Small Friends School News: Full of Joy in January (OC)

We had such a lovely week making art, working on letter recognition, writing, and playing together all around the room!

This week we created beautiful birch tree paintings. The kids started their paintings by taping their trees. Then, they added water color and sprinkled Epsom salts to create a pretty nighttime scene.

On Friday, they put the finishing touches on their birch tree paintings by adding bark details to their trees. We had a tree branch and picture of birch trees for the kids to reference. Their paintings will be hanging in the classroom next week!

The kids are making great progress with their letter writing and did a great job writing their names to create a cute snowman art project.

They practiced letter recognition by brushing away rice to search for hidden letters and had fun looking for the letters in their names!

On Friday we played a fun snowman game. The kids took turns rolling the dice to make a snowman.

Everyone was thrilled to discover a big iceberg in the water tub. They had fun using spray bottles to melt the ice to free the animals and gems. :)

The kids loved painting with ice cubes made from liquid watercolor and making special art for the classroom.

We had a cupcake party at the play dough table!

The kids loved playing with polar bears and "ice bergs" in the texture table.

We had a variety of fun materials in cool winter colors at the building table this week.

Here's a look at your children playing around the room!

We love looking at our cute new fishy friends!

During circle time we learned a new animal yoga series. We also read several silly books - The Penguin and the Lollipop and The Penguin Gets the Hiccups.