Making Egg Carton Caterpillars

Cognitive Games

Working together to figure out how things fit together. 

 Sorting jelly beans. 

 Matching top and bottoms.

Countng to 20.

 Counting pennies.

Matching number sets with number symbols. 

Looking Back At Our Speakers Of The Week

Building With Blocks Is More Than Just Play

For engaging children's hands, minds, and imaginations, no tool surpasses blocks.  Engrossed in building with blocks, the child is a mathematician, scientist, architect, stage designer, and story teller.  As children build together, they stretch and grow as problem solvers,and collaborators.  

Potential Contributions to Early Childhood Learning

Social Emotional Growth:  Feelings of competence, cooperation, clean up, respect for the work of others, autonomy, and initiative

Science:  Trial and error, inductive thinking, discovery, inclined plane ramps, interaction of forces, balance, weight, stability, & gravity.  Physical development:  Visual perception, eye-hand coordination, hand manipulation. Mathematics:  Patterns, shape, symmetry, mapping, inequality of size, (more than and less than). classification, fractions, depth, width, height, length, area, & measurement. Language Arts:  Planning of building, naming of building, function of building, stories about building, exchange of ideas, questions and concepts,  vocabulary development.

Upcoming Field Trip

We are scheduled to visit the Curious Kids Discovery Zone in St. Joseph Michigan in two weeks on Friday April 27th.  This is a trip that everyone is welcome to attend even if you don't usually come to school on a Friday.  Permission slips will be sent home this week.   This trip is about 50 minutes from school so we would like to plan on having an early lunch on the Silver Beach before heading on back to school. We will probably be returning to school by 12:00.  So bring a sack lunch and come enjoy the day with us. 
We will also be going on a carousel ride.