I Learned.......THANK YOU for a Great Year!

For our last post of the year, we asked the children

What did you learn this year?

Truman-I learned that when somebody gets hurt or gets a boo boo we can help!

Gilbert-I learned a lot. I learned a lot about our planets.

Alan-I learned that dinos were alive and then when humans came along they were dead.

Lucy-I learned that a lot of science things are interesting. I learned the alphabet!

Bertie-I learned that Science is a protocol. I learned about butterflies.

Caroline-I learned how to play with friends in dress-up. I learned that friends are important.

Caelen -I learned how to play at the playground.

Eliza-I learned that everything we do we have to be careful of other people’s feelings and make sure we don’t break their structures.

Brynn-I learned to play with blocks and dress up and markers.

Michael- I learned about structures. The weather. I love outside.

Kaia-I learned that I could build really giant structures with Eliza

Iris-I learned how to make new friends!

Jonathan- I learned how to color in a whole page!

Thomas-I learned about structures! I liked writing the message.

Spencer-I learned to make earths. And I know that my pants have a hole.

Declan-I learned how to play. I liked to play with parker pals.

Alex-I learned letters, games. I learned playing with dinosaurs and blocks.

Growing - Seeds!

We've begun growing plants  from seeds in the classroom. There are bags of seeds with paper and water on the window so that we can see the process of growing, and we have buried seeds in the dirt to sprout some flowers! The children are pretty clear about what happens first. When we gave them a piece of paper with a bean glued onto it, they chose to decorate it in many ways. Some children drew a flower head around the seed (we've talked about flowers being the source for seeds) and some children put the seed "underground" with roots and  a stem growing from it. Some children colored beautiful colors around their seed!

We had a beautiful and green walk outside this week, and we added dirt to our "butterfly garden" which needed replenishing!  We will be looking for donations of cutting from family gardens soon.....

For National Love a Tree Day, we posted some love notes onto the tree outside our window. The children said such things as "I love your shade" and "I love your pinecones".

The flower bed is ready for some new life! 

The BIG news in the classroom was the construction of intricate block structures; some as individual projects and others as group constructions. 

block transport!

Building like this takes a stretch of time, focus, cooperation, and determination to handle random crashes and balance issues!  

Until Next Time,

Michele