Up Close With Worms

On Friday we used a special microscope called a ProScope. You connect this to a computer and you can view what you are observing on the screen. Pre-K went a step further and we viewed what we were observing on the SMARTboard. And what we were observing was worms! Take a look at a few of the video clips we captured with the ProScope.

Our Final Penguin Project - Virtual Fact Book

Writers read their books

We have transitioned from writing in our journals to taking our stories across several pages. The girls are working at varying levels of book writing but at the end of each week we read finished books and books in progress to one another. Each pair finds a quiet space in the classroom to read their books.

Fiesta in TK

Penguin Parade

Penguin Party Activities

Penguin Dance

The Heart Course in PE

Classroom Fun

Sometimes technology just does not cooperate. Teresa and I have discovered the joy of catching video by using the imovie application on our laptops. This allows us to capture footage of play, journal time, and other activities without us physically holding a camera, freeing us up to work with the girls. This footage is helpful in so many ways. We can observe how your daughters are solving problems, resolving conflicts, creating masterpieces, and thinking out loud when we are not right by our side. This is incredibly helpful both for curriculum development as well as as another means for us to get to know and understand your daughter on an even deeper level. Well, as I earlier stated, sometimes technology just doesn't fully cooperate. We captured some of your daughters delighting in the challenge of using various cups to build structures. Hiccup #1, for some reason the sound was not captured. Hiccup #2, imovie would not allow me to edit the raw footage, Hiccup #3, When I uploaded the raw footage to blogger it is reading it on some sort of fast forward so seven minutes of footage is now a little more than two. Maybe this is all for the best in some way because the lack of sound protects your ears from the extremely high pitched shrieks of delight as structures were built and toppled and the fast forward helps you see the whole scenario quickly. I just had to put this up on the blog despite all of the problems because the joy in the girls is still so evident and the collaboration and problem solving of the exploration just epitomizes what you daughters are doing each day at Springside. Enjoy!

The Calm Down Song

Ask your daughter how calm bunny and impulsive puppy teach us how to manage our feelings.

Ice Day

Rockhopper Penguins

One of the species of penguins we have been studying are Rockhopper Penguins. We have read about them in books and on wikipedia and have compared them to other penguins. In this video you see us acting like Rockhopper Penguins, hopping from rock to rock. We are also working on number recognition and ordering of numbers. You can hear girls counting as they hop. We also played this song and froze when the music stopped. Then we identified what number we were on. As we cleaned up the "rocks" I sent girls to retrieve rocks with a certain number. We gained a ton of math practice while having fun being penguins.

What was my daughter doing at 9:10 on Monday Morning?

CHASS - Trees

Our first CHASS event. CHA Pre-k joined us to see what we had learned about trees.

CHASS - Bears

We headed over to CHA for our second Pre-k CHASS event. Here are a few moments of our morning together.

We love sign language

Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland fun was had in PE and a special sweet Wednesday Cafe was loved by all...

Make a Smilebox slideshow

We love snow

The girls were so happy that the sleet that had driven them in from the playground earlier turned to big fluffy snowflakes. We bundled up for EE and headed out into our woods for a beautiful walk.

Hmmm.....I wonder what she is doing?

Did you ever happen to wonder, "What is my daughter doing at school right now?" Well, here is a peek at what all of your daughters were doing at approximately 2:00 a few Wednesdays ago.