Smart Apples

This week, we learned normally people use a clock to track time, but we can track time by using other ways. We introduce a visual schedule to help the children to track the time when they are at school. Also, we introduced a school family job. Every week the children will help with a school family job just like they help their family at home. At art table, the children decorated their family frame to add family pictures to our safe place, used geometric shapes to create beautiful pictures, they also painted in aluminum foil with white and blue paint and played with paly dough. We also began working on our program handwriting without tears, fine motor journal and math journal. Each week, the children will engage in a variety of activities that will help to learn or master an early learning skill. The children continued exploring the different learning centers and materials. Also, this week was our first family partnership day. The parents visited our classroom and engaged in different a...

This week our class created rules to keep us safe in the classroom. We learned that rules help us to keep our class clean and organized. We promise to follow our rules or commitment to be safe and be kind with all friends. The children kept pretending to cook their favorite meal and take care of their babies in housekeeping. At blocks, the children are using wooden and rainbow blocks to make structures. They are learning to take turns and play together. They are adding people and animals to their structures. At sensory table, the children used tongs to sort poms-poms by colors. We add the book “The Color Monster” we talked about the different colors and emotions, also the children played with water, measure cups and funnels. At music, the children are playing together and learning to stop and play. At art table, the children used Q-tips to paint, watercolors and stick paint. Also, they played with play dough to help with their fine motor. They children enjoyed creating amazing art. At ...