Happy Holidays Mariposa ! Mariposa children have been hard at work with cooking and crafting these past few weeks. Cooking and Birthdays: We enjoyed two birthday circles, celebrating Nathan’s birthday and Christin’s birthday! We made ants on a log and had tons of fun using the spiral apple peeler. We also baked apple crumble for […]
Greetings Mariposa, Thank you for being patient while we had some technical difficulties with this blog. Thank you to Zuri’s family for coming in and celebrating Diwali with us. We did lots of sensory projects ranging from cooking jello to doing art using sand, glue and watercolors. We made oobleck and many of the children […]
H is for “Halloween” “House” and “Hedgehogs When diving into our sound study for the letter “H” the children engaged in a variety of activities involving literacy, art, and scientific thinking. We read the book If I Built a House by Chris Van Dusen and invited the children to make a blue print of a […]
Greetings Mariposa Families ! It’s finally feeling a little more like fall and we have been hard at work continuing to learn about pumpkins and their lifecycles, and creating fall art that range from haunted houses with Julianne, to collaborative class room canvases and ghosts . Letter F : In studying the letter F we […]
Dragons and Dinosaurs When studying the sound and letter “D” we dove into the exciting world of dragons and dinosaurs. After reading the story Raising Dragons by Jerdine Nolen, the children were asked a series of questions about their own imaginative dragon. This activity was a creative writing process for preschoolers. We collaborated with our […]
Hello Mariposa Families, We would like to thank all of you for joining us for Back To School Night. If there is anything you’d like to follow up, on please let us know. These past few weeks we have been continuing getting to know each other and working collaboratively on various projects and activities. We […]
Welcome Butterflies! Note about Blogs: A blog with be posted about every two weeks and will spotlight something special happening in the classroom. This first blog will highlight our daily schedule. Going forward, spotlights might include topics like: science in preschool, Montessori math, or sound studies. I hope you enjoy this first spotlight! Greeting Mariposa […]
Greetings, Mariposa families! I’m writing to you from the Fairy House Workshop, where your children are in the midst of building charming homes for their magical friends. First they drew architectural plans for their buildings. This week they’re using moss, clay, shells, twigs, pebbles, and other natural materials to bring their drawings to life, and […]
Science The past few weeks we have been focusing on two exciting themes, science and magic. Each week the children enjoy a new science experiment that is available for them to explore on their own as a shelf work. They have been erupting volcanoes with baking soda and vinegar, making natural dyes out of flower […]
Music plays a big role in our daily routines in Mariposa. In fact, one of our first signals of the day is the song “Come Join the Circle.” We love the peaceful and intentional tone that the song sets for our first gathering. In song, we wish each other “Good Morning to You” and then […]
