What a fun first week filled with activity and adventure! New friendships are forming as the children begin to play, work and learn from each other. It is so nice to witness!

The PreK enjoyed getting to know each other while building huge structures (garages, animal habitats and a sky scraper) in the block area, greeting each other in Morning Meeting and playing on the playground.

One of the big highlights this week was all of the wildlife we have found on BCDs campus (one right in front of our classroom door, inside!). We have found (and released) 2 Red Eft salamanders, watched a red-tailed hawk, caught a toad at the playground, watched a dragonfly, saw a camouflaged fish, and observed ants. We took a trip to the pond where we saw fish and insects as well as played in the sand. What fun!

We took a walk upstairs and visited Mrs. Kruse, Nurse D, Mr. Lindenmaier, and Ms. Provenz. We learned that our building used to be a house and our classroom a library. We even saw pictures! We also had our first specials classes this week, Spanish, P.E., and Music. We will begin having Library in two weeks.

We read The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. At first many of your children didn’t believe that you can make art just from a dot, but by the end they quickly changed their minds. We then made our own art from dots! Please take a look, they are beautiful.

We are also beginning to know some of the bigger students on campus. On Monday we met our “Bigs” in the 5th grade, they even came to our classroom on Friday to walk and sit with us for our first assembly. The “Bigs and Littles” program is one of the ways we foster a deeper sense of community at BCD. On Wednesday we met our 9th grade buddies who will be coming to eat lunch with us once a week.

I’m looking forward to an exciting year with your children!

Vicky