Hello families! News: Child Psychologist Dr. Stephen Glazier will be leading a webinar tonight, May 4th at 8pm, and will include a talk for 45 minutes before Dr. Glazier opens up for questions. If you cannot attend, the webinar will also be taped. You can email Naima if you are interested in attending, and send [...]
Hi Redbud Families, It's the return of the monkeys! For today's teacher message, 5 of my little puppet friends help me read Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed. Today's suggested activity, inspired by the five little monkeys, is to incorporate emotional literacy into storytime with your Redbud. Emotional literacy is "the ability to identify, understand, and respond [...]
Hi families! We hope this email finds you well this Monday morning and that you were able to enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend. Morning meeting: Join Teacher Rachel for Share and Tell! If your child has any reactions or questions about what anyone shared, consider sending an email or letter to them to [...]
Hello Forest Friends! Teacher Madeleine here :) I was so happy to see some of your faces and chat last Thursday on zoom! Hope to see you again this Thursday at 4pm, this time led by Teachers Alicia, Eliza, and Charlie! Today I have a video of Lulu and I reading "Where the Wild Things [...]
Helloo Forest Families! Teacher Charlie here. Below is the text of "The Velveteen Rabbit," and myself reading the story. My intent was mostly to read a longer story that I liked, so that I could offer the sound of my voice regardless of whether kids want to listen to the narration itself. I know some [...]
Hi Juneberry Families! We've been enjoying seeing many of you, and are glad to keep finding supportive ways to connect. It was also great seeing some kids' writing samples on our zoom chats! If you'd like, this week try writing names of different plants (carrot, grass, tree, rose...) and have your child copy the letters. Perhaps draw or [...]
Hello families! News: Child Psychologist Dr. Stephen Glazier will be leading a webinar on practical parenting during COVID on Monday, May 4th at 8pm, and will include a talk for 45 minutes before Dr. Glazier opens up for questions. If you cannot attend, the webinar will also be taped. You can email Naima if you [...]
Hi families! It's already May -- how the time flies (and also very much doesn't fly) these days. Sending you happy spring thoughts for the thunderstorms and sunshine that are coming up this weekend. Here are our activities and videos for today: Singalong: Come and celebrate the CCS Spring Jubilee! (Teacher Naima reads “The Wind’s [...]
Good morning everyone! Teacher Message In today’s video, I read Where The Wild Things Are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=370-XpaYbXU At home, please join children and adults from CCS in celebrating the Spring Jubilee from home! Here’s Justine’s description from the Email Blast, in case you missed it: SPRING JUBILEE FRIDAY Our school’s annual Spring Jubilee is this [...]
Hey Forest Friends Fam, Building off of last week's activity of acting out the story, I decided to do something pretty silly and dress up as a character in a book. I decided to dress up as Pete the Cat and read Pete the Cat! Here's the video Before showing this to your children, I just [...]