Celebrate Good Times- Come On!

 We reached our 100 Apple Core Goal and celebrated with a "extra special toy time"!  Out came some bins the children hadn't seen before- legos...more train tracks...gears...and the marble track!  Hooray for using Core Values!

The fun didn't stop there!  Wednesday was the 100th Day of school complete with homemade headbands and necklaces, pajamas, a little groundhog fun, and more toy time.

And while we're at it let's celebrate World Read Aloud (day) and "I Love To Read Month" with families joining over video to read to us.

What a fun start to February!

Keeping Warm and Staying Healthy

The last week in January brought some VERY cold temps which drove our recess inside.  As many of you know, we love moving along with Jamie from Cosmic Kids Yoga!  Here's a look at us doing some "Frozen Yoga"- that's right themed along the lines of Anna, Elsa and Olaf!

The end of January also brought us another installment of Farm to School.  This time around we made a slaw with cabbage- full of vitamins and crunchy fresh in winter.  Have a look...

New Year, New Experiences

 Welcome back to the blog for 2022!  This first week back has been challenging on the health front but also SO much fun on the friend front.  The children returned to school happy to see their classmates and ready pick up with learning exactly where we left off. We started the week with a surprise change up in the pretend area- have a look at the children in the Room 28 Grocery Store.

We got down to business learning a new Reading Super Power- Word Part Power.  Here you can see the children writing the words that were formed on their snowman word wheel.  All the word end in an.

 

We ended our week by spending our Flexible Friday block in the woods.  It was hard to resist the chance to be out in the relative sunshine and fresh air for a few fun un-masked minutes.

I'm So Fancy...You Don't Even Know

 Friday we celebrated filling our Apple Core Chart with a "Fancy Day".  What went into this celebration, you might ask?  Well, the fun began from the moment the children arrived with some special decorations and this morning message.

Some children chose to dress up and everyone got into wearing beaded jewels that were handed out in the morning.

Lunch time was super special- we dined by candle light in the classroom, raised cups of apple juice to say "cheers", and danced by a roaring fire on the screen afterward.

The Kidz Bop version of "I'm So Fancy" was a great theme song for the day.

And we're already on our way to our next 100 apple cores!

Story Telling and Engineering

 The children in Room 28 often choose to build during Explore time, but this week we partnered up to build bridges for the Three Billy Goats Gruff during Literacy!  Have a look at the connector straw structure that was built big enough for the children to get inside AND the partner groups re-enacting the old favorite story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Busy Like Bees...who code!

 Last week Ms. Finn led the children in a series of sessions with Bee Bots- programable "robots" that provide an introduction to coding.  Our elementary Tech Integration Specialist, Kristen Courcelle, has created clear grids as well as a double sided mat that has letters on one side and numbers and math symbols on the other.  Over the course of the week partners programed their bees to walk a path that spelled snap words, touched a series of numbers, walked in a planned path, and even drew a picture!  This last task was accomplished with the help of a "bee jacket" that allows it to hold a marker that it pushes and pulls.  Some "techno" looking marker designs probably came home in folders last week.

These sessions were the perfect precursor to the Friday's Library lesson which focused on the annual school event- Hour of Code.

Here are some photos of the children doing a similar activity on chromebooks in the Library.