Today we stayed warm with a running interval ladder: Walk 1 minute, run 30 sec., walk 1 minute, run 1 minute, walk 1 minute, run 1:30 sec., and then descended. This was roughly 10 minutes of movement, and a great
Writing Workshop: Catch-up Day
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Science: Secrets of Winter
Today turned out to be wonderful but not at all what I planned 😀 We started off by reading Secrets of Winter by Carron Brown. It’s a super fun book where you use a flashlight to show animals in the winter.
Gym: Rainbow Review
Today we did a rainbow review of everything we’ve practiced so far and built our burpees. There were stations around the grove, one for each color of the rainbow. Each station included a movement opportunity: breathwork, dynamic stretches, 30 second
Art/Drama: Vanishing Point
Today we explored perspectives in drawing using the vanishing point. They first drew a dot anywhere on their paper. They then drew straight lines from that dot. Using those lines, they each created a perspective of a setting.The kids got really
Writing Workshop: Persuasive Essays
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Math/Science: More Math Games
Today we continued with math games… Sleeping Queens, Zeus on the Loose, Sushi Go, Tenzies, and Race to the Treasure. I asked them to start with a different game than they played last time, and they rolled with my request
Nature Study: Four Senses Nature Walk
Last week we had a fun exploratory nature walk — we stopped several times and checked our 4 senses (we left out “taste” since we established no one in our group is a wild mushroom or berry expert). In addition to stopping
Art/Drama: Penguin Problems
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STEM: Pascal’s Triangle
We had some fun yesterday with Pascal’s triangle and finding patterns. All of the kids seemed to catch on to the patterning and then predicting what would be in the empty boxes. So then we messed with it and changed