Soup and Sharing

 We work hard in the preparation of our feast, from pumpkin bread making, invitation sending, and vegetable chopping to practicing our story that we'll share with our families and friends. Thank you for your enthusiasm and participation in our wonderful day!

the inside of our vegetables!

following the soup from chopping to cooking!

 Sharing with families and friends is what our Harvest Feast is all about. The children are quite proud of their role in cooking the soup, and we enjoy the love and friendship that is shared on this day!

Prepping For Our Party!

We have spent the week getting ready for our Harvest Feast! We baked loaves of pumpkin bread, created and delivered invitations, and practiced our songs and a special story that we're going to tell. (hint: "How goes the work?!"). As the PreK 4's are an important part of each step of the process, they feel an authentic ownership and anticipation of our special event.

We've changed the blocks in our classroom and we are now using "unit blocks" for our building time. These blocks are quite different, and we'll continue to document the building skills of the children as they learn how to create big structures with little blocks. 

                                                                                                                                                   

Our classroom is a loving and learning place. Just this week, a child shared a very loving message with her peers, and another child chose  a "hug" for the morning greeting share. We have our differences and our difficulties, but we are learning that everyone has feelings and that we need to take care of each other. Thank your for the opportunity to teach your children-we learn so much from them every day!

Until Next Time,

                                           Michele

Seeds and Change

This week we talked about the changes of fall-and why the flowers die, so that seeds can fall to the ground and get planted again. We looked closely at seeds outside and stuck them to sticky paper as we gathered them. We glued seeds from packages that we opened, and found out that seeds come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. Our approach to learning about seeds has been very hands on and experiential.

 talking about family pictures-












a newly written book

a busy writing table and sharing ideas

Pumpkin Bread Baking! We baked bread for our upcoming Harvest Feast. 

wet ingredients, dry ingredients

baking is a very hands on activity in the PreK 4 classroom!

 AND a very happy birthday girl!                                                                                                                                                                                                Until Next Time,
                                                                                 Michele