We even found a Garter snake!
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Welcome Sunshine
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Mother's Day
By now many of you have received a hand painted flower pot with a marigold seedling planted by the class, along with your child's handprint on a sheet of hand crafted paper, recycled by our class. Hope you enjoy their hard work, and thank you for all your hard work preparing your child to be an active member of our classroom community.
More pictures to come:)
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Earth Day Count Down
Along with keeping up with our academics we are cleaning up and preparing for Earth Day. April 22, between 9:30 and 10:30, Mrs. Kalkus and Mrs. Ross's class will be hosting our annual Earth Day planting extravaganza. On this morning the children will be free to chose between several activities, or just enjoy the great outdoors. We have a wonderful outdoor environment and we don,t take it for granted. If you have not signed up and find that you can make it, by all means please join us. Younger sibblings are welcome.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Spider mania
Our class just went crazy with learning about spiders and somehow I did not photograph many of the activities. The children began with the West African stories of Anansi. The third years reviewed what happened in the story then dug a little deeper to find what the story was really trying to tell us. This led to the comparison between arachnids and insects. Some children became excited to find that there are so many different kinds of spiders.
Exploring different kinds of spiders
Busy in the Garden
The children have begun working in the garden weeding and cleaning out the beds. The bulbs are coming up and we are preparing for our Earth Day extravaganza, Friday, April 22. Stay tuned for for opportunities to join us.
Preparing the garden boxes.
Experimental Tulip Garden
For the past 5 years here at Drew, we have participated in the Journey North tulip project. Every autumn we dig out the old tulips and plant new ones recording the dates on the Journey North website. We view the maps to see where the tulips are blooming and when all over
the continent. Check out the website at the Jorneynorth/tulips.org
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Join us for CETAbration. Wednesday, March 16th, from 6:00 - 7:30
Families are welcome to step into their child's world as we explore education through a different lense. Our exemplary project here at Drew is our CETA program "Changing Education Through the Arts".
Working closely with the Kennedy Center, teachers and staff are taught new strategies to help engage children through various artistic expressions. We would love to share with you some of the new applications we have learned this year. This is your opportunity to see it first hand and ask as many questions as you want. Hope to see you there.
Saturday, March 5, 2016
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