Welcome back parents! We have been busy busy busy exploring the room, making new friends, and learning about being kind. The children have all seemed to find their favorite spots in the room and are getting comfortable with each other.
The children have been playing a lot of cooperative games like Dino Wars, Max, matching games, and drawing pictures of each other. They have been sharing and working together to achieve common goals and having fun while doing it!
They have spent lots of time in our different centers. Some favorite centers are the block area, the math and science area, dramatic play, the writing area, and the art center. They have observed gourds from our pumpkin patch, are building with tangrams and Dr. Drew Blocks, painting, making friend portraits and playing house and/or restaurant in dramatic play.
The children have been detectives on our campus cruises and have found different shapes in the buildings around campus. We have spent time talking about how our school is located on the University of Delaware Campus and how we are a part of that bigger community. Some shapes the children have found on campus are circles, rectangles, squares, arches, diamonds, and triangles.
Attached are pictures we have taken over these first weeks of school. Thank you for all of your support and cooperation!
Miss Katie, Miss Diane, Miss Allyson, Miss Brenna, and Miss Sarah
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- Joey decided to write his name in the tangrams
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- Esther building a city in her tangrams
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- Zachary made a pattern building out of the tangrams
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- Andrew and Melissa decided as a team on what picture to draw and then went to work!
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- Children sit around the table at center time and play a game of Dino War
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- Joey eating a snack he made for himself
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- Melissa reading a book during free centers
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- Andrew building a tower held up by 3 cylinders
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- Aditya’s tower
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- Tommy and Kate trying to save the animals from the hungry cat Max!
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- Emma using the blocks as domino’s
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- Some of the towers the children made with the Dr. Drew Blocks
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- Aditya’s model of “New York City”
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- Our class on a Campus Cruise for Shapes
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- Owen and his tower he built
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- Minjie painting a picture
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- Michael making a wall out of the cube blocks
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- Bella and Zachary practicing their sharing
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- Patrick working on a floor puzzle with a group of friends
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- Esther’s drawing of Bella
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- Aditya’s drawing of Esther
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- Tobias’ drawing of Minjie
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- Kate’s drawing of Tommy
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- Daniel’s drawing of Andrew
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- Zachary being the class detective!
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- Zachary browsing through a book about buildings
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- The line to get gas. What patience!
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- Daniel being a kind friend and assisting all of his friends in getting gas
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- Minjie looking at a nail through the magnifying glass
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- The end result of what happens when you take away one carpet square over various rounds of music. All the children found a way to share one carpet square!
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- Michael’s building that he balanced on top of 2 cylinders!
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- Maya spending some time reading a book before lunch
