During this mini project, we spent time learning about the different food groups. We talked about foods we would like to try, but haven’t, and tried them during our snack time.  We sorted pictures from the food groups on the classroom wall. We read the book “Stone Soup” to learn even more about vegetables.  Students made a grocery list for our own stone soup.  They took turns cutting the different vegetables and helping to cook the soup.  We all agreed the best part of the day was getting to try our soup.  Check out the pictures from our soup making day! 

After our field trip, both AM and PM classes learned all about pumpkins.  We started by saying what we already knew about pumpkins.  We explored the insides, counted how many seeds were inside different pumpkins, and even had a taste test! The PM class  agreed that roasted pumpkin seeds were better then roasted pumpkin, even though some students enjoyed both. Check out a few pictures from the day! 

We have spent the first part of the school year learning all about friendship and what it means to be a good friend.  We have learned about green choices (keeping hands to ourselves, using kind words, ect) and red choices (hitting, yelling, ect) with David from "David goes to School".  We have learned that sharing is a great thing with Elephant and Piggie and that sometimes friends fight with Abel and Beatrice from "Are We Still Friends?".  We have practiced sharing, listening, and helping our friends when they have big feelings.  Check out some friendship pictures below!

We also had our first field tip in October! We went to a farm to learn about apples, pumpkins, and animals.  We enjoyed getting to have a wagon ride through the field and eat farm fresh apples for snack.  Then we got to feed some animals! See the field trip pictures below! 

Our last day of summer school was Friday August 12th. So we celebrated at Huset Park where there's a splash pad. Unfortunately, the weather was cloudy after the rain and very windy. The temperature was not warm either for kids to enjoy playing in the splash pad although some of them did! Nevertheless, we made the best of it and we had fun! Also, it's always good to see some alumni. Check out the pictures! 

Our classroom went to Children's Museum for a field trip on August 10th. We explored every floor and had tons of fun. We played at the community playground, check out Wallace and Gromit exhibition, created art, explored the space play place,  washed car, dodged lasers, climbed the wall and of course enjoyed over and over again the two stories slide. Check them out! 

This summer, we collaborated with Ready, Set, Smile, an organization who prepares and empowers all children in the community to care for their oral health through education and preventive services. Their trained community health workers came to our classroom to do an education about oral health with our children. They provided a 15-minute interactive presentation for all the children in the classroom featuring age-appropriate education, tooth brushing models, and take-home hygiene kits for every child. Then their dentist did a dental screening and cleaning. They also followed up with the parents after their visit. For more information, check out their website: readysetsmile.org 

When we read "Gingerbread Cowboy" the children seemed to be interested in more fairy tales stories so this summer, we explored more fairy tales stories. We started with the timeless fable of "The Wolf, The Duck & The Mouse," by Mac Barnett. We transformed our pretend center into a puppet show corner with dress up clothes, puppets and popcorn. We wrote a postcard from the belly of the wolf. We continued with another famous fairy tales of The Tortoise & The Hare. We read one fairy tales after another. We tried to create activities that help children learn more about the stories. Since it's summer, our sensory table was always filled with water for the children to play, from bubble bath, alphabet soup where children learn to spell, helped fairy tales characters escape their icy capture to counting fish and rubber ducks. Check out their play in the classroom, the art they created and the activities they participated in! 

To culminate our bakery project, we compiled the recipes that we tried from the book that we read and other extra recipes from those books. So we gave them out to parents which hopefully would try the recipes at home with their children! Check out the recipes! 

Right before we went to Summer Break, we went on a field trip to the zoo. We read a book called "Never Ever Shout in a Zoo" by Karma Wilson. We had animal wash station in our sensory table, we talked about our favorite animals and we drew some animals (well.. the other half of the animals!). 
At the zoo, we did an animal scavenger hunt and all the kids found all the animals! We also saw a seal show. The weather was nice and it was a really fun trip!