Our Classroom is a Family

                                   

Our classroom is beginning to gel as a community-and we are talking about how to help our classroom feel safe and friendly for everyone. 

We talked together about how our classroom is like a family, and there were many ideas:  "there's so many of us!" "we play very good" "there's grown ups" "we read books a lot""we play a lot" "we take care of each other"....as you can tell from these words the children are feeling comfortable and engaged in our space! 

When we asked the children if they had rules in their families, they said yes! We decided to create our own rules for our classroom. 

Here's what we came up with:

• hands to yourself
• be nice and kind
• be careful
• take care of yourself
• no jumping off the roof or out the windows (silly but true!)
• listen to grown ups (the rule that I added) 

Some of the language that we use for listening includes "listening ears" and "listening lama" which is a hand signal that your child can show you. Try it at home !

We are talking about colors and experimenting with color mixing using primary colors. The children used eyedroppers and so practiced their fine motor skills while

dropping colors to mix together. 

There are rainbows on the rug! Where are they coming from? Some of us have located the prisms!

We share snack time and take a mask break sitting on yoga mats or at the table. 

Our bins are available for any projects with cutting and drawing and gluing stacks of paper together (check the backpacks!).

We love to get outside!

Lots of action everywhere!

We went on a rainbow hike and found something for every color of the rainbow! 

There was a lot to look at closely. A milkweed pod had a little red beetle in it!

Our days are full at school! 

Until Next Time,

Michele