Early School Sea Turtles

Welcome Early School Families!

The first five years of a child’s life are important in shaping their cognitive development, social skills, and sense of place in the world. We believe it is an honor and privilege to be able to partner with you in this incredible task of caring for, teaching, and guiding your child. This year your child will grow in leaps and bounds, and we hope that this blog will be a snapshot into the classroom where aspects of this growth will take place. Thank you for entrusting us with your child’s care and wellbeing. We know this year will be a wonderful blessing, and are excited to get to know our amazing little sea turtles and families!

Monday, November 12, 2012

A Day at the Pumpkin Patch and Other October Adventures

Going to the pumpkin patch is one of our school's most loved traditions.

I hope you and your little one enjoyed this special day surrounded by autumn's beautiful harvest.

Come and see what we've been doing in the classroom...

"A B" patterning with green and red apples.

Building with blocks is important in developing our math and science skills.

Sometimes we like to pretend we are at our "office", just like mommy or daddy.

Learning about and creating bats was a lot of fun this October.

Mr. Markus even brought in a real live bat for us to see. He found the bat when he was opening the umbrellas out in the courtyard, and was able to put it in a jar so we could take a look. Sorry there is no pictures of the real bat, but these paper ones sure are cute!

"I see two spiders on this page!"

Working on our Counting Spiders books.

We learned spiders have eight legs, and that many of them also have eight eyes.

How many legs and eyes does your spider have?

Painting our beautiful autumn trees.

Sorting our letters into the matching color boxes takes teamwork.

We are learning more about spiders, and we are working hard on listening and following the directions our books (and the teacher) tell us to do. We are fabulous students!