Rock Bridge High School students give gifts to elementary kids in need
Nick Schnelle/Tribune |
| Working on matching number symbals with units, also ordering numbers |
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| My big Zach came today & brought some legos! Zach D. has been requesting that he come, and also to bring legos - so here he is :0) They were both a bit hit! |
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| Lots of cooperative play as everyone is really getting to know each other better - love it :0) |
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| Ruth came to visit today for the first time & did great! She is Silas's little sister...and we were so glad to have Silas back for our last day, too - we've missed him! |
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| Time to feed the birds - these are pinecones smeared in peanut butter & rolled in bird seed - Josie's has already been devoured by the birds at our house! |
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| Gigi counting who is here today - we sing a little song at circle time as we count how many boys we have, girls, all together, etc. Basic math & graphing. |
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| Rachel & Mandolin |
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| Everyone loved sound matching bingo - and these 3 played game after game after game, taking turns being the 'caller' |
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| Ruth working with the geoboards |
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| A trip to the free paper place over Thanksgiving break yielded some great new paper for painting! |
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| All dressed up! |
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| Just enough snow left for snowballs |
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| the girls were so busy playing today I tried letting them stay inside w/ Abbie - they were still playing bingo! |
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| It's Isaac the snow angel! |
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| Ezra getting into the block play - and with a new haircut! |
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| These two work so well together :0) |
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| The mermaids are being attacked by a fierce tiger!! Thank you to Rachel & Isaac for sharing more dress ups! |
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| Ian & his sisters Emmaline & Corin came to visit this week! |
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| making stained glass with colored leaves |
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| Emmaline squishes playdough while Mandolin works on her stained glass |
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| Zach made a cool cave for his dinosaur - with some soldiers to guard it |
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| May I take your order? |
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| leaves blowing in the wind |
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| mmmm, turkey sandwiches for lunch! Just right for the week after Thanksgiving :0) |
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| Ella has her first loose tooth...can you tell? |
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| Next mitten coming up for Rachel! |
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| Lots of large branches were down near the creek this week - and we had some awesome workers who just started doing clean up! I made a comment about how strong they were - and Zach said, "That's called teamwork!" |
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| That's Corin (Ian & Emmaline's big sis, age 13) helping with that huge branch |
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| The new playground has been ordered - but these guys can find fun anywhere! There was a little talk of the fulcrum under the teeter totter but mostly just lots of fun ;0) |
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| It was just starting to spit rain when it started snowing cattail seeds! |
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| Welcome to Jude Matthias! He was born the day before Thanksgiving :0) |
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| Big brother Silas & big sister Ruthie! Hopefully they will be able to join us this coming week for our last day of prek in 2013! |
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| Miss Abbie, Josie & Laura painting a tree on our wall |
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| Zach drawing a tree on our chalkboard |
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| Grrrr...Isaac! |
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| partner painting with Rachel & Gigi |
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| Zach's tree |
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| watercoloring some leaves that say what we're thankful for |
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| soaking the watercolor paper for wet on wet painting |
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| Ben is so much like his big sister Miss Abbie! She always covered her paper with paint - no white showing! |
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| mixing some color into our new playdough |
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| our finished tree! |
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| Josie requested we make volcanoes today - so out came the baking soda & vinegar & dinosaurs! |
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| everyone who wanted a turn got to make 'hot' lava - we'll have to try the diet pepsi & menthos version for a larger explosion ;0) |
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| Isaac & Zach have been loving the blocks the last couple of weeks - working so well together! |
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| Deja vu for me: a former student reading to Josie....and Laura was Josie's age when I last had her at preschool.... |
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| a bit of Montessori! Gigi got all the numbers in order & then used the Math U See counters underneath |
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| Rachel working on her mitten some more |
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| Josie & Gigi really got into drawing this week - Gigi did great with the step by step pictures! |
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| Done! |
