News of the Day 12/14/2011

This morning we...
- all played the board game "Pirate the Pirate"
- read "The Tomten and the Fox"
- played supers
- played crab family
- built a house with hollow blocks and played babies
- practiced our most difficult songs
Outside we...
- played super worms vs. the hawk and jaguar
This afternoon we...
- welcomed Lois for a top secret workshop

*** We decided to say goodbye to our slug friends Slimy, Fred, and Little Albert. Amazingly when we emptied the tank... THEY WEREN'T THERE!!!

News of the Day 12/13/2011

This morning we...
- worked for a long time on a Winter Celebration decoration
- practiced our songs
- read "The Tomten"
- played jungle, and spookyhouse, and babies
Outside we...
- played Bite Me Pizza
- bounced on the big plank
- played Robots, and Supers, and Burglars
This afternoon we...
- played Go Fish
- read about the Winter Solstice

News of the Day 12/12/2011

This morning we...
- drew pictures and cut paper
- played logic games
- had Español con Teal
- played mice
- played Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty
- had Piano with Britta
Outside we...
- mixed cement (snow and dirt)
- made a sidewalk, using the cement
- played squirrels and elves
This afternoon we...
- read "Snowballs"
- began working on collage snow people

News of the Day 12/9/2011

Today we...
- drew pictures, cut paper, and punched holes
- practiced sewing
- sang our favorite songs
- ate chip and hummus and clementines
- played Polar Express
- played key land
- put on a puppet show
Outside we...
- shoveled and had a snowball fight. We practiced NOT throwing snowballs at faces

Let's Talk Supers...

Today we...
- built an extensive train track and road. We pretended they were sidewalks and the trains were sidewalk plows. We played this for quite some time!
- read "Gingerbread Baby"
- ate chips and hummus and popcorn
- got ready to go outside ;)
Outside we...
- shoveled snow
- played "conveyer belt"

News of the Day 12/7/2011

Sushi Workshop with Marlee!!!

Today we...
- cut snowflakes
- made flyers
- read "Max's Castle"
- had a sushi making workshop with Marlee
- played sushi restaurant
- played animal hospital
- had Español con Teal
Outside we...
- played spaceship
- bounced on a looooooong plank

News of the Day 12/6/2011

News of the Day 12/5/2011

Today we...
- created objects (computers, beepers, trash cans) out of recycled materials
- layed out our new Number Line from 0-100 in groups of 10
- read "Monster Trap"
- saved Otis's sheep BaaBaa from any hiding Lego guys. We were a family during this defense, complete with a babysitter!
Outside we...
- played robots
- played hatching eggs
This afternoon we...
- talked about the number line and counted by 10's
















Reading Conferences- Jonah and Lily

News of the Day 12/2/2011

Today we...
- baked lots of play dough creations including burnt cookies and pie (that they tried to feed to their teacher!)
- read "One Hole in the Road"
- sang "Turn the World Around", "Ladybug Picnic", "Cat Came Back", and "Monkey and the Engineer"
- ate pretzels and apples
- built a BIG Cookiebot out of a hollow blocks and tried to save the cookies from the troublemaker dolphins
- played babies and animal house
- played Snail Pace Race
Outside we...
- played in the sandbox and on the swings
- hopped on the patio squares

News of the Day 12/1/2011

Today we...
- created lots of cakes and pies out of play dough. We love to bake these creations in the play over!
- read "In The Night Kitchen", inspired by our play dough baking
- sang "Monkey...", "Ladybug Picnic", and "The Cat Came Back"
- ate muffins and clementines
- built Cookiebot out of hollow blocks
- played babies
Outside we...
- were trash collectors
- played hoppers on a path of patio squares
- practiced on the swings

News Of The Day 11/30/2011

This morning we...

- finished our 2nd Titanic chapter book, "Titanic, The Disaster that Shocked the World"
- played "The Enchanted Forest" board game
- played spies
- learned a new measurement and counting board game "Inching Along"

Outside we...

- Played "Math Problems": some of us gave addition problems to others

- Played lava and gatekeepers on the patio squares

This afternoon we...

- completed the "Inching Along" game began earlier in the day

Reading Conferences: Rowan and Zora