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A Seuss-tastic Week

March 6, 2016 By Blair Yohannan

Green Eggs and HamWe have had quite a Seuss-tastic week with the celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday! We had 1 to 2 parent readers each day who came to share a Seuss classic with the children. Additionally, we had works on the shelves to extend the theme of the week. There was an “at” word family language work, a one fish, two fish, goldfish addition counting work choice, and Mrs. Bateman created some beautiful Truffula trees with tWhisking green eggshe students!

The children also made green eggs after reading the classic Green Eggs and Ham! We made the eggs green by adding a spinach and milk mixture to the whisked eggs! We also used this activity as an opportunity to discuss the conversion of liquid to solid when the eggs cooked on the griddle. Most of the children tried them, but we all experienced what green eggs look like!

This week in the culture area of the classroom the “parts of an egg”, “life cycle of a chick” and “parts of a bird” works became available on the shelf. The students started receiving these lessons in preparation for the chick eggs which will arrive when we return from spring break! This is a very exciting time of year at CHE!

Some of the Dr. Seuss books we read this week at CHE:

  • Great Day for Up!
  • Horton Hears a Who
  • The Cat in the Hat
  • The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
  • Have I Ever Told You How Lucky You Are?
  • Dr. Seuss’ ABCs
  • The Foot BookLorax trees
  • Theres a Wocket in My Pocket
  • Green Eggs and Ham
  • Oh the Places You’ll Go
  • The Lorax,
  • There’s No Place Like Space
  • Hop on Pop!
    The Lorax is here

 

Filed Under: CHE Blog Tagged With: Dr. Seuss, practical life, The Lorax

Practical Life – Food Works

February 28, 2016 By Blair Yohannan

What a great week we had at Children’s House! In Practical Life we put out some new food works that the student’s couldn’t get their hands on fast enough! First was the trail mix work where the students counted out ten of three different items and then mixed them together and enjoyed! This will be fun to Food workschange out the food and keep it interesting for the children. We also put out cinnamon toast work which isolates the skills of cutting, spreading and pinching cinnamon with their pincer grip, the way they hold a pencil. One of my favorite aspects of our classroom will always be watching the children serve the food to their friends. It’s such a great opportunity to promote kindness, sharing, and peer interaction.

The students are working through the curriculum as we guide them towards new lessons. The children will repeat lessons or work choices until they have reached mastery. In many cases they cannot move forward if certain skills are not mastered such as number and letter recognition in math and language. If you see your child bringing home the same or similar works over and over, understand that this is part of the process towards mastering the lesson. We will continue to follow the child and challenge them to try new lessons as they become successful. Thank you so much for trusting us to provide the very best for your children.

Filed Under: CHE Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: food works, kindess, practical life

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