It’s been wonderful to be back at school with the children this week! We’ve been exploring the snow in our yard, uncovering “buried treasure” with shovels and sifters. We’ve been cooking up soup in our play kitchen, exploring new materials in the sensory table and using stamps to write notes for each other.
Nona’s family came in to celebrate her fifth birthday on Thursday! We had fun learning about sea creatures from her animal encyclopedia. Happy birthday, Nona!
While reading Buffalo Fluffalo by Bess Kalb and Erin Kroan, we did an experiment! In the story, the buffalo gets wet and becomes much smaller. We poured water over crumped-up tissues and observed what happened when they got wet. The tissues shrunk and the children described what happened. “It’s wet,” said Charlie. “It’s heavy when there’s water,” said Luca. Renata said, “You see this rain cloud? It got squeezed. A cloud is made of water. The water makes the buffalo puffy and smaller.”
The week before our February break, we celebrated Valentine’s Day by working on Valentines for each other and our families. Children put Valentines in each others’ mailboxes and hung decorated hearts in our school’s front window. Rose’s mom came in to read a Valentine’s Day story with us and decorate cookies!
Finally, in theater adventures this week, we took turns twirling like snowflakes on the wind. Then we had to sneak past some winter creatures to rescue an egg and bring it back to its penguin parent! We were successful.
Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you all next week!
