Children's House II Communications Page

As many of you know Miss Tawnee had a baby boy named Avery Keller Glinski., both are doing very well. We have pictures of Avery on a postcard in the classroom photo album. Since Tawnee has left, I have continued giving assessment portfolios as well as presentations. It’s great getting to know each child more each day.

A number of nature items have visited our room such as wooly bear caterpillars, monarchs, agates, a bird house, squash, a slice of a tree and some leaves. Thank you for sending items for our science shelf for children to add more words to their vocabulary, look closer at the items, share what we know about each item (gain new information). Also, some children they have written the name of the item on paper and drawn it.

Our main grace and courtesy (social) lesson focused on volume control. Too many times it’s easy to talk louder than necessary not only across the room but up close to one another. We practiced the “just right “voice used when we are close to each other, which is the number 3 on our volume chart.

I enjoyed venturing out in nature with all day children taking part in activities outside near our school and in the school woods. Your child may have told you we first made a seeds sack (rice, pumpkin and popcorn seeds in an old nylon then I tied a little above the seeds), children played catch with it then we placed it in paint and playfully plopped it on paper from up high and down low as well as in a bouncy way. We also played a game where the “hound” had to catch the “fox.” We did a volume control game with our hands and also with rhythm sticks. Children’s favorite game was marking an X on each drawing they saw on our walk to Rockman’s Woods and on a path in Rockman’s Woods. Lastly, children drew items they viewed through their magnifier’s.


Ms. Cathie is showing the students how to make bread dough.

Natalee

Natalee is working on the pink tower.

Thorfin is working on the cylinder blocks.

old classroom photos