Jumping into January!

Hello hello! We have had an exciting couple of weeks back from break... Let's get right to it:

First of all, Happy 5th Birthday to Mark!!! We are very thankful for his book gift of Charlotte's Web :) which we will start reading after we finish with the biography of Dr. Maria Montessori.

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New lesson alert! Hot off the press... extending on our work with the map of the world, which the children absolutely adore, we have added a lesson to show them landmarks around the world; such as The Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, Big Ben, The Empire State Building, and many more. It is always off of the shelf and few things make me smile more than hearing one child tell another, "let's go find The Eiffel Tower!" on our map of the world on the wall. :)

Left: Miss Francina presenting the new work to the class. Right: Alexandra working with the new lesson.

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What time is it??? Pretty soon, a good chunk of the class will be able to tell you because there has been an explosion in the interest of telling time! Another lesson that is off the shelf all of the time and that we hope you're hearing about.

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Miss Elizabeth is back - yay!!! As a Mrs now, of course :) Here is the card that we made for her:

Thanks to Josie for writing the card. We think it came out beautifully!

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Un elefante se balanceaba sobre la tela de una araña... como veia que resistia, fue a llamar a otro elefante...

An elephant balanced on a spiderweb... when he saw that it didn't break, he called over another elephant.

A new game we've been playing in the classroom, which promotes movement, balance and coordination (but ssshhhhh.. no need to tell the children all that; it's just FUN!)

forgive the blurriness - it's hard for an elephant in motion to snap a decent shot ;)

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And, our customary collage of work for the week:

Top L: John Paul working on his Combinations of 10 with the colored bead material
Top R: Josie helps Benedict with flower arranging
Bottom L: Alyssa proudly showing off her very own map of the world!
Bottom R: A group of children using the hand bells that Genevieve brought for show and tell, with Miss Francina

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More excitement to come next time!

I know that last post I had said Mr. Gavin would be in, but he has had conflicts with his work schedule and has yet to come by yet; thanks to those who have brought donations for him; he is pretty confident he should be able to make it in next Monday with a parrot! If you haven't had a chance to bring in a contribution, please feel free to do so this week up 'til next Monday.

Also, we are looking to set up an aquarium in class with a turtle as a classroom pet for the kids! Mr. Gavin will also be the one helping us with this. Does anybody have an aquarium lying around they are looking to get rid of? Please let us know, we would love to take it off of your hands!!

Thanks :)