Blending Berries

We had a culinary week together in the Afternoon Class. On Monday, we stayed cool by making smoothies together. The children helped peel bananas, scoop frozen berries, and pour milk into a blender. Children had a lot to share — “That’s a blender!“ noted Clive. “I eat that!“ said Willy about the berries. Eli and Athena noticed there were so many kinds of berries in the mix, including blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries. Amari helped squeeze our bottle of honey to add a little extra sweetness. We enjoyed the smoothies together during snack time, with many children requesting seconds! Our story this week was Eating the Alphabet by Lois Elhert, which paired well with all our cooking activities. We noted which ingredients were in the book, and it guided many conversations about food children have tried, enjoy, or don’t really like the taste of. On Thursday, we mashed bananas together to make our banana bread. Everyone is getting very confident when using measuring cups and spoons; this loaf may have been our best one yet!

Indoors, we played an animal guessing game during meeting, practiced cutting tape, and used playdough. Outside, we stayed as cool as possible! Lots of water was offered to scoop, pour, and dump, and we even investigated a huge chunk of ice together. We chipped away at it using scoops and bowls, and when Eli poured water over it it made a fascinating sizzling sound.

We explored oil pastels together in the yard:

“I’m drawing people, I will make me and James.“ - Briar

“I’m drawing red!” - James

“I’m making Lily and James, they are so cute!” - Lily

We hope you all have a great long weekend, and look forward to seeing you next week. We hope you can join us for our End of Year Celebration on Wednesday, May 27th at 4pm.

Moving Our Bodies

The past few months, our Hello Song has been an opportunity to free style, dance, and wiggle, while friends welcome each other with their singing voices. This week, kids were challenged to attempt different, specific dance moves. The same way instruments can be played in different ways to make new sounds, bodies can move in different ways! Standing on a dot, each kid practiced twirling, twisting, and slapping their knees to say hello. Kids also learned a new song that teaches us how to move our bodies as if they were animals. Together, we flew like eagles in the sky, swam like fish in the ocean, and jumped like bunnies in a forest. 

The sensory table seemed to only have whisks and water in it. As kids mixed and shook the water with their whisks, suddenly, bubbles began to appear! Soon enough, the table looked like a bubble bath. 

Using glue and recycled cardboard, friends sat at the Message Center making collages. We used our hands to grab pieces of cardboard and bring them back to our spots. Then, we used our fingers to hold the cardboard, apply glue, and stick to the paper. It was beautiful to see a once blank sheet of paper turn into an explosion of color and collaboration! 

In the yard, friends used hollow blocks to construct cars, scooters, and motorcycles. Everyone took turns taking rides on their vehicles with a partner and then swapping who gets to be the driver. Everyone was so flexible and willing to share their structures. We took trips to the coffee shop, supermarkets, and friends’ grandparents’ houses. 

We finished our days practicing using our voices to accompany whatever instrument was playing the Goodbye Song that day. Singing loud meant we couldn’t understand the words, but not singing at all wasn’t much fun either. We are learning to find the beautiful in between.

"Five Little Speckled Bugs"

Last week at our light table had transparent blocks and small plastic bugs on it, and Ju-milia re-mixed of one of the songs we sing. This new version of “Five Green and Speckled Frogs” was adjusted to include the materials we were offering in the classroom:

Five little speckled bugs

sat on a speckled log

eating the most delicious leaves — yum, yum!

one jumped into the pool

where it was nice and cool

now there are just four speckled bugs — BUZZZZ!

(We sing this song until all the bugs have jumped into the pool and none are left on the log!)

This week, we explored this song further during meeting time. We began by singing the song together and showing the progression of five bugs to zero bugs on a wooden block — then eager friends took turns moving the bugs off the block themselves. On Wednesday and Thursday, things really got exciting as the children themselves became the bugs! Four to five children at a time stood on the “log“ made out of hollow blocks or soft mats. Each child waited until the teacher called their name within the songs and jumped off. This was a such fun way to continue developing our number sense, to practice waiting our turn, and to enjoy singing together.

During choice time, children used the trains without the premade tracks and instead built their own out of blocks. At the water table, the large and small droppers continued to challenge and excite friends as they tried to fill them up the whole tube. We added ice trays, and Lily meticulously filled in each compartment with the dropper. “Look what I did!“

At the play-dough table, children noticed that the material was set up as long logs, which Louisa called “snakes.“ Friends were curious how to recreate them , and practiced rolling the play-dough back and forth with two hands. Some times the play-dough got too thin and broke, and we learned to pinch it back together to repair it. After making a long snake, the next step for many children was to snip it into many tiny pieces with our play-dough scissors.

Outside, we enjoyed the sunny spring weather! Zoe created a hammering activity using wooden hammers, golf tees, and foam blocks. Tapping the nail with the hammer reminder some of us of drumming on our goodbye drum — Clive started singing our “Goodbye friends“ tune, which we changed to “Hammer the nail, hammer the nail…“ Amari and Briar discovered a new ball rolling game using the narrow wooden bench as a sort of track. Eli prepared obstacle courses made out of hollow blocks and milk crates for Afternoon class, and they enjoyed stepping through it and jumping off at the end. After a few rounds of this, Briar and James turned the obstacle course into a train. On Thursday, Wyler and Willy took the invitation to clean the walls very seriously and dunked the sponge rollers into soapy water to scrub off all the paint from the week.

We held an early birthday celebration for our dear classmate Henry, as he is starting his summer vacation early with his grandparents in Boston.

Have a great weekend, and we look forward to seeing you next week!

Cooking Together

The Afternoon Class was a big help during snack prep this week. On Tuesday, they poured, squeezed, and mixed to make chia pudding. After the pudding had set overnight, we enjoyed it on Wednesday, and also helped Zoe slice bananas for snack time. It feels so fun to work together toward a tangible and delicious goal!

During choice time, we explored fresh flowers (leftover from our fundraiser) in our sensory table. Friends made bouquets, investigated the petals individually by plucking them off, and stuffed them into the various containers and tubes. “The flower smells good,” noticed Wylie.

We set out our light table for the class to explore with transparent building blocks and bugs. Some of the transparent blocks made their way to our window, and we looked through them to see the neighborhood tinted in different colors. “Everything’s pink!” said Lily.

Outside, friends organized themselves into a jumping game. Children stood on one of our low benches and practiced jumping onto the red rug repeatedly. We cheered together for each friend — “Yay, Willy! Yay, Henry!”

We had a lovely week ; here are some additional photos of our time together.

In All the Shades of Red (and a Little Bit of Earth, Too) 🌎

This week, our afternoon friends followed a color that felt both bold and full of possibility. Inspired by Red from Laura Vaccaro Seeger's color series, we began to notice just how many reds live quietly (and loudly) around us. Inside the classroom, while exploring and playing, James exclaimed, “Cool! A red dinosaur!”—opening the door to a week of looking a little closer and seeing a little more. Our hands explored red again through crayons of different shapes, each mark telling its own story. Color became something we could hold, layer, and return to.

Music and movement carried us up and over our soft block “mountain” as we sang She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain, each friend choosing the color of their horse—riding together through rhythm, imagination, and laughter. Inside, we turned our attention to texture—mixing playdough and noticing its transformation. “It’s getting sticky!” Willy shared, as Athena echoed, “Really sticky!” Eventually, we combined our dough with green, shaping something that felt like our version of the Earth—colors meeting, blending, becoming.

Out in the yard, red came alive in brushstrokes—paint meeting air, movement, and sunlight. As always, our yard offers its own invitations: water flowing through, fabric swaying along our clothesline, and bodies testing balance, height, and the joy of a well-timed jump. Risk, trust, and delight all woven together.

We ended our week with the warm comfort of banana bread, made together and enjoyed together, and with the gentle sounds of the xylophone as small hands created their own melodies alongside our goodbye song.

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend—we’re so excited to gather again at our Earth Day fundraiser this Saturday!

Say Cheese!

Last week, kids explored cameras as machines and practiced taking getting their picture taken with Polaroids, which both excited them and prepared them for this week’s Picture Day! While the big group played outside, kids took turns going inside with Zoe to meet Fernanda, the photographer, and get their photo taken.

Our practice climbing on soft climbing blocks as well as decorating cardboard boxes outside really supported the children in understanding the directional language Fernada used to guide the children:

“Can you take one step back?”

“Stand on top of the stool.”

“Move to the side.”

Group activities, like our Hello Meeting and our Goodbye Circle, also helped prepare children to take a class photo; we needed to take turns with our voices to hear the photographer, we had to listen to instructions, and we had to organize ourselves within a large group. Now, we’re all practicing the challenging skill of waiting to see how our photos turned out!

During snack, we read Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni, a story about friendship, identity, and color mixing. When the two friends, little blue and little yellow, hug, they turn green and confuse their families. After reading this story, we wondered, “What would red and blue look like if they hugged?” Immediately, we went outside and used paint to test our hypothesis.

At the end of the week, the kids helped Jasmin make smoothies. They peeled bananas and moved strawberries to the blender using tongs, blending them all up so we could enjoy the concoction at snack time.

Building a Slide

We explored our various soft blocks a lot this week. Paired with silks and stuffies, the blocks became special houses, caves, or mountains to climb onto. We also built an exciting indoor slide! Willy and Eli helped Jasmin push together the different parts to create a slide with stairs, a landing, and a downward slope. The friends climbed up the stairs and waited at the top for their turn. “It’s clear!” said Henry before sliding down (gymnastic mats cushioned our landing). Lots of important skills were at play to enjoy this activity — whole-body awareness, noticing when the slide was clear for the next child’s turn, and finding the back of the line to wait for another turn.

Outdoors, we had similar gross-motor challenges waiting for us — on Thursday, Eli and Athena set up a long obstacle course. Children were invited to balance on wobbly foam blocks, climb up the blue barrels, and step in and out of milk crates.

During meeting, we talked about the upcoming Picture Day, and even practiced taking individual portraits with a Polaroid camera. During choice time, real cameras were available for exploration. We’re excited to take photos together on Monday!

Banana Bread!

With so many extra bananas from last week’s snack, we were inspired to bake banana bread muffins together on Tuesday! Eli, Athena, Willy and Lily sliced and mashed the bananas, and Amari, Clive, and James and Briar mixed the puree into brown sugar and oil. We love singing our “Mix it all around“ song to know when it’s time to pass the mixing bowl and spoon to the next friend. After adding in the dry ingredients, we poured the batter into muffin tins and baked them in our little toaster oven. “Banana bread ready?“ Willy asked when the timer went off.

At snack time, we smelled, looked at, and tasted the fresh muffins together. “Chocolate!“ said Clive excitedly as he spotted the melted chips in the muffins. “Banana bread,” noted Wylie. Some friends who were so eager to help mix the ingredients weren’t as interested in eating it, and vice versa. We loved the opportunity to cook and enjoy food together — let us know if there are any fun baking and cooking activities you enjoy with your child at home!

We set up our indoor climbing blocks at the request of some friends, and it was interested to see how independently children could navigate play there, in contrast to when more guidance was required in the fall. Lily brought over her doll and rested in the tunnel. Henry and Eli took turns being on top and inside the block. Willy showed us how quickly he could dive through it.

On sunny Thursday afternoon, children got elbow-deep in blue, yellow, and white paint outdoors. Afterwards, they eagerly received Zoe’s offering of soapy water, sponges and rollers to scrub the walls, table, and even the ground. “This paint is so old, we have to get it off“ said Eli. “We’re cleaning!“ said Lily.

This week we also explored bells during our meeting time; we even attached them to our ankles and heard them jingle as we danced and jumped! We read Rain! by Linda Ashman and Christian Robinson, in which we see two people experience a rainy day very differently. It’s been rewarding to read books about rain during this ever-changing spring weather, specifically to encourage a positive and inquisitive perspective on rainy days.

We hope you all have a wonderful Spring Break, and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, April 7th.

The Color Green

To welcome Spring, we read Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger. We also explored this color at choice time — using glue sticks, green paper, and green images from magazines, we created a collaborative collage on a large background piece. The children made marks with the purple-tinted glue sticks on the paper, tested how much glue was needed to make collage pieces stick, and noticed the sticky residue on our hands when we were done. One prompt we used to remember the sequence of steps was “Glue on the paper, then paper on the glue.” This meant that first we put glue on to the background piece, and then we bring the collage piece onto that gluey spot.

We visited our garden, which was waking up from its long winter slumber. Jasmin prompted us to look for something green, and we found so many leaves and stems growing! “Plants!” exclaimed Lily. “One finger touch,” Henry reminded himself and others as he carefully felt the smooth leaves of the tulips. We’re so excited to see the plants continue to grow and bloom.

The children also discovered that the sensory table had been filled with shallow water, pipettes, and large turkey basters! We practiced moving around the water, learning when and how to pinch the pipettes to fill them up. It was a great find motor challenge for everyone that sustained our attention for long periods of time this week.

During circle time, we sang many songs with our shakers. Certain children had strong color preferences when choosing shakers: Eli said, “I want the ladybug shaker!” and Lily requested, “Purple, please!” “Red!” said James. We practiced shaking them high up and down low, fast, slow, and even behind our backs. “Do you hear my loud cymbal?” asked Amari, who used his shaker like a mallet tapping on a pretend cymbal. Next week we plan on moving on to bells as our main musical instrument.

Thank you to everyone for meeting with us during Spring Conferences this week. It was so nice to connect about your wonderful children. We hope you all have a beautiful weekend!

New Ways to Use Rhythm Sticks

Daylight Savings and unseasonably warm weather had us spending a lot of time outside! With tubs of water, filled up by the rain, kids tested which materials and objects float and which sink. Many rubber duckies and ocean animals received baths from friends in smocks, pouring water over their heads. Being reunited with our bouncy balls and discovering tiered, hanging colanders made for some fun games of catch and basketball. We even got a big group chasing game going where we all pick one person to chase and follow them around the yard before we switch who we chase and what direction we’re going.

At Meeting Time, we learned new ways to make music with rhythm sticks. Singing along to the tune of Wheels on the Bus, we remembered how to tap our sticks, but also learned how to pound them on the rug and use them like hammers.

During Inside Choice Time, friends used play-dough to practice their skills with scissors. Stretching the dough so it is thin enough to snip and even adding pretend bugs to the mix made for dynamic story telling. Using contact paper, kids sorted through pieces of paper into two groups: blue and green. What was created were beautiful collages of shades of blue and green, almost resembling the Springtime feeling we get from outside.

At Goodbye Circle, we all got a turn to show the new ways we learned to use rhythm sticks.

We will see you all next week for Spring Conferences. Reminder: School is closed for conference meetings on Wednesday March 18 and for Eid al-Fitr on Friday March 20. Have a great weekend!

New Heights, Puddles, and a Wonderful World 🌧️

A rainy week brought moments of listening, exploring, encouraging one another, and celebrating together.

Inside the classroom, we opened the loft for the very first time. With excitement and care, the children practiced climbing up and safely making their way back down. As each friend descended, encouraging voices called out “Good job!” while joyful greetings of “Hi!” echoed down from up high. At snack time, we enjoyed reading Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire. The children delighted in the silly scenes and imaginative possibilities the story offered.

With rain falling throughout the week, we leaned into the experience with curiosity, wondering what we might discover by using our senses. Outside, we listened to raindrops tapping against bowls and tubs, watched as rainwater slowly gathered in buckets, and explored the cool feeling of water with our hands. Small rubber ducks were carefully transferred from one tub to another, receiving gentle “baths” as the children noticed how water splashes, fills, and moves.

We also celebrated Amari’s birthday this week. His family shared a delicious treat of fig bars, and together we read the lively What a Wonderful World, inspired by the song made famous by Louis Armstrong, reflecting on the many beautiful things that make our world so special.

Please enjoy some photos from the last couple of weeks. Have a wonderful weekend!

A Snowy Week of Digging, Discovering, and Delight ❄️

This week, our afternoon class was greeted by a yard transformed—blanketed in fresh snow and full of possibility. The children were immediately drawn outside, eager to explore all that the snowy landscape had to offer.

With shovels in hand, friends got right to work. Digging became the heart of our play—scooping, scraping, and piling snow with great focus and determination. Some children explored the satisfying weight of big chunks of snow, while others experimented with how deep they could dig or how high they could pile their discoveries. There was a beautiful sense of purpose as they worked, often side by side, fully absorbed in the process.

Along the way, children let their bodies gently fall into the snow, noticing how it felt beneath them—cold, soft, and grounding. These moments of movement and stillness allowed them to connect with their bodies and the environment in a calm, joyful way.

The snow gave us the perfect invitation to slow down, explore, and follow the children’s lead. What stood out most was their deep engagement—how something as simple as a shovel and snow could inspire such curiosity, concentration, and shared delight. It was a truly special week spent digging into winter together ❄️

Have a great, warm, and cozy weekend!

Making Play-Dough

We made play-dough together this week! This is a beloved activity in the morning class, and we loved sharing the experience with the Afternoon friends this week. The children worked with Ju-milia to scoop, pour, mix and mush all the ingredients together to make a fresh batch of green play dough. Everyone had ideas of what to make; Eli announced, “I’m making latkes!” as he sculpted flat round shapes, and Naomi generously shared her creation with Jasmin: “I made some really delicious noodles, do you want some?” Willy experimented with our play-dough scissors, and Briar quietly sang Happy Birthday after making a play-dough cake with popsicle-stick candles.

We also had tons of fun in our snowy yard! Friends were abuzz with excitement as they shoveled snow and drove construction trucks through the icy terrain. We love the opportunity to explore ice and snow in the yard together.

Here are a few more photos from the week, including of a beanbag tossing game we played — the children had helped us fill the bean bags with corn from our sensory table a few weeks ago!

I Spy With My Little Eye

The cardboard box we’ve transformed into a house continues to create so many moments of joy. It never stops surprising friends when an eye peeks out of a window or when a kid emerges from the box after someone has knocked on the door. Sometimes, the house even grows legs and walks around the yard!

During snack, we read “Nosy!” By Seymour Chwast, a book shaped like and about noses. The story led to some great conversations about smells, body awareness, and even animals; we learned how birds have beaks instead of noses, but have nostrils, just like us.

After snack, kids got very busy playing in the classroom. The play kitchen has been bustling with pots and bowls overflowing with pom poms and peg people. Towers were built, knocked down, and built again with magnatiles.

The cubby windows opened up this week as a choice during playtime. At the window, kids could use binoculars to examine the outside world from the inside. Quickly, everyone started shouting out things they could see, and the activity turned into a game of “I Spy”. It was fun to come up with words that help describe what we were seeing. We could describe the clothes people were wearing, the type of fur on a dog, the speed of a bike, or even the direction of cars.

At the end of the day, kids would meet together on the rug to play instruments while listening to music. It’s a great way to practice sharing and taking turns with materials as well as explore concepts like rhythm and volume. While listening to Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebees”, we pretended our shakers were bees and flew them high over our heads and all around the green rug.

Enjoy the long holiday weekend and we’ll see you on Tuesday next week!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! This week we had a great time exploring our new classroom setup and materials.

Outdoors, we continued playing with big cardboard boxes and even decided to cut windows into some of them. We saw this inspire peek-a-boo games and other fun social connections. We also added more milkcrates to our yard, which children stacked, pushed, and crawled into.

Indoors, we practiced building (and knocking down) magnatiles. Friends built tall towers, cars, and homes for the small animal figures we had available. We also had some joyful music and movement time on the rug, during which children chose instruments they wanted to explore, picking from a selection that included tambourines, a drum, rhythm sticks, agogos, and shakers.

Our book this week was Snow Day, which describes how a town clears the roads after a snowstorm. The children loved finding details such as snow-covered branches and snow plows.

Here are some photos from our week, we hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Our Snowy Days

The Winter snow was such a treat this week in the yard! Kids took turns playing with shovels, big and small, to scoop and move snow. Everyone could see how long their turn was by using a 5-minute sand timer; once all the sand reached the bottom, it was time to give the shovel to a different friend. Snow turns out to be an excellent ingredient for making pizza, as kids loved mixing it into pots and finding pieces of ice that looked just like slices of pizza.

After taking off jackets and snow pants, we all warmed up together in a circle on the rug and sang songs. We learned a new song called “Who Is Sitting Next To You?”, which challenges us to go around the circle naming the friends beside us.

This week, we also enjoyed snack while sitting together at tables and reading Ezra Jack Keats classic story, “The Snowy Day”. Kids knew how to find their spot at the table by checking which chair had their water bottle in front of it.

Who Takes Care of Us?

More and more lights and holiday decorations are popping up around Brooklyn as the holiday season approaches, and the same is true at Brooklyn Schoolhouse! In the block area, kids have been playing with colorful see-through cups, shiny CDs, and peg people. In the sensory table, corn has been paired with drawstring bags and little electric candle lights. It’s fascinating to fill up the bags with corn and lights to see how bright it shines through. It’s also been great fine motor work to pull the bags open with our fingers and figure out how to turn the candle lights on.

During our snack and story time, we read the book “Who Takes Care of You?” by Hannah Eliot, which sparked some really interesting conversations. When teachers asked the kids who takes care of them, they had so many different answers:

“My Judi!” said Lily

“My grown-ups and babysitter.” said Eli. Athena chimed in and said, “Those people take care of me too!”

“My mama.” said Naomi

“Up high!” said Willy, talking about how his dad lifts him up high on his shoulders.

“My daddy helps me.” said Henry

“Trisha” said Briar

“Bath!” said James, talking about how his grownups take care of him.

“My Gigi!” said Amari when the book was talking about grandmas.

It was really fun to dance to some new songs during our mat time. We listened to “The Elevator Song” by Laurie Berkner and used scarves to pretend to be the different animals she sings about. Kids were shouting “Elmo the Musical!” when they heard Elmo’s song, “Happy Dance.”

At our Goodbye Circle, we sang “Five Little Ducks” by Raffi and looked at an illustrated version of the song by Jose Arugo and Ariane Dewey. In the song, each day the ducks go outside but when Mama duck calls them back, one less duck returns. Soon, none of her ducks are with her anymore. But, she calls out to her babies one last time and they all reunite, celebrating with kisses!

It’s hard to believe we have one week left of school before our Winter Break. We’ll cherish the time together before it’s time to say “See you next year!”

Egg Cartons, Dress Up, and Train Tunnels

This week we read Bear Snores On, a snowy story for this chilly weather. “It’s snowy!” said Amari as we began the tale of a sleepy bear hibernating in a cave. The Afternoon Class enjoyed seeing which noisy animals entered the cave before the bear finally awoke.

Outdoors, Zoe led a fun activity where children moved through a “ring of fire“ (a hula hoop!).

Indoors, friends explored a tabletop of egg cartons, which they painted with a new color each day. It was a challenge to find which grooves held more paint for us to spread with paintbrushes.

We also saw some interesting independent and collaborative play emerge in our block area — some friends drove trains into our unit block area, and used arches to make a long tunnel. Eli and James worked together to move the trains without knocking over the arches, and Amari used a long wooden block to make his own train track.

We also switched out our dress-up materials, and friends enjoyed practicing dressing themselves in new stretchy skirts, wings, and mermaid tails, often all layered on top of each other! Henry turned the wings into a “cloak.” Here are some more photos from our week together. We hope you all have a great weekend!

Playing With Ginkgo Leaves

Last week everyone came to school bundled up in coats, hoodies, and hats to embrace the chilly weather. Bright yellow ginkgo leaves covered the ground of the yard, an enticing invitation to scoop up a handful and watch the leaves fall from our hands. It reminded kids of rain falling from the sky or confetti at a birthday party!

We also played with Bilibo Seats, or “shells”, a movement toy meant for wobbling, spinning, and balancing. It was first a challenge to comfortably climb into the seat, but quickly thereafter, it was tons of fun to see the different ways we could play with the chairs. Kids loved wobbling until they gently tumbled over to face the clouds and look up into the sky. It was hilarious to spin in the chairs using our feet to turn us around, or figuring out how to kneel in the chairs and spin using our arms. Some children even flipped the Bilibos over to use as stepping stones. We also enjoyed playing with large cardboard boxes which we drew, climbed into, and climbed on top of!

Inside, everyone sat on the big green rug to eat bananas and rice cakes while reading this week’s story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. The story takes us on a family’s adventure to search for a bear, taking them through squishy mud, deep rivers, and windy fields. Just as they enter a bear cave to find the beast they were searching for, the family realizes how fierce the creature is and turns around to redo their journey, this time heading straight home. At each obstacle, the family recites “We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. We’ve got to go through it.” The story both features fun imagery and playful sound effects, but also serves as reminder of how powerful it is to have friends, family, and community supporting you along what ever journey you’re taking.

During inside choice time, kids tried out some new chairs with arm rests. They’re slighter lower to the ground than the other chairs and provide extra support while kids are working on their core strength. It felt like the chairs became a choice of their own as kids really gravitated towards them for reading books in, carrying them to where their friends are and watching them play, or even finding space for them on the rug during goodbye circle.

Making Lines and Counting Leaves!

We continue to have playful and enriching autumnal days here at Brooklyn Schoolhouse! 

During our meetings this week, we talked about lining up: how we form a line, why we form a line, and when we walk in lines throughout our day! We practiced making lines with a variety of materials, including rubber ducks and magna tiles. 

We observed leaves and pinecones found in the yard while reading  “Leaf Man” by Lois Ehlert, our story of the week. This book initiated several interesting group conversations about autumnal activities and our favorite types of weather. 

We look forward to seeing you all next week for conferences, and hope that you can join us for our Live Animal Visit on Thursday 11/20!

Sincerely,

Your Brooklyn Schoolhouse Teachers