Dear River Families, Thank you for those of you met with me this week for conferences! Conferences will continue into next week. We had a busy week in Kindergarten. Just to clarify, we follow BVSD academic calendar, meaning that days …

Good afternoon Cedar families, This week Dogwood and Cedar learned about scarecrows and fall animals.  The children looked at pictures of baby animals and listened to animal sounds.  The children sang “I’m a Little Scarecrow,” “If You’re Happy and You …

Dear Forest Families, This week in Forest we focused on a “families” theme through play. Children have been practicing as different roles of a family and using that role to engage in dramatic play with each other. Each center is a …

Good afternoon Evergreen families! This week in Evergreen the children learned all about apples. The children were introduced to a Science lesson illustrating the life cycle of an apple. Every day they worked on cutting the cards, and did their …

Good afternoon Aspen Families! We have stayed very busy this week discussing: feelings and pumpkins. We had a puppet show which allowed Aspen children to visualize how to play cooperatively together.  We read Sheep is Sacred and Alligator is Angry. …

Parent Weekly Notes – October 14, 2016 Thank you for the delicious chili feast pot-luck this week!  We are grateful to have such a supportive parent community.   Notes from the Parent Group October 20th –Potluck Lunch provided for teachers …

Good afternoon Dogwood families, This week Dogwood and Cedar learned about scarecrows and fall animals.  The children looked at pictures of baby animals and listened to animal sounds.  The children sang “I’m a Little Scarecrow,” “If You’re Happy and You …

Hello Garden and Mountain Families. This week at Treehouse we focused on a theme of ‘trees and leaves.’ With the leaves changing and falling it seemed appropriate. We talked about the different parts of a tree and looked at pictures …

Good afternoon Birch families, This week, the Birch class focused their attention on yoga and calming activities.  As a group, the class learned the yoga poses “cat-cow”, “tree”, “butterfly”, “happy child” and “warrior”.  The class collected rocks on a nature …

We started learning the Alphabet – El Alfabeto. There’s a song for the alphabet in Spanish and that’s how they are hearing the new sounds for the letters. The nice thing about Spanish is that it has the same alphabet …