Hi Parents!  We had an epic day up at WW today, celebrating the X-Games and getting excited to go watch them.  We did an extreme obstacle course first thing this morning that included climbing, crawling and sledding!  It boys vs girls and it ended up a tie and we ran all around the school.  The kids got an X-Games coaster and a cool schedule for their effort.  Then we all went back out sledding after snack!  After lunch and some fun library stories like Flip and Flop, we let the kids have free play in the nooks while Luke slept.  It was fun, fun and more fun today, have a great evening!  Love, Leslee, Tina and Jenny

We had a fun day up at Wildwood today.  Every corner of the classroom was explored.  At the art table we made rice shakers and painted with water color. The dress up nook was visited by many girls and boys.  The magnatiles were out and made into roads for the cars to drive on.  Many of the manipulatives and building materials were used together too.  At circle time we watched a puppet show of Jack and the Beanstalk.  It was a real hit – everybody had fun yelling “Fe fi fo fum…”

After a delicious snack of english muffing and apples we went out to play in the snow and sled on the roof!  That hiking up the side of the building must have wore them out, because we had quite a few sleepers; Hunter, Valen, Sam, Thaxton, Payton, Gavin, Alexa, Annika, Sebastien, Brady, and Naya.

Thanks for sharing your darlings with us!

Love, Miss Tee, Miss Megan, and Miss Dawn

Hi Everyone,

What a fun snowy day. This morning we put black paper in the freezer, so when we get snow fall we can take it outside so we can see how each snowflake is as individual as people.

We broke into 3 groups; Miss Leslee’s group made book/stories with beginning middle and end.  Miss Jenny’s group did Handwriting Without Tears  using dry boards (Chalk boards with wet sponges). Miss Tina took a group on an outdoor adventure for a couple hours.

Our fun home activitie today is to use our memories, remember some of the things the kids did in the small groups. See how much information they remember!

A quick note, the teachers are trying on new names, Miss Tina, Miss Leslee and Miss Jenny. We asked the kids to help us remember our new names.

As usual we had a wonderful day with you kids!

What an active day we had!  This morning we got busy right away making oatmeal chocolate chip “candle stick” cookies.  At circle time we played a game where we took turn jumping over the candle stick, just like Jack Be Nimble.  Later in the morning Alexa’s dad and relatives came up to Wildwood to teach us about Chinese New Year.  He read The Great Race, and we made Chinese lanterns.  Then he made dumplings for snack, with oranges for good luck.  It really was a fun morning.

Outside we had a blast tromping around in the new fluffy snow.  We explored the woods too, finding huts and forts under the snowy branches.  After lunch we had quite a few nappers: AL, SS, VB, PR, JF, TT, SH, & GS.   (For security purposes we will use initials.)

Love, Miss Tee, Miss Megan and Miss Anna

PS.  Valentines Day is coming up!  Please send a cereal box to school with your child so we can decorate it and make Valentines mail boxes.

Dear Parents and friends today the Pre-K class had so much fun outside building a snow-fort in the front yard at Wildwood, we also built a small snowman. Some children went for a short hike to check on the ice sculpture that we built yesterday. I believe we could have stayed outside all day long it was so much fun. Indoors we were busy working on our alphabet recognition, and thinking of words that began with each letter. We also continued working on our dinosaur project, today we added brown paper for the skin and lots of little details. Once again it was such a magical day both indoors and outdoors.

Remember NO school Monday, this is a teacher inservice day. Have a wonderful weekend. Love Miss Jenny, Tina and Corina

Hi Parents!  This morning we heated up rocks and dropped them in the snow, watching them melt the snow.  Then we split up into 3 groups:  one group worked on our giant dinosaur, one played with flashlights and did traces of the flashlight characters and one group went on an outdoor adventure.  All groups had fun and learned alot!  After some library books and a short rest, the kids got out play dough, the cars and the big wooden trucks.  The group was extra happy today with lots of smiles and some made new friends! Have a good afternoon.  Love, Leslee, Jenny and Tina         P.S.  Remember no school on Monday for a teacher work day.

video of snowshoeing

Dear Parents, we had a wonderful time at North Star snowshoeing!!! Your kids were amazing, we toured around and even found a beautiful twisted dead tree that some kids were climbing on with show shoes, Wow how do they do that!

At rest we read the story of Togo, who was a sled dog who ran part of the way in the great 1925 Serum Run from Anchorage to Nenana to Nome. Very exciting story, we were just happy we didn’t have to do that trail on our snow shoes today.  A wonderful day!

Love Tina, Leslee, and Jenny.