Wildwood School (Aspen, Colorado)

Hello Families,

Today we had a small class as a lot of our friends are vacationing. We colored in paper and then made them into boats. We then walked down to the stream by the beach, floated them down and ran along side them. They looked very colorful and floated very fast though a few did get water logged and sank! We then picked them all up and took them back to school. We saw so many butterflies and right before we left we saw two deer in the front yard and we got to stand pretty close to them before they jumped over our fence into the woods. During the morning we also played with animals and we brought out a box of new animals too. We played with playdough, in the dress-up nook and watered our seedlings.

Snacks: this morning was watermelon and crackers and this afternoon we are having fruit pops!

Nappers: WP and KR

This afternoon we filled the sensory table with pink water and bubbles and played out in the front yard, jumping off the big rock.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Love Miss Anna and Miss Megan

Hi Everyone,     We took our adventure on the Magic School Bus to Mongolia!! We visited  Tina’s Yurt/Ger, because we visited Mogolia we call it a Ger, we had tea and water. We  also read a story from that region, then we walked around my yard and visited my tiny grow dome and planted some sweet pea seeds.  How fun to have the kids do a home visit.  Here are some pictures from our adventure.   Love Miss Tina, Miss Corina and Miss Jenny.

Dear parents and friends, today the Pre-k dome celebrated the month of the young child with the children’s parade through downtown Aspen, We returned to school for fun in the backyard making sand castles. This weeks share time has been packed with new and interesting things from sharing our older brothers to family pets, vacation lists, toys, and old casts from broken bones wow! The afternoon was spent in the front yard letting our beautiful butterflies go free  in the warm sunshine.  What a great day!

Enjoy your evening. Love Miss Jenny. Miss Tina and Miss Leslee.

This morning we were a part of the annual Kids First Children’s Parade.  What a lovely day to march through town waving at all our friends and family.  We marched from Boogies to the fountain, where we enjoyed a cookie and some water. Back up at Wildwood we stayed outside to ride bikes, dig in the sand, climb the monkey bars, and make mud pies.  This afternoon we had quite a few nappers; TT, SS, PR, BK, SH, AM, AL, VB, AY & JH.

Good afternoon,

Today, we had a really fun outdoor day. We started our morning outside, watering our seedlings, then we filled the sensory table with blue and gold water and had lots of fun, mixing and pouring things in there, then we painted the sidewalks with our names and drew each other, we also jumped off the big rock and built Tee pee’s with all the big sticks we have collected. Inside some of us dressed up, played with play dough and built car tracks, played with musical instruments and ran a cafe in our little kitchen. We then went to the North Star beach and had a blast looking for all different types of rocks…we found small and medium ones, orange, black, brown, sparkly and white ones. We all loved putting our toes in the water and building lots of sand castles and rivers.

Snacks: this morning yoghurt and strawberries and this afternoon we had pretzels and apples.

Nappers: several of us fell asleep during the first story as we had a big morning. BK, KR, HM, AM, JH, CF, WP, CT, LH, AL, PR.

This afternoon we looked at the rocks we collected and played out in the grow dome and in the sand.

Love Miss Anna, Miss Megan and Miss Tee

Hi Everyone,

Today we had a special guest that sang us great music like Puff The Magic Dragon, and a song about his Teddy Bear. We also talked about acoustics and how sound bounces off walls, like in our dome! We’ve been doing paintings to dress up our walls and practicing one of our songs for the end of the year party. Steve Ferry was our musician today, he will also play at our end of the year party, live music we’re moving up in the world.   Thanks Miss Tina, Miss Leslee, and Miss Jenny

Good afternoon families, today we went on a field trip to Ute Park. Our valley’s first human inhabitants were the Ute indians. There are tee-pees there made of sticks. We crawled through the tunnel,  climbed on the jungle gym, and slid down the slides. It is such good practice for our muscles to try new climbing structures and to be challenged physically. The children made up their own dramatic game involving the tee-pees made of branches and a set of rocks they were climbing. These types of creative, improvised, outdoors games are ways that the children practice their social skills as well as develop a relationship with nature. Morning snack was bagels with cream cheese and raisins. Afternoon snack was sesame crackers with apples. Nappers were: AL, BK, LH, CFT, TT, AY, JF, PR.  In the afternoon we played in the back yard and played some drums, too. Please remember to fill out and return your Wildwood surveys. Thank you for a wonderful  day with your amazing children! Love, Miss Anna, Miss Tee and Miss Megan

Hi Families!  At circle this morning, we made a map from WW to my house, with some familiar places along the way like the gondola and McDonald’s, then we got on the bus and went to my house to play!  We had fun playing with all the legos, the drum set, the rope swing, the train set, the cash register and the way too many other toys at my house.  After popsicles and lemonade, we went to Koch Park for volleyball and sandcastles.  Sounds pretty good right?  Back at school, we read library books about reading and of course Scaredy Squirrel and the Pigeon, then went back outside to run and bike.  Really awesome day!  Don’t forget to get your surveys done for Kindergarten.  After tomorrow, could you please take finished surveys up to AES yourself as we will turn in ours by tomorrow afternoon.   Love, Miss Leslee, Tina and Jenny

We had such fun at the beach this morning.  We found a few insects; butterflies, moths, water striders, whirly-gig beetles, ants, flies, and a spider.  The children threw lots of rocks in the water, and we played a few rounds of duck duck goose.  We hiked beyond the Wildwood beach to a secret beach where we threw more rocks and had fun jumping over a trickeling stream.  We were outside all morning enjoying this beautiful day.  We harvested a few strawberries from the growdome, and ate them after lunch.  Nappers include JH, BK, SS, HM, AL, CF, EH & WP.

Hi Parents and Families,  A local cowboy came up to WW today and read us a great story called Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon.  He talked about his horses and showed up how to rope.  The story is about a little girl who was different looking and sounding and how she believed in herself.  He did a great job and the kids had awesome questions for him.  We played hard outside for a lot of the day, painting outside and getting ready for the end of the year!  No school tomorrow for conferences and meetings so have a great long weekend.  Love,  Miss Leslee, Jenny and Tina