With two weeks since our last newsletter there’s so much classroom news to report! A preschool classroom is a place with many interests and needs, and so our days are filled with a wide variety of activities. Here are a few:
- We made pancakes last Friday from the buckwheat that we grew from seed. Everyone tried them, and most kids liked them!
- We turned our dramatic play center from a farm stand into a restaurant, practicing taking orders, making a delivering menus, and ordering food.
- When we tired of restaurant play we turned the dramatic play center into a vet’s office - turns out there are lots of injured animals in our classroom!
- We wrote a book about how to care for our new classroom pets, and practiced holding stuffed animal bunnies. Then…
- We concentrated so hard that the stuffed animals turned into REAL bunnies! We’ve had so much fun holding them and learning how to care for them.
- We helped Sarah create a new garden bed on our playground. We’ll plant a bean teepee there in the spring!
- We’ve read books about pumpkins, squirrels, and autumn.
- We’ve LOVED becoming animals in the woods, particularly squirrels caching acorns for the winter.
- We had a visit from the Guilford Fire Department who taught us all about what to do if there’s a fire in your house.
Conferences are in two weeks (Thursday and Friday November 7th and 8th). Please call the front office or talk to me at pick up or drop off to schedule a time to come chat about your wonderful child. Remember, the 7th and 8th are half days, with dismissal at 11:30.
Finally, if you have any extra bunny ear headbands for dress up, or vet supplies like bandages, tape or doctor tools, we’d love to borrow them or take them off your hands. Thank you!
Working on the "nest for three"
"Can I take your order?"
These little squirrels are finding acorns that they cached for winter.
Pumpkin factory! A great way to start using tools.
screw driver, hammers, hand crank drill
practicing creating patterns with twine, leaves, and twigs
"Look! It's the same length as my finger!"
Not quite real bunnies, but a perfect way to practice.
A new classroom tool - wooden hammer, tiny nails, pattern blocks, and cork board.
Check out the cage these little bunnies built for themselves!
Everyone in the class made a page for our book about taking care of the bunnies.
good practice
Our buckwheat pancakes were delicious!
We're still not sure who made it, but there's a perfect see-saw next to our rain house!
cranking flour for the pancakes
mixing pancake batter
One of our current sorting activities is "Animals that live in Guilford" and "Animals that DON'T live in Guilford". Kids have been adding their own pictures.
An afternoon activity making nature mandalas.
Kids who wanted to got to go on the fire truck!
"I can help you zip your jacket!"
a little owl
and a cat
This is the favorite squirrel hideout - lots of acorns to protect!
Welcome Dandelion! (Clover is still a little nervous about being held).
an expedition searching for "evidence" of animals
Look at those holes in the leaf - evidence that an insect has been there!
An upturned tree makes a great bear den.
We were done with hammering nails into the pumpkins, so time to paint them!
a fun discovery on an expedition
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