Kicking off some new center jobs this week. Observing and wondering about our hands, creating Diva lamps for the festival of Divali, and rolling , counting and building a staircase using cubes

Today during library we learned about fairytales and folktales!

Thinking and learning about Diwali!

Thinking and writing about our weekends in KWi this morning. Working on adding details to our pictures and our words.

Exploring watercolor paints during centers today.

Thank you to Abby’s mom Allison for being our first guest reader! The kids absolutely loved it !

This week we learned all about flower bulbs life cycle with Ms. Stephanie from the Brookline Recreation department. After a crash course we got to get our hands dirty! Now we wait until the spring 🌷

Doing a picture sort for letter sounds B, M, and S

Today during Spanish we did an experiment, trying to answer how many elephants could be supported by our web. Lots of great estimating and counting

During our Marble celebration we had a visit from my dog Arlo. It seems clear that Arlo is ready for kindergarten!

Yesterday we worked on our hand writing. We introduced lowercase A and G this week. We reviewed all of our hand writing letters and practiced our new.

Tuesday morning we had a virtual visit from Ellery’s father, and more importantly Archie the dog.The class learned about all of the work it takes to raise a puppy, shared stories, and was able to ask Archie questions at the end!

During language arts today we practiced tapping out CVC words and worked on handwriting with a lowercase B, Q, D, S and G

This is a short video explaining how we tap letter sounds out in the foundations program. We are working every day to hear the sounds in words,tap them out, and then blend them together. youtu.be/GC-ZBmGSQHw

Finishing up our center jobs!

Preparing for Tuesday’s big show!