Knitting mania spreads throughout our classrooms...

What better way is there to spend a cold winters day then to sit and knit among a circle of friends?

Finger knitting and loom knitting are fun ways to practice fine motor, math, and visual-perceptual skills while making hats, scarves, and more.

Isabel's Birthday Walk...

On this day in our universe in 2005, the day Isabel was born, the Earth was positioned in a special place on it's orbit around the sun. The Earth has now traveled around the sun six times and returned once again to that special place. Happy Birthday Isabel!

Coming to an end of a great 2011!

We've been so busy since our November break...

...here's what we've been up to:

Stella has been using our bead stairs to add.

Leo has been using the movable alphabet and the sandpaper letters.

Connor has been practicing writing his numerals on a dry erase template.

Noni and Kai have been enjoying all the new materials in the Practical Life area--practicing concentration, coordination, order, and independence.

Katie uses our bubble making material. First she pours the water...

...then she uses a wisk to create bubbles!

We made winter ornaments out of a delicious smelling dough. Here's the recipe:

1 cup applesauce

1 cup ground cloves(or cinnamon)

mix it all up until its a dough consistency

THAT'S IT!

Noni is decorating her ornament with shiny beads!

Connnor is using our sound material. He matches objects that have the first sound of each letter in the alphabet. This is great preparation for both reading and writing.

Three friends using language materials. All the materials meet the needs of where each child is at. Lucy is reading her word lists and then writing each word. Calea is practicing ending sounds with dry erase cards. Noni is developing her motor memory for each sound symbol (also using dry erase markers to trace).

Calea is matching objects to words with this language material.

Noni uses panda bears as counters.

We look forward to a wonderful 2012!!!

Sometimes we work together, sometimes we work alone

Toddler social development between the ages of 1 and 3 is about self awareness. It takes several years for children to recognize they are separate from other people with their own ways of thinking, feeling and behaving.

Working near friends....parallel play

Working alone and very focused on our tasks....