Welcome Back!

‎" Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable  stuff, it will catch fire. "
- Anatole France

 

 

We welcomed the children back with "Pasta Week" which was a few days of sorting pasta, stringing pasta, gluing and glittering pasta, and a popular activity, PAINTING with spaghetti....which involves cooked spaghetti, paint, paper, and ready hands; reciting poems about spaghetti, 

"I said, 'throw confetti', They must have misheard me, 'cause they all threw spaghetti!"

and reading books about pasta, like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.  A favorite book was a book about Minnie and Freddie, who loved spaghetti. The culminating activity was a pasta lunch with our 4/5 buddies, complete with salad and bread and ziti AND dessert. Coming back to a familiar and playful activity like pasta helps us to transition back to the activity and social whirl of the prek classroom!

Until Next Time,

Michele

glue, and pasta

technology in OUR classroom

watch!

this group is going camping...

are you ready for this?

this guy stayed with this activity the longest and then washed all the dishes!

sorted!

I'm ready to eat some spaghetti!

take a picture of us asleep!

friends

playing in the "snow"

looking for icicles!