The leaves are turning brown, yellow, orange, and red.

Josie: It’s not Fall because when it’s fall it’s snowing and it’s not snowing today.

Rex: It’s not snowing because it snows only in the winter time.

A discussion about volcanoes overheard in the clay center:

Angelo: “They explode lava. Lava hurts you because it’s fire. I think they have volcanoes in Brazil. Actually, I’m not sure. I went to Brazil but I didn’t see any volcanoes. What happens if you make a volcano out of clay and then you put it in the oven?”

Milo: “Maybe it would explode all over the classroom.”

Charlie: “It will blow int he class.”

Milo: “It will be filled”.

Angelo: “It will be filled with lava.”

Milo: “And then the lava would become sand and then you would be trapped and then you will turn into a big lava monster. And then you wont be a little kid anymore. “

Angelo: “But if you put your heart back in you will become normal again.”

Quotes on Chores

Graydon: “Doing your bed, cleaning your room. Doing chores, that’s how you get money.”

Kian: “Clean up the floors if you make a mess, laundry.”

Aayush: “To do something.” “I clean my bedroom when it’s dirty.”

Josie: “I clean up my bedroom with a broom when it’s dusty and stuff.”

Rex: “My Julia does chores, and sometimes I help her. I clean up my plates.”

Charlie: “I help with my mommy, clean up toys.”

Hyebeen: “I clean up my bathroom and my bedding and my table and my chair.”

Alex: “I clean my table and I clean my sofa.”

Elizabeth: “ If you have a pet bird you have to feed it, and also if you have two pets, like two birds you have to feed them two times. If you forget they will go waaaa waaaa waaaa.”

Quotes on Family

Kian: “ I love my whole family so much. We go to my cousins house sometimes.”

Graydon: “When I go to sleep we sing a special song.”

Angelo: “My daddy puts me to bed and prays to santo and rubs my belly.”

Alexander: “I play with my papa and my daddy is working.”

School Wide Area of Research

Every year the school chooses a topic for a school wide research. Our topic for this year is PAINT! We are very excited to implement the topic in our curriculum. So you will see a lot of projects with paint all year long.

On Friday we started exploring painting with leaves and flowers.

Conversation about dinosaurs and meteors overhead at the sensory table.

Alex: “That’s the water.”

Sam: “Wait a second! We need dinosaurs!”

Alex: “There are no dinosaurs here.”

Sam: “But wait a second, we don’t have any crocodiles here!”

Alex: “Meteors crashed the dinosaurs.”

Sam: “Meteors are scary in real life. Asteroids where huge when they crashed the earth. This is dinosaur extinction.”

Rex: “One million, million, million years ago volcanoes exploded because asteroids crashed the earth.”

Sam: “They landed on earth.”

Rex: “ No, it CRUSHED!”

Charlie’s Birthday!

We had a busy week! We also celebrated Charlie’s birthday where she share some delicious fruit cones. They were really delicious, the kids kept asking for more.

So far we have celebrated two birthday’s. The first day of school we were so lucky to celebrate Alexander’s birthday!

Individuality and Family

Sense of Self

Celebrating individuality an uniqueness.

Our first Self-Portraits of the year have decorated our walls. The children are so proud of their work and are continuously working to make their portrait display “beautiful” by adding their name and picture next to their work. These self-portraits provide us with a special glimpse of how the children view themselves in the world. We are so proud of their dedication in becoming more independent and caring for their belongings. One of the amazing things that has developed quickly in our classroom is teamwork. It is our hope to build a community of unique individuals who will learn to soar, succeed, and shine together! What a great start to the year!

Playing family:

Sam, Milo, and Angelo

Sam: I’m a crawling baby and a walking baby.

Angelo: I’m the puppy of the family.

Milo: I’m the dad. I’m walking my puppy. We live in Denmark.

A conversation about FAMILY

Kian: I love my whole family. I love them because they love me and they make me happy. They say nice stuff to me.

Angelo: I have cousins in my family.

Kian: Cousins look like your friends because it’s the same. They’re your friends.

Milo: I’m a cousin to my baby sister.

Elizabeth: No, (laughs), you’re her big brother silly.

Milo: Oh, that’s right. (laughs)

Angelo: I have cousins and I’m a cousin.

Aayush: I have lots of cousins too.

Kian: Cousins are friends because they look like a friend but they are really your cousins because they are not in the same school as you.

Graydon: I think cousins can sometimes be in the same school. I’ve heard of that.

Kian: Really? I’ve never heard of that.

Charlie: My sister is in my school.

Graydon: My sister too!

William: I have a big brother but he goes to big kid school.

First Week of Pre-K: Creating a kind and respectful classroom

This week has been full of classroom explorations. The children have been observing and interacting with the environment in a variety of ways. As the 3rd Pre-K teacher, the environment contributes greatly to the child's sense of comfort, curiosity, confidence and creativity. Pre-K seems particularly interested in how our classroom is organized, where materials "live," how to make our classroom better and why we have meetings. This week we worked together to come up with classroom rules. The children discussed the importance of keeping each other safe, teamwork, sharing, and respecting our bodies. We are quickly learning a lot about the children and their interest. We are so excited to begin working on projects and continue building a community we all feel safe and proud to be part of.

Building a community

First day of Pre-K photos!

BUSY AT WORK!

“WOW! It’s bigger than anything.” (while exploring our nature center, observing our butterflies through a magnifying glass)”

— Josie

“Now i’m going to draw mommies dress.” (while working in our art center)”

— Hyebeen

“I love trains a lot. I love more even longer trains!””

— Sam

“Black and red makes dark red, (adds more black) It’s going to be super dark.” “Red plus red equals red (adds white) and then pink.””

— Rex

“I got it everybody” (when he finally figured how to fix the flashlights)”

— Graydon

“We need to get to work” (while in the dramatic play getting ready for work)”

— Milo

“This is a really hard game you guys.” (while playing the fishing game)”

— Angelo

“Don’t forget to use your walking feet!” (a kind reminder to his friends while walking to the bathroom)”

— Alexander

“It’s raining inside, do you hear that? It’s raining!””

— Santiago

“Oh no! What happened in there? It’s such a mess. -Maria

Maybe Chocolate Milk was trying to play and she just made a mess. -William”

“Josie, what are you making?” -Maria
”Coffee” -Josie
“Who is that coffee for?” -Maria
“I don’t know, maybe, just me.” -Josie”

“I really like coloring, scissoring, and papering”

— Aayush

“I know what we can do! We can make a sign for the cave! (her solution to our crowded cave)”

— Elizabeth

“I am a really good writer” (while helping the teacher write the morning message)”

— Kian