Today's 🌟Calhoun Class Connection🌟is Mrs. Chong's class. Their students are exploring how planes fly by learning how air and wind move objects. After creating their own airplanes, they’re excited to test them and see what they discover through hands-on, student-led exploration.

Push and Pull Basket Races!!! 🧺🎖️ putting our new knowledge of force into MOTION 🫷🏼🫷🏼🫷🏼

A virtual field trip to #Disney. #Magical moments, immersive #simulations, & big #imagination for little learners. #PreK students #learning through #play, #exploration, & #experience- because wonder is the best teacher. #calhounconnects #math #elar #letters #SEL #earlychildhood

Today's 🌟Calhoun Class Connection🌟is Mrs. Ceron's class. They collaborated during our transportation unit by using their imaginations in dramatic play. They worked together to sort transportation vehicles and created data charts showing their favorite ways to travel.

Aloha! 🌺 Our Travel Day took us all the way to Hawaii! 🌴 The kids made grass skirts, practiced hula dancing, hula-hooped, grabbed a snack on the ship and enjoyed reading on the “beach”! 💃📚🌴 #calhounconnects

Transportation Experience Day was a BLAST!! ❤️🐭🏰✨ We spent all week preparing for our trip to travel to Disney World to wrap up our unit about transportation!! 🗺️ ✈️🌍

Some more pics because it was the BEST!! 🙌🏼👏🏼

We wrapped up our transportation unit with an experience day filled with two trips. From the plane ride, to our arrival destination in Mexico where we made maracas , danced , colored and hit a piñata, it was a day filled with fun and smiles!

Transportation experience day continued for trip #1 we got to take a bus to the water park. Thank you tiny turtles for letting us join y’all on this trip!

What an AMAZING week of learning at Calhoun Early Childhood School! Minds were growing, creativity was flowing, and fun was had all around! 🥰

Last week we read Don’t Push, Penny! 🐧📖 and WOW—my students’ predictions were amazing! After the story, we became authors & illustrators, adding our own page to the book. Learning, teamwork & imagination made it SO fun! 💙✨ #calhounconnects

Today's 🌟Calhoun Class Connection🌟is Mrs. Diemer's class. They have been learning about Transportation and winter! As a class, they collaborated and made snow! They have used their knowledge of travel and transportation to plan a virtual trip to Disney! #CalhounConnects

At this age, subitizing is a BIG deal! We practiced using nonverbal cues when we were ready to share, showing our numbers and subitizing….recognizing numbers fast! Getting our bodies moving helps to retain information as well! #prek

#Reading isn’t passive! It’s #interactive. Our #expressions model #comprehension. #Questions spark #thinking. Group discussion builds #language. When children lean in, #literacy comes alive. Invite every voice. #fairytales #Goldlilocks #prek #prekliteracy #calhounconnects #read

Today's 🌟Calhoun Class Connection🌟is Ms. Dodson's class. They spread the love while turning candy hearts into math magic! By sorting, graphing, counting, and recording data, they strengthened number sense and fine-motor skills to collaborate and compare graphs with friends.

So grateful to the amazing students from Rock Hill for coming to read and truly engage with our Calhoun Early Childhood School scholars! 📚 Thank you for pouring into our students and helping create a day full of connections and smiles! ❤️ #CalhounConnects

Using the strategy, Going to the Movies, we turned our book study into a full cinematic experience complete with deep discussions and yes… movie snacks! 🍿 When learning is intentional, interactive, and a little creative, engagement naturally follows. 🎬🎥 #CalhounConnects

Huge thank you to Stefan, our amazing science curriculum coordinator, for taking the time to collaborate with our teachers to unpack the science standards. Planning purposeful, effective lessons ensures our students receive high quality instruction everyday. 🔬Calhoun Early Childhood School

It must be data protocol day!!! We love a theme to make our team collaboration even more fun 🐻🏕️🌲🌌 Zakeia Kennedy, M.Ed.

Camp Calhoun: Data Day in Action! Today we gathered around the “campfire” for our Data Protocol. Shoutout to Calhoun Early Childhood School’s teachers who collaborate and create meaningful learning experiences. Because of you, our students aren’t just learning, they’re achieving at high levels!