Category › Valerie and Leah

Dec 3

Dear Parents, It was our first full week of school in what seems like a very long time and the children came back from Thanksgiving Break raring to go. We have all new works and puzzles out in Practical Life, including holiday favorites such as Christmas tree decorating, “lighting” a menorah, and the dreidel game. [...]

April 8

Dear Parents, After beginning the week with gloomy April showers, we were finally able to fully welcome Spring with warmth and sunshine over the past couple of days. We sent home snow pants, winter boots, hats and mittens throughout the week, so just keep an eye on the weather forecast if you’d like to start [...]

March 18

Dear Parents, It was another short but busy week for us leading up to St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday. On Monday we started decorating our bench cubbies for the Gala coming up on April 1st. We are first painting wet-on-wet water color sheets and then cutting and pasting them to create animals, flowers and other [...]

March 14

Dear Parents, We have landed in on the Emerald Isle as the first stop of our European adventure and new Irish and St. Patrick’s Day works abound on our shelves. The children are having great fun measuring and weighing themselves and having their photos taken as they create European passports (one friend said, “I think [...]

Feb 11

Dear Parents, Wow, another full week of school without any snow disruptions!  Could Spring be looming around the corner?  On Monday we used our sense of smell to match different spices in a popular Sensorial lesson, then read the book “The Holes in Our Nose” by Genichiro Yagyu.  We even ventured into “booger” territory and [...]

January 28th Newsletter

Dear Parents, Finally!  A full week of school!   We were busy this past week with more new works.  We continued our sensorial journey with Leah’s homemade oobleck: cornstarch and water mixed in our water table for ooey gooey fun!  We made cheerio and pretzel necklaces for food prep, and for our Shoebox Science experiment [...]

January 28

Friday, January 28, 2011. Dear Parents, Finally! A full week of school! We were busy this past week with more new works. We continued our sensorial journey with Leah’s homemade oobleck: cornstarch and water mixed in our water table for ooey gooey fun! We made cheerio and pretzel necklaces for food prep, and for our [...]