Hi families! Here are our activities and videos for today: Singing: Teacher Rachel talks about how we are all growing and sings “I Wonder If I’m Growing”. Science experiment: Shiny pennies. Collect dirty tarnished pennies and have soak them in a small bowl of vinegar with a teaspoon of salt. Within a minute the [...]
Hi Redbud Families, Teacher Message: Pato the puppet and I sing "All the Little Ducks Go Upside Down." Activity for Home: As I attempted to imitate a duck for this video, I was reminded of a game we often play at CCS—you've probably played it too! We like to call it "Can You Do What I [...]
Hi families! Here are our videos and activities for today: Singing: Join Teacher Patricia for some singing today! She tells a little story and sings some songs about the sun -- can you think of any more songs about the sun? Silkworm math: Measuring. If you measured your silkworms before, try measuring them [...]
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: Using descriptive language with children, exposing them to words describing size, shape, color, weight, texture, flavor, etc. Skill we [...]
Hello Forest Friend Families, It's Teacher Sarah! Today I have read one of my favorite books growing up called When Pigasso Met Mootisse. It's a story about artists Picasso and Matisse as a pig and bull, respectively, and it's very silly while sharing their colorful painting styles. Matisse-inspired art collage activity: Children can paint with [...]
Hello Juneberries, Come take a walk with me in my garden. We will see some familiar flowers and some we haven't talked about yet. After you look at my video I would like you to tell us about what you are growing at your home or what you see in your neighborhood. You can draw [...]
Hi families! Here are our activities and links for today: A math activity: Shape puzzles! Cut out triangles, squares, and rectangles from paper. Invite your child to put the shapes together to create new shapes. "Can you use two triangles to create a square? How about two triangles to make a bigger triangle?" Take [...]
Thank you to the families who shared notes or made donations during Teacher Appreciation Week. Let me say how much we appreciate each family at CCS, and are grateful to be part of this community! Teacher Message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fFSutL8fDU Today, I sing a favorite Redbud train song! Activity for Home: Red Light, Green Light [...]
Hello Forest Friends! Be sure to mark your calendars for Thursday 4pm, we have another Forest Friends Zoom! Teacher Madeleine here! Today I have a video of Lulu and I reading a story we made together called "Toto and Dorothy." We've been listening to a lot of audiobooks during rest (free on audible right now--I [...]
Hello families! News: Thank you so much for all of your Teacher Appreciation Week gifts and drawings! We appreciate you all. Patterns Week 1: Focuses for the week (we will post these with the daily email to give some context for our activities) : Using descriptive language with children, exposing them to words describing size, [...]