Friday, April 13, 2018

Week of 4/9-4/13

Braden playing with the animals

We are proud of our hard work!

Grace working on the green knobless cylinder

Kylie working on the yellow knobless cylinder

Harper "reading" books

I wonder where Lucas' train is headed??

Every Monday and Wednesday Mrs. Mosser keeps us moving! You can find us running, crawling, bear walking, rolling, jumping or having a catch!

We have been very busy practicing for the Early Childhood/K Celebration. All of the children are working so hard! Thank you for sending in the white t-shirts and to those who have RSVP and signed up to bring an item. If you have not done so, please click on the link to RSVP to the celebration as well as sign up for an item.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0844aea722a1f85-Olympic

Practicing using the microphone!

This week we went into the Innovation Lab instead of the lab coming to us! We got to explore the robots in water!

Reminders:

Please sign up for our EC/K celebration using the link above.

Please leave ALL toys at home.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Devenney

Friday, April 6, 2018

Welcome Back!

Hello! I hope everyone had a happy Easter and an enjoyable break. We are all happy to be back and get back into our classroom routine.

Back in the swing of things!

This week we have been talking about weather. We read "It looked Like Spilt Milk" by Charles G. Shaw. We talked about the different shapes of clouds we see in the sky. In Science, we created our own rain and clouds in a jar. We filled a jar with water, topped it off with shaving cream, and then added a few drops of blue food coloring. The food coloring traveled through the clouds (shaving cream) causing it to rain into our jar.

We loved making it rain but we sure hope Mr. Sun shows up soon!!!

This week you should have received an email regarding our EC/K celebration. Please see below as a friendly reminder.

Olympic Celebration Day

We are looking forward to sharing our Early Childhood/Kindergarten Celebration Day with you on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. This year, the theme will be the Olympics! We will be learning about the following countries and some popular Olympic sports: U.S.A., South Korea, Nigeria, Norway, Canada, Japan, Austria, and Germany. The children will be randomly assigned to a country.

. --- Please see the attached Sign-Up Genius link for more details:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0844aea722a1f85-olympic

A few reminders:

1. Please leave all toys home. We have plenty of items in our classroom to use.
2.Conferences are next Thursday evening and Friday morning. There is no school on Friday, 4/13.
3, Scholastic Book Club order forms went home. Please order by 4/12 if interested.
4. If you have not sent in your (PLAIN) white t-shirt yet, please do so ASAP.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Trying to catch a Leprechaun - Sink or Float - A new addition to our room

I hope everyone had the opportunity to see Seussical Jr last weekend. It was a great show and I am super proud of our older HCA students. Now that the show has ended, Nursery two was able to inherit Horton's tree for our reading corner. The kids were so excited to find a tree in our room on Monday morning!!!

Just waiting to add our grass! (green shag rug)

Trying to catch a Leprechaun!

Last week in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, we tried to catch a Leprechaun. First, we read a story on how to catch one. Next, we built a trap and then we waited!! The Leprechaun was to fast for our eyes however, he did leave us some gold :-)

Setting the trap.

We thought we caught one, boy were we surprised!

Sink or Float

In STEAM, we used Easter eggs to see what would sink and what would float. We discovered that an egg filled with air floated and egg filled with water sank to the bottom.

We continue to work hard during our Montessori time. We are learning new things and or expanding on old lessons.

You may have noticed your child's cup coming home full this week. On Monday, we began to drink from a regular cup at snack time. Everyone did a fantastic job! If your child does not stay for lunch, you no longer need to send in a sippy cup.

Have a wonderful Spring Break! (Hopefully Mother Nature remembers it is Spring!)

HCA will be closed Monday, March 26th to Monday, April 2nd.

Classes will resume Tuesday, April 3rd.

Happy Easter!

Mrs. Devenney

Friday, March 16, 2018

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

In STEAM with Mrs. Zwilling we read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. When we were finished reading, we used Play Doh to build a tree, and then added wooden letters to see how many it would take to topple our tree. Chicka chicka boom boom!

Working Together!

Teaching children to work together is an essential life skill. The ability to work together improves communication, collaboration, sharing and respecting others to name a few. At two and three years old we work on this by working together on lessons, building structures with blocks, or playing games that require turn taking.

Congratulations to the Keenan family on the birth of their baby girl- Dara Rose!!

Braden is a proud big brother:-)

Join us for HCA's performance of Seussical Jr. Our older students have worked so hard to give an amazing performance!   Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door.

Show times: Friday, March 16           7:30
                     Saturday, March 17       1:00 & 7:30

Have a great weekend!

Friday, March 2, 2018

Spirit Week at HCA!!!

Our week began as Superheroes!

We read the book We're All Wonders by RJ Palacio. We talked about manners and why it is important to be kind; we even added a few more hearts on our blooming kindness tree!

On Wednesday, we had our very on HCA Olympics! Nursery 2 represented Djibouti. For those of you who do not know, Djibouti is a country located in the horn of Africa. We participated in four Olympic events: Skiing, Skeleton, Hockey, and Curling.

Some of us were afraid to do the skeleton so Mrs. Devenney had to show them it was not scary!!!

Celebrating the 1920's

On Thursday, we celebrated life in the 1920's. We watched a Charlie Chaplin movie about a fireman and then a recreation of it done by the 8th grade. The kids really thought it was cool that the movie was black & white and had no sound!