Let us take you on a tour...

Happy Halloween, Mystery Reader

Before a Mystery Reader joins us we give the children "clues" and they get to ask us questions about the reader to solve "the mystery". This morning Cape's mom, LouLou, joined us and read spook-tacular books. She read "Little Blue Truck Halloween" by Alice Schertle and "Happy Halloween, Curious George" by H. A. Rey. Cape was very excited to hear some of his favorite stories in the classroom. LouLou, thank you for a  fa-boo-lous story time! Everyone loved sharing about their pumpkins at home as well. 

What size, color or shape are they? Did you carve or decorate them?

​We started and also ended our Thursday at
school by reading stories. ​
Before we went downstairs for dismissal we read the book "Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site" by Sherri Duskey Rinker

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Let us take you on a tour

Today's tour of the school building will take you from the Brown Room, past classrooms and bathrooms, down the stairs, into the kitchen, through Blake Hall, to the church, up the stairs to Molly's office and into the bell tower. WOW!  So let's begin...

Looking into Tucker Room A
Daniel: Yes, they are really good at building ​(looking at their construction table)

Daniel: There is two bathrooms.
Bea: The teacher's bathroom.

From the hallway we went down the "Scary Stairs" ...

Daniel: What's down there, let's see.

​Bea: (to Finlay and Daniel) I want you guys to come up. Cause I'm worried. Because the lots of stairs.

​Daniel: I can hold the railing. It's not really scary. It's not a race. 

Bea: I don't want to be i the dark. I just want to be in light. I'm really nervous when I don't see him. (about Daniel and Finlay which are at the bottom of the staircase)

Finlay: (Counting steps) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16.

​In the kitchen the children discovered a hole in the floor. They learned about what a drain is for and moved on...

... to Blake Hall

Daniel: This is where we go outside! The black carpet when we go outside.

Finlay: This is when we come to school.

Bea: I'm gonna write Blake Hall down (on her clipboard)

In the Atrium the children found a familiar symbol:

Daniel: Whoaaa!! We found it!
2 gigantic ones. There's two symbols of them. That one and ours upstairs.

Bea: I found it ! (the Imagination Brain at the bottom of the stairs)

When we entered the church for the first time it was dark.

Daniel: I hear your voice, Sam. (commenting on a noticeable echo)

Finlay: Let's get out. I think someone's in here... someone's hiding in here.
Sam: Have you been inside the church where mommy works?
Finlay: Yeah. It's different. Let's get out of here.


​We made our way up the stairs to the "balcony", which is right in front of Molly's office. She offered us to turn on the lights in the church so we could explore it again.

The last stop on our tour was the bell tower. We hear the bells in the Brown Room every day during snack time and were curious about where exactly they are. 

Finlay: Molly, what's up there?
Bea: I want to see.


​After we explored a fairly dusty staircase...

Daniel: That was yucky. The rain made it yucky.
Bea: (to Jessica) I was a little nervous, but I was safe with all my friends.

Every day the Brown Room children show us how curious, brave,   enthusiastic, caring, adventurous, considerate, and confident they are.
It is a true joy for us to be their teachers!
Thank you!


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