Community Building Continues

Friends help me to empty the sand table and refill it with cooking gear during morning free choice.  We bake cookies, cakes, pies and muffins...what a fun way to sneak in some great math work (counting, measuring, sorting, etc.).  

Happiest of birthdays to Lorelei and Sawyer (both September 8th :)...welcome to the FIVE club, friends!

To continue with our classroom community building, we read Zero and One by Kathryn Otoshi.  These books have very powerful messages that children naturally gravitate to and understand quite profoundly.  If you haven't checked them out, you may want to!

Thursday Thinking and Friday Fun!

Look at all of those numbers!  Way to go, Lexi!

Clara makes her Dad a birthday card and writes "Happy Birthday, Daddy!" on it.  Excellent work! And so thoughtful :)

Our classroom bucket is overflowing with some wonderful kind words and actions!  Check it out the next time that you're in the classroom...and ask your child what they contributed! 

TRAIN!!!!!!!

Sawyer, Emily, Raylan and Ernest make a basketball hoop during afternoon recess and play a rousing game of pass and shoot.  So fun!

Who doesn't love to paint with their hands?!?!?!  We love getting messy...and creative!

Friends work with the gears to make a working machine...such engineers! 

Rainy Day Kids!

After a round of thunderstorms this morning, we had a blast playing in AND out of the rain during recess.  A little rain never stops us!

Raylan comes to us during recess unable to reach his water bottle due to a big puddle right in front of our crate.  We encourage him to think about a solution to his problem.  Raylan's awesome problem solving skills and flexible thinking lead him to this solution.  Well done, Raylan!  This is real life problem solving that is so critical for our kiddos to learn and to practice! 

We were busy bees during that thunderstorm this morning!

We continue to work on our "Bucket Filling" unit with another great read aloud.  

How Full is Your Bucket? For Kids by Mary Reckmeyer and Tom Rath is another wonderful book that reinforces the idea that our words and actions have an impact on others.  

Before rest time, we gather once again and read The Wind Blew because ya know, the wind blew!

We noticed a lot of rhyming words in this one...ask your child if they can think of some words that may rhyme.  Such a great introduction to early literacy skills :)