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We're all together!
Its hard to believe this is our first week! We are off to a great start! A major focus in the beginning of the year are the routines in...
Sarah Notaro
Sep 15, 20232 min read
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Story Workshop
Over the course of the last two weeks we have began working on our story workshop. To develop our stories we started off our theme with...
Sarah Notaro
May 25, 20232 min read
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Plants and Seeds
Last week we talked about what plants need to grow and what a seed needs to germinate. This week we have been able to see the fruits of...
Sarah Notaro
May 12, 20232 min read
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Week of The Young Child
The week before break we were lucky enough to celebrate Week of The Young Child! As an educator of young children its always a time to...
Sarah Notaro
Apr 21, 20232 min read
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Veterinarians and zookeepers!
The last few weeks we've focused our attention on caring for animals. This investigation started with our own classroom animal figures...
Sarah Notaro
Mar 31, 20232 min read
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Self Portraits
In the weeks following our shapes study we dove into a mini study about our own identities. Looking at the things that made us...
Sarah Notaro
Mar 24, 20231 min read
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Animal Hospital
We’ve started an investigation into caring for animals! A few weeks ago our animal figures were wrapped in colorful tape, as children...
Sarah Notaro
Mar 17, 20231 min read
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RAAD
Today we celebrated Read Across America Day! Please enjoy some pictures of the day! In the short week we've also spent time working on...
Sarah Notaro
Mar 3, 20231 min read
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Our busy few weeks!
Following an emergent curriculum, there are busy weeks, and slower weeks. The last few weeks have been busy busy weeks!! Last week it...
Sarah Notaro
Feb 12, 20232 min read
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Winter Wonderland
The last few weeks have been a blur, between holidays, snow days and delays sometimes I wonder if we’re coming or going! We shifted our...
Sarah Notaro
Jan 27, 20231 min read
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Back at it!
It’s been a lovely short (and rainy) week back! The classroom is filled with play and you can just tell the children missed each other...
Sarah Notaro
Jan 6, 20231 min read
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Gingerbread Friends
To culminate our unit of cooking and food, and as a gift to our families, we have made our own bees wax wraps! The last few weeks have...
Sarah Notaro
Dec 20, 20222 min read
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Investigation of lights and shadows
The main project we are working on this week, we will have to keep under wraps until our winter break. This project will culminate our...
Sarah Notaro
Dec 9, 20221 min read
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Stone Soup
We have continued our investigation of food and cooking, this week reading the story Stone soup by Marcia Brown, which is about three...
Sarah Notaro
Dec 2, 20222 min read
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Our week 4/14 -4/18
Sunday was world kindness day and we took some time on Monday to talk about kindness. I asked the class "what does kindness mean?" We...
Sarah Notaro
Nov 18, 20222 min read
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Little Chefs
There has been a lot happening these last few weeks of school. This time of the year always feels so busy and with things happening...
Sarah Notaro
Nov 10, 20222 min read
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Our week 10/17-10/21
This past week we spent some time exploring apples, as part of our fall exploration. In the past few weeks many children have visited...
Sarah Notaro
Oct 23, 20222 min read
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A preschooler is patient...
We have been patiently awaiting the transformation of our monarch caterpillars. We have watched them transform from small caterpillars to...
Sarah Notaro
Oct 16, 20222 min read
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Monarchs and Milkweed
This week flew by! Last week we welcomed a handful of 1st instar monarch caterpillars (the smallest stage of them all.) To care foe...
Sarah Notaro
Sep 30, 20222 min read
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Exploring Color
In The first 6 weeks of school, the main priority in the classroom is building our classroom community. We stick to our schedule which...
Sarah Notaro
Sep 23, 20222 min read
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