Smart Apples

This week we celebrated the Week of the young children. Our school organized different activities such as a special snack, delicious strawberries with chocolate chips, made a kite, planted flowers at the sensory garden, music class and took a special picture. All the activities were linked to a book. It was so much fun!  Also, we celebrated our learning about buildings.  At the sensory the children played with sand and building mold around the world. At art, the children used oil pastel. At pretend play they continued pretending to be a construction worker and use different tools. At blocks, they used a variety of blocks to create amazing structures. At literacy the children continued playing with letters, recognizing sound and alliteration! At math, they are counting 1:1 correspondence. Also, the children worked in small group. Each group decided what kind of building they wanted to create, work together and make sketches of their buildings. It was amazing to see ea...

This week was a short week, but it was full of fun and learning! We continued learning about buildings. We learned about things that happen inside of a building such grocery stores, schools, car wash, etc. At dramatic play, the children pretended to be an architect. They added different materials to their structures. At blocks the children continued building together and created amazing structures with a variety of blocks. At art table, the children played with Q-tips and drew simple geometric shapes to make a blueprint of a house. At science the children continued experimenting with coding and building with cups and using measuring tapes. At math, the children continued building with small blocks and taking turns in matching game. At sensory table, the children pretended to be a mason and they used small blocks and shaving cream to pretend to glue the blocks and build a structure. At literacy, we continued learning the letters and alliterations. The children loved to play with letters...