🤎 All Things Beautiful Brown 🤎

Hi Magnolia Families! Welcome to our blog. These last few weeks in Magnolia have been filled with all kinds of books, projects, experiments and lessons about color. Primary colors…secondary colors…even tertiary colors! We discovered something very interesting: when you mix the three primary colors together you create Beautiful Brown! Check out some of the ways […]

Earth Day, A Readathon, and the Zoo!

Hi Magnolia Families, Our last few weeks have been filled with fun, learning and lots of sunshine! We’ve been eager to enjoy extra outside time these days and have lots to share about our learning.   Welcome to the Zoo You probably have heard that we’ve been turning our dramatic play corner into a zoo! […]

A Spring Sing

Hello Magnolia Families, Here’s a glimpse at our week back together after Spring Break. We’ve revealed our new dramatic play space to be… (drumroll please….) a ZOO! Over the next few weeks we’ll be using the corner to “feed animals”, pretend to be zookeepers, and learn all about animals and the environments they live in […]

Imagine a City

Imagine a City Magnolia has been busy all month imagining, planning, and constructing our very own city. Our work was guided by a few big questions: What is a city? What buildings are there and who lives in a city? What makes a city special? We started by making a list.   Friends shared their ideas […]

Nowruz and Welcoming Spring

Hello Families, We’ve made the most of our rainy days here in Magnolia. This month we have a special bonus blog post: all about our big city project! Please enjoy by clicking this link. Take a peek at some of the fun we’ve been having! Nowruz Mitra put together a beautiful presentation on Nowruz- the […]

March in Magnolia

Hello Magnolia Families! Here you’ll find what we’ve been busy working on here in the classroom. Wait until you see the city we’ve been creating! Reminder: Conferences are this Thursday and Friday. Childcare will be in Magnolia and required registration. If you have any questions about whether your child is registered for childcare, please contact […]

Friendship Day and a Walk

Hello Magnolia Families, Since our last week has been jam-packed with fun and we have February Break next week, we thought we’d share some highlights with you until our next blog. On Tuesday we celebrated Friendship Day by sharing friendship cards, making marbled painted hearts, creating a friendship potion with liquid watercolors, and more. Here […]

Imagine a city…

Hello Magnolia Families! Welcome to our February Blog! Last week we welcomed our new friend, Dylan to Magonlia. Dylan, we’re so glad you’ve joined us! Magnolia friends have had the opportunity to build in the block area for a while now and are ready for a new challenge. They have been interested in building tall […]

Get Up, Stand Up!

Hello Magnolia Families, Here in Magnolia we’ve been thinking and talking about the messages of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King led a movement of people that believed all people should have what they need, regardless of their skin color. In Dr. King’s time, there were laws against Black people that were unfair. […]

New Friends and Superpowers

Hello Magnolia Families, We’re so glad to welcome three new friends to Magnolia Classroom! Please welcome Robin, Ethan and Gus. Our new friends have been busy getting to know the classroom environment. We look forward to what’s in store in this new year! Around Magnolia This week we met hamilton the hound dog and learned […]