Progress in the Present AND Going Back in Time

It's been full steam ahead with learning as you will see in the pictures below.  This week the children challenged themselves with sight word recognition through a bingo game (not pictured), a reading lesson on "re-read" power, a Memory card game, and independent work on white boards- "words I know vs. words I'm working on".

It's also been a magical week of "time travel" taking us back to farm life in the 19th century.  Our guiding story for this unit is Donald Hall's The Ox Cart Man and as one way of bringing the story to life, we've added a pretend area with old fashioned props to our room. 

We've also been learning to weave on cardboard looms.  First, we enlisted our big buddies to help us get started and Mrs. Freeman showed us some of her handiwork on a similar wooden loom.  But once the children got started many of them were unstoppable!  Weaving has become a new pastime at both Quiet Time and Explore.