Let's Build Together

 It's Demo Day! This week we focused on building! We loved exploring different building materials and using our problem and solution thinking skills to see how tall our structures could become! We all know the best part of building a huge tower is KNOCKING IT DOWN! Check out the awesome wrecking balls created by our teachers. These were used to enhance our block centers throughout Let's Build It Week! Teachers also incorporated fine motor movement with hammering golf tees and tinkering with nuts and bolts. We ended the week with a family engagement take & make activity. 

Camp Academy

 This is one of everyone's favorite weeks of the summer! Camp Academy where friendships thrive and the outdoors make us feel alive! This week our children expressed their creativity through crafting their own tie dye t-shirts and other camp crafts, sat around a campfire and sang along with camp classics, created their own lanterns (that really work!), fine tuned their fine motor muscles with friendship bracelet making, went on hikes and pretended to go boating, and filled their tummy with s'mores (because the world could use 'smore' kids like them)! It has been a week of wholesome fun. 

Learning About Senses - Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

 Discovering more about our senses while keeping things fresh! 

Lemon scented rice bin for dramatic play! The children loved pretending to pour their friends lemonade with the plastic ice cubes and lemon slices. 

Exploring fresh lemon slices and developing our sense of smell and touch.

Noticing the difference between the inside of the lemons and the outside. Using our sense of smell and touch while developing language to describe the differences. 

Tasting lemonade after squeezing fresh lemon juice!