Arctic Weather during our Arctic Animals Week

The weather this week certainly reflected our theme of Arctic Animals! Monday we learned about penguins and  made a project that included counting out the number of fish each penguin had to eat.

 

 

 

We watercolored a Northern Lights background and added polar bears on Tuesday. Watercoloring is a great activity for calming kiddos, so if your child is making you crazy on these days we’re trapped inside, break out the paints!!

Wednesday we learned about husky sled dogs and made a husky puppet. It required lots of parts and direction following. We wrapped up the week by making ourselves into Eskimos.

Since we couldn’t make it outside much this week, we did lots of movement indoors. Websites such as www.gonoodle.com provide lots of fun videos to move to. You can also find tons of Just Dance videos on Youtube.

 

Please continue to send all winter gear because we will go out whenever it’s “warm” enough.

Remember, NO SCHOOL on Monday. Have a great weekend!

We're Baaaaack!

It sounds like we all really enjoyed the long holiday break but now we are back to work. The kids all did great with the return to routine!! We are so excited to have snow to play in and we even have an igloo and ice fishing hole in our classroom.

We started the week with our January Person Book page. Wednesday we made snowmen to decorate our classroom.

Thursday we created a snowy scene by tearing paper and stamp painting with part of a real evergreen branch! We finished the week by adding a bundled up kiddo playing in the snow to our snowy scenes. All the creations are decorating our classroom and hallway since our walls were bare.

You will see a note in your child's folder this week for a fun Yoga & Smoothie event that is already coming up next Friday. Please get your RSVP back to us right away (whether or not you can make it) so we know how many people to prepare for.

Also, please continue to send ALL outside apparel & shoes for indoors.

Finally for our Morning Class Families - Please do not park in our driveway at all during the morning drop off time. It's causing trouble for our busses.. You are welcome to park on the road or the back lot, but the driveway is off limits for cars during this time. Please let anybody who is bringing your child to school know too! Thanks for your help!!