Week 16 Update and Pictures December 4 to 8

I am proud of our children for rallying—I can tell they are exhausted, but still so incredibly enthusiastic about learning and in amazing and joyful moods! Many of the students have been wanting to sing and make ornaments, as well as design a class tree (right outside our hub right now) and the whole place seems to be covered in sparkles!  There is also a very strong interest in letters and names of people and places, so that was explored in great detail. We also had two middle school students come and talk to us about community,

I am attaching documentation for a “city” project below, as well as one that we put up near our “nature table.” The students went for a nature walk and then explored how light and materials (specifically nature) interact. Some students wanted to document learning, so there are a few of the pictures that are taken by students themselves. We will be doing more of this as the weeks go on, now that our students are getting so responsible and are very capable in taking care of technology.

Please click on the links below to see documentation on our “City” project and the beginning of interactions between light and nature.

Our City: The Places We Know

“Liture” The Way Light Plays with Nature

A couple of things:

1)     Please let me know if you would like to take Mango and Oreo Cookie over the 3 week winter break. J

2)    Also please let me know if you are leaving before Thursday, December 21^st (The last day before the winter break) if you haven’t yet.

3)    Please let me know if you have any songs or books that you would like to share about any of the holidays that are happening around this time. Many of the sing-a-long songs are Christmas songs, but we can include any that you would like for that day!  Just let me know as soon as possible. We want to make sure to celebrate all of the holidays that our part of our class family!

REMINDERS

*Please return the BLUE BAG and RED LIBRARY BAG

*Wednesday, December 20^th: Class Holiday Party 8:00am-9:10am-The students would love to do some holiday singing with you before our wonderful room parents take over for the rest of the party. (Similar to Halloween.) We thought we could sing from about 8 to 8:10 and then jump into our holiday party.

*December 22^nd to January 14^th: NO SCHOOL-WINTER BREAK

*January 15^th: First Day Back at school-normal start time

Week 16 Dec 4 to 8

80 new photos · Album by Lynsey Howitt