Upcoming Dates & Annoucements:
- February 6th: 11:30 Dismissal, winter long weekend begins
- February 9th-10th: No School
- February 11th: Class Resume
This week our classroom was filled with powerful stories, thoughtful conversations, and clouds of every shape and size. Your children explored big ideas through books, art, math, and literacy—and they truly soared! Here’s a look at our magical week together:
🌟 Monday – Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We began the week by reading I Am Martin Luther King Jr. by Brad Meltzer. Through this story, we talked about kindness, fairness, and standing up for what is right. The children created skin-color self-portraits and shared their own “I dream…” ideas about how they can help make the world a better place. Their dreams were thoughtful, hopeful, and heartfelt.
Here are their dreams:
Wendell – “Everyone is polite all the time”
Lucas – “For more pets to have homes and not be in the animal shelters”
Daxton – “For everyone to be treated the same”
Emma – “Be kind to animals”
Noah – “For more people to have homes”
Parker – “More people to be grateful for their friends”
Sophia – “Be kind to nature”
Evelyn – “Helping people when they fall down”
Mylah – “Being kind to people we don’t know”
Moxley – “I wish for more people to not be hurt”
Bodhi – “Being kind to friends”
Alyx – “Being kind to people”
Kipton – “Be friends with everyone”
Rory – “Donate to people who don’t have homes”
Lola – “share things you have with people who don’t have things like you”
Hailey – “Helping people even if you don’t know them”
☁️ Tuesday – Cloud Feelings & Cloud Facts
On Tuesday, we met Misty in Misty the Cloud: A Very Stormy Cloud. Misty taught us that feelings matter—when her mood changed, her cloud grew bigger and stormier. This led to wonderful discussions about emotions and self-regulation.
We also read the informational book Know Your Clouds and discovered the main types of clouds: cumulus, stratus, and cirrus. The children loved learning that clouds live at different levels in the sky—ask your child how many “levels of clouds” there are! We wrapped up the provocations by creating and sketching different cloud types by looking at pictures. These sketches will come in handy for Thursday!
🎨 Wednesday – Sky Colors Everywhere
We read Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds, a beautiful story that shows how the sky is never just blue—it changes with time, weather, and mood. The children were inspired to paint their own sky scenes, including sunsets, sunrises, stormy skies, nighttime skies, and bright blue days. Each painting was unique and full of imagination.
✨ Thursday – Clouds Larger Than Life
On Thursday, we read Lizzy and the Cloud, the story of a girl who adopts a pet cloud—only to realize it keeps growing bigger and bigger! Just like Lizzy, we created clouds larger than life, painting them, adding glitter, and using loose-part materials to make them extra special. Our classroom truly felt like it was floating in the sky.
🔢 Math Magic
Our mathematicians practiced addition in many playful ways:
- Partnered addition using ten frames
- Dice addition games to make addition equations
- Finger counting strategies
- Rainbow buddy math 🌈 0-10
- Addition up to 10
- Handwriting numbers 1–20
📚 Phonics & Literacy
- Arden’s Group reviewed coding words and qu, and began reading simple sentences. They learned their first red word: “The.” Please be on the lookout for a red word book coming home soon!
- Miss Hanna’s Group has been mastering L blends and putting them into sentences. They’ve been working hard on fluency skills—especially with red words—and even made their own red word books with two words inside!
- Miss Lori’s Group reviewed the letter j and learned the letter v as well!
DAILY DISCOVERY & MORE FUN:
What a week! Stay warm and cozy as the “snowmageddon” storm is upon us!
Hanna & Arden