Good Morning Juneberry Families, I truly hope you are taking great care of yourself. I really enjoyed seeing so many of you last week. I hope you are enjoying your projects. Don't forget to share some pictures of your projects before, during or after the creation of it. I have attached a video about a little Elephant named Liza. She is [...]
Hi Redbud Families! In today's teacher message I noticed the raspberries growing in my garden. I discussed how I took care of the plant, which allowed it to grow and bear fruit that we can eat. https://youtu.be/RBV1qQnyfGU For the activity notice how the plants in your house or garden are growing and how you cared for [...]
Hello families! News: For those who have an instagram we suggest following @phillychildrensmovement for connection to actions that are child appropriate! Patterns Week 5: Focus for the week: Repeating a pattern to show change over time, accumulation (for example, growing plants, de-stringing beans). Activity: While engaging in building play, use language to notice the steps [...]
Hi Redbud Families, This week our curriculum will focus on how we take care of plants and how plants take care of us! In today’s teacher message, Fox and I talk about compost. I demonstrate how I add ingredients to my compost tumbler and feed the finished compost to my raspberry plants. At the end of [...]
Hey everyone! Just an update that our postcard banner will be hanging outside the school gate starting by noon today, ready for your art! Thanks all! Lee and Octavia
Hello Forest Families! Today I have an activity about libraries and book sorting that can also help us think about representation and support black authors. For the imaginative play portion of this activity, set up a space to be your library. You can make library cards, and set up your books to display. June and I [...]
Hello families! News: Check out this video from Sesame Street, where Common and Cobbie Calliet help calm Elmo by using belly breaths! Patterns Week 5: Repeating a pattern to show change over time, accumulation (for example, growing plants, de-stringing beans). Activity: On our Zoom call today, Teacher Maddie will be telling a pattern story using counting [...]
Hi families! We have transitioned to sending out our weekly activities on Sunday evening. Here is the document with our activities for this week. Morning meeting: Join Teacher Rachel for Share and Tell! One-on-ones: Today, we are continuing our Monday one-on-one calls -- you should have gotten an email yesterday with a Zoom link for [...]
Hello families, As promised, here is our “for parents” video outlining why we should be having hard conversations and tips on how to have them. We hope it is useful to help you think about the conversations you want to be having with your children and that it supports you in having those conversations. Please [...]
Hello families! News: We forgot to send an email this morning! Our apologies. We will still be meeting for our whole group Zoom call at noon and hope to see you there. Patterns Week 4: Focus for the week: Singing pattern songs and drawing children’s attention to the repeated refrain. Build patterns out of [...]