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Thursday, May 31st

5/31/2018

What a great last day! Although it was sprinkling when we started walking, the weather cleared up as we arrived at the park. Children had a great time eating pizza and popsicles and just being together. Many thanks to the adults who helped us get to the park and who attended this fun outdoor celebration. A special thank-you goes out to Suzanne and Susan for getting delicious pizza donated for our party, as well as water and popsicles.
Enjoy these images and we will see you tomorrow!

Wednesday, May 30th

5/30/2018

Many thanks to the families who joined us for the slide show this morning, and an extra-special thanks for the awesome collaborative gift! We loved reading the wishes the children had made and we started thinking about the best use of our own personal wishing rocks.
In the afternoon, we had some outdoor play with sewing on offer. After lunch, we worked on Caps' rally posters, completed puzzles and games, and played with salt dough! We ended the day with rainbow melon popsicles that were made yesterday! Enjoy these images and GO CAPS!

Tuesday, May 29th

5/29/2018

Photos from Today

Friday, May 25th

5/25/2018

"Every season is different" Lucy

This was our last KW Friday and our last field trip. During the week, children have made gifts for the ducks from clay and other natural materials. Today we hauled the gifts down to the canal to present them to the ducks. The canal looked so different! The plants in and along the canal had grown much taller. We walked to where we usually found ducks and ducklings, but saw only one solo duck. Still, we left our gifts along the banks of the canal, convinced that our ducks could find them. As we headed back, a woman along the canal told us that ducks could be found on the other side of the bridge. She was right! We saw our young ducks, some new baby ducklings, and even a baby goose! We were thrilled to see them, and to make wishes for them one last time. As Hadley said, "This has to go in the blog!" Enjoy these images and have a great long weekend!

Thursday, May 24th

5/24/2018

Today in Photos

Wednesday, May 23rd The Day in Photos

5/23/2018

A great day for clay and outdoor play!

Tuesday, May 22nd

5/22/2018

Today in Photos

Friday, May 18th

5/18/2018

What a fun Friday! We were so busy that we almost forgot to eat the popsicles that we made yesterday! Luckily, we got got to them right before dismissal. This morning, Tucker Room had set ups a restaurant, Knowing how much the children enjoyed working with the slat dough yesterday, we brought it back with the restaurant props. This resulted in children using their imaginations and collaboration capacities for an extended period of time. Here's a little bit of the ideas they shared as they worked with the dough:
   Grace - This restaurant makes peanut butter, and pizza, and tomatoes.
Vivienne - I'm making waffles.
   Max - This (dough) feels kind go funny.... and funky.
Hadley - (scooping the dough into a bowl) This is yogurt....no, ice cream. This is four scoops of ice cream.
Max - I'm making waffles.
Hugh - I'm making pizza. It takes a long time to make pizza.
Vivienne - We're a whole bakery.
   Prater - I'm making a cupcake.
   Hadley - I'm making unicorn glitter.
   Ellee - I'm making unicorn cookies. It's a special recipe. It's called "Unicorn Treats."

Children also worked with bamboo. We saw their collaborative nature in this experience as well. As children learned a new technique with the digital drawing tool, they were eager to share these new skills with their friends. Several children added text to their creations today. Mandalas, drawing, and books were also part of our afternoon. Enjoy these images and have a great weekend!

Thursday, May 17th

5/17/2018

Rain, Rain Go Away . . .

Despite the rainy weather outside this afternoon, we had a wonderfully fun and busy day in the indoor classroom. After lunch there were a variety of provocations on offer.
Knowing Carl's love of hockey and the Caps, friends were invited to create poster-size collages for game 3 tonight from newspaper clippings and printed images. Hopefully these will be the good luck they need for another win!

Some children painted the DAS clay duck eggs that were made on Tuesday.

Other friends made mango popsicles (to enjoy tomorrow as a Friday treat) and also concocted a batch of salt dough. They enjoyed using the dough for dramatic play today, pretending they were on the British Baking Show!

Wednesday, May 16th

5/16/2018

Today the KW children had a viewing of our first stop-motion movie, "The Girl-Power Duck." As she watched, Hadley repeatedly said, "How did you do that?" Tegan, Max, and Vivienne worked together today to create "The Duck Family." The story line goes something like this: a girl and boy duck get married and have a baby duck. The duck baby falls asleep for ten days, but is magically woken up by his mommy's kiss." As was mentioned yesterday, it takes a good deal of collaboration to work on these productions. Children develop a story line, set the scene with props and materials, move the "characters" through the story, and take photos. Today children also saw more of how it all comes together on the computer. Working together like this allows children to play to their strengths. For example, Max was very involved in set design today. We will continue to work on these stories until everyone has a chance to contribute to a "movie."

We also managed to get outside for awhile today, in spite of the rain. While outside, Cassius, Jay, and Carl formed a boy band that performed songs like "Mario," and "St. Albans." Willa and Prater used the animals to act out a versions of the lion king. There was a lot of "cooking," including making poisons for the teachers.... seems like that never gets old. Some sort of trap was created behind the bushes, and many tricks were performed on the climber. A good time was had by all!