We Two

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• Friday, April 18- No session- Spring Long Weekend
• Friday, April 25- 11:00-12:15 Pm at Northern
• Friday, May 2- Our last session! We will have a special visit from the Oglebay Zoo to You program in the Community Room on our main campus from 10:00-11:15 am.

It is always so fun having our sessions on our main campus! I just love seeing our youngest learners exploring and playing in such close proximity to our oldest. The room was a buzz with the joy of Spring and Easter as we gathered together to explore lots of new materials. Beautiful watercolors were added to wooden bunny and flower pieces, as well as egg-shaped paper. Our sensory bin was well-visited again, this time with a few extra treasures hiding in the mix. A small world set-up brought color changing lights, bunnies, gnomes, and tiny homes together for some whimsical interactions. Our playdough and Model Magic was given even more life with more color and a plethora of loose parts. There were some very interesting sculptures made, including the jungle, a gym, and various cookies. The light table was adorned with lots of pom poms and translucent letters, helping us bring pops of color to black and white flowers andspelling our names. What is a day of Easter explorations without a plethora of eggs, baskets, bunnies, and chicks? There were squeals of excitement as eggs were popped open to reveal tiny treasures and baskets were filled with lots of goodies to cart around the space.

We finished with our story, The Great Eggscape by Jory John and our favorite songs, including a fabulous rendition of the ABCs. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and see you soon!

Miss Claire

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• Friday, April 11th- We Two will meet from 11:00-12:15 pm on our main campus at 8 Park Road. We will be in the Community Room, which is the big room right across from the playground.
• Friday, April 18th- No sessions- Spring Long Weekend

I was so happy to see everyone this week! I had missed being a part of all the amazing learning that happens when the kiddos come together. While the day was rainy and a bit gray, we had some cheery explorations happening in our space. Lots of marks were made on our playdough and Model Magic, turning them into some beautiful marbleized pieces. A sensory bin filled with bright green lentils and pearl couscous brought some fun experiences as the students filled eggs and dug for carrots, bunnies, and dinosaurs. We explored emotions this week as we made faces out of cork circles and loose parts. The mirrors and images of real child emotion helped us achieve that. Our light table was filled with all things shiny and reflective, including lights, beads, containers, and ribbon. The block area was busy with car activity, as well as train driving and block stacking. Strainers mixed with pipe cleaners got our little fingers working as the students pushed and twisted the fuzzy stems together. The area that filled the room with some fun giggles was our hanging hula hoops. Covered in plastic wrap, the students found the best ways to dap, swish, and glide paint on the vertical surface.

We finished with our story, The Color Monster by Anna Llenas and all of our favorite songs. We had lots of dancing this week and I just love seeing the students becoming more and more comfortable with each other.

Thank you for an amazing session and see you on campus!

Sincerely,

Miss Claire

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• Friday, March 28th– We will have a combined class with We Two from 10:00-11:15 am at Northern.

Boy, did I miss you all this week! I hope you enjoyed your time with Miss Stephanie and the provocations that were set up for your little learner. I loved seeing the children exploring with all of the color, making it really feel like springtime!

I am looking forward to our combined class next week and playing with you all again! I want to shout out a big thank you to Miss Stephanie for covering for me to day so that I could share my love of Reggio-inspired practices with some of our parents.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Claire

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• Friday, March 21st- We will meet together at Northern from 11:00-12:15 pm. Miss Stephanie will be covering this class.
• Friday, March 28th- We will have a combined session from 10:00-11:15 am at Northern.

What a special treat it was to have our fabulous We Two learners on our main campus today. They truly showed themselves as little explorers as they took advantage of the Preschool room and more importantly, the outdoor spaces. With the weather feeling like Spring, we had a science table full of things to investigate, including flowers, seashells, rocks, and pinecones. Chalk and oil pastels made for some interesting mark marking on black construction paper and various kinds of sand paper. The kiddos were amazing to see how the chalk color would change when they carefully dipped it in a cup of water. There was so much color mixing happening and boy, was it colorful! Our animals needed some saving from some tricky rubber bands, which were then used on our giant geoboards. The kitchen area in the Preschool classroom was buzzing with activity as ingredients were mixed together and ice cream was served. The gorgeous morning gave us a chance to explore the ampitheatre as well. There was tire jumping, ball throwing, stepping stone hopping, and of course, dirt hill sliding. It is a true sign of Spring when you see dirt and dust bunnies running around!

We gathered together for a yummy snack and Dr. Seuss’ Mr. Brown Can Moo. Can You? Our favorite songs were sung and lots of jumping was to be had.

I hope you all enjoy the weekend!

Miss Claire

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• Friday, March 7th– Spring Break- no sessions today
• Friday, March 14th– We Two will meet from 11:00 am-12:15 pm in the Preschool classroom on our main campus (8 Park Road). You can park at the colored shelter, walk up the colored stairs, and take a left at the top of the stairs. Follow the sidewalk and walk past the gym (it will be on your right). The Preschool room will be on the left right by the ampitheatre.

The sunshine and warmer weather brought some great energy today! There were lots of giggles, squeals of delight, and amazing learning happening. New blocks were introduced on the big rug, including foam ones, Bristle blocks, and Duplos. Several houses were made, including ones with doors and kitty cats. The playdough was mixed with our stamps and rollers, a pleasant invitation for making fun imprints. One table was transformed into a magnetic wonderland filled with cans, the Magna Tiles, our magnetic balls, the magnetic people, and pipe-cleaner filled bottles to use with our wands. Several sheets hanging from the ceiling mixed with the overhead projector and puppets brought out lots of fun shadow discoveries. The chunky Stabilo crayons and gel crayons welcomed lots of markings to a different kind of surface…mirrors! A crowd favorite this week was the indoor “playground” that included our tunnel, stepping stones, a mini-block mountain, and a trampoline. It was so sweet seeing the students sharing the new items and dreaming up some interesting scenarios. We had a rocket that made a trip to Mars, where the floor was lava and a mountain that as bravely climbed. We read a fun version of There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Kali Stileman and sang some of our favorites.

I hope you all have a great weekend and see you in a few weeks!

Miss Claire

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• Friday, February 28th– We will have our session at Northern from 11:00-12:15 pm
• Friday, March 7th– Spring Break- School is closed
• Friday, March 14th– We Two will be held from 11:00-12:15 pm on our main campus. More details to come!

What a cozy vibe we had this morning during our time together. All of the students seemed quite content moving freely from provocation to provocation, taking part in everything that was offered. Our rice bin became quite the tea party as black beans and our tea set items were added to the mix. Doilies, lace, large buttons, and translucent pattern blocks made for some interesting designs and patterns on the wall. A bonus was seeing the students trying to trace each line using markers on the large paper on the wall. A large collaborative canvas we had worked on last semester returned with an invitation to glue a variety of loose parts, including pom poms, yarn, buttons, colored papers, and felt shapes. Shaving cream covered an entire table and was scraped, painted, and rolled with a plethora of fun tools. Our dinosaurs stomped through our block area with our wood slices and greenery. Fluffy white “snow” was dripped and squirted with liquid watercolors, making for some fantastic color mixing. Lastly, a giant table and chair fort was created, offering a cozy space for the kiddos to hang out and chat with each other. I just loved hearing their sweet little conversations and imaginative play. We even had the Beanies Babies hanging out in a blanket hammock. We finished with our story, Pete the Cat’s Groovy Imagination and our favorite songs.

I hope you all have a great weekend. Stay healthy and warm!

Miss Claire

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• Friday, February 7th- no sessions- Winter Long Weekend
• Friday, February 14th- We will meet together at Northern during our normal time, 11:00-12:15 pm.

What a fun session we had today, filled with lots of good belly laughs, bright smiles, and sweet interactions. The students got right down to business, visiting each provocation with enthusiasm and gusto. We had cars zipping along the road, moving under tunnels and down some ramps. A large structure was also carefully constructed using a variety of our blocks and cans. The play dough smelled of yummy strawberries and helped us make delicious Valentine’s Day treats with our cookie cutters and sparkly hearts. Paint was swirled and dabbed on tin foil with the best painting tool ever, our hands! Large, squishy noodles were added to some water and stirred as a large portion of “soup”. Some of the kiddos enjoyed interchanging the heart-shaped doilies on the light table, marking with classic markers. Several foam cubes were slathered with a homemade puffy paint to make the start of some pretty awesome mini-cakes. We will be using those again next time. Our sensory bin was filled with Valentine’s Day goodies, including colored rice, confetti, rubber duckies, mini-cups, and champagne flutes. The most visited area of our classroom was definitely the cube as it was transformed into a “funhouse” using long streamers, twinkling lights, and hanging balloons. The belly laughs and smiles that filled that space were everything today and made for a great morning on such a rainy day.

We finished our time together identifying animals and making their sounds while reading our story, Snowflakes on Our Tongues by Mike Ornstein and singing our favorite tunes.

I hope you all have a great upcoming week and see you soon!

Miss Claire

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• Friday, January 24th is a combined session with Little Explorers. We will be at Northern from 10:00-11:15 am.

There was a beautiful calmness to our time together this week, one that was filled with lots of explorations and discoveries. The students were welcomed by an icy small world table, full of snowballs, blue waters, “ice” cup castles, and lots of animal figures. Our playdough was used to create a magical world full of ferocious dinosaurs colorful pebbles, proving to be a favorite of the kiddos. We had magnets galore with new magnetic people that were stuck to cans, Magna Tiles, magnetic wands, a fire grate, and of course each other! The kitchen was a buzz again as two of our friends made yummy pizza together. They even boxed it up and walked around the room sharing the food with some of their classmates. Many of the students gathered together on the rug to explore the cars and various kinds of blocks, making intricate scenes and scenarios. The light table was covered in a large plastic sheet, perfect for mark-making with our dry erase markers. A sensory tub full of “snow” surrounded a marble run that took some interesting turns and tumbles. The cube was hung with large coffee filters as some of the kiddos sprayed liquid watercolors all over. The mix of green, blue, purple, and red are absolutely gorgeous. They will definitely be used for something in our future sessions! We finished our time together by reading When the Snow is Deeper Than My Boots Are Tall by Jean Reidy and giving another fabulous rendition of Baby Shark.

I am so enjoying our time together and cannot wait to see what your children discover next week!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Claire