Hi families! Here are our activities and links for today: Reminder: Please sign up for parent survey/check-in calls this week! We are holding them today and tomorrow. A sensory activity: Water play! Fill up your sink or a small bin with a few inches of water (maybe take it outside!) Use cups, spoons, funnels, and [...]
Teacher Message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlE7jbP6v7E&t=2s Hi Everyone! In today’s video, I read the book “Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear?” by Martin Wadell and illustrated by Barbara Firth. Forgive the spoiler, but there’s a moment in the book that I really love. Little Bear is afraid of the dark, and Big Bear tries to help by [...]
Hello families! News: We’ve extended our office hours sign-ups until the end of June. The link in the signature is active again! Patterns Week 2: Focus for the week: Offering children tactile experiences where they experience differing attributes, while teachers narrate the experience (offering children a chance to hold a heavy rock, describing the different [...]
Hi, Redbud families! In today's teacher message, Sock the hand puppet and I tell a story about a flower that we found together in our backyard! We notice that the flower is taller than Sock's body, and we count how many leaves and blooms the flower has. Today's suggested activity: natural materials are great tools for [...]
Hi families! We hope this email finds you well this Monday morning and that you were able to enjoy the warm weather this weekend. IMPORTANT NEWS: Please sign up for your 10-15 minutes phone call with Rachel/Patricia this week! This will be a quick survey/check-in which will help us to shape the rest of [...]
Hello Forest Friends! We are starting a new curriculum on technology! We've been talking as staff a lot about our frustrations, gratitude, anxiety, and other Big Feelings about Zoom and our school interactions all being mediated now through tech. And now we want to do some activities and have some conversations that address these feelings [...]
Hello families! News: Jarrod has filmed a sing along! Check it out here: you can send your requests for next time, there will be another in two weeks! Patterns Week 2: Focus for the week: Offering children tactile experiences where they experience differing attributes, while teachers narrate the experience (offering children a chance to hold [...]
Hello Forest Friends Families, I am a big tea drinker. I will have a few cups a day. What are drinks or foods does your family enjoy? Join me for an afternoon cup of tea. https://youtu.be/PCegmUZ7Vr4 I hope everyone is doing well and getting a chance to safely enjoy the warm weather. Zach
Hi Redbud families! In today's teacher video I read Dinosaur rumpus by Tony Mitton. Check out the extra video where I sing Happy Birthday and blow out a candle in for Wyatt's 3rd birthday! https://youtu.be/6gewmfsMgr4 (Dinosaur Rumpus) https://youtu.be/0RuZoJYvY1c (Wyatt birthday song) Inspired by today's book the activity is to have a dance party [...]
Hello families! News: A reminder to mail your child’s flower art in to CCS if you would like! Stephanie will create a collage that families will be able to see whenever we reopen. Patterns Week 1: Focuses for the week: Using descriptive language with children, exposing them to words describing size, shape, color, weight, texture, [...]