Monthly Archives: December 2016


December 9


Good afternoon Dogwood families, This week Dogwood and Cedar learned about winter animals.  The children talked about animals sleeping and hiding during the winter.  The children sang different versions of songs they already know such as “The Bears are Marching,” 

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December 9


Hello Aspen families, we’ve had such an amazing week!  This week we continued to explore shapes using the shape song and gingerbread shape matching. During our large group, children matched letters and fed them to a silly snow man. They 

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December 9


Good afternoon Cedar families, This week Dogwood and Cedar learned about winter animals.  The children talked about animals sleeping and hiding during the winter.  The children sang different versions of songs they already know such as “The Bears are Marching,” 

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December 9


This week in Forest, children discussed and celebrated winter! We made snowflakes and decorations for the Light and Love concert, talked about the cold weather, and read new books all about snow! We did not get outside much, but children 

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December 9


Hello Garden and Mountain Families. What a chilly week it has been. Fitting: as this week, we had a theme of ‘Arctic Animals.’ The children enjoyed looking at pictures of penguins, polar bears, seals, arctic foxes, wolves, etc. With a 

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December 9


Good afternoon Birch families, This week the Birch class turned their focus on animals in winter and hibernation.  They discussed what it means to hibernate and which animals hibernate all winter long.  During small circle, the children listened along to 

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Parent Weekly Notes | December 9, 2016


Parent Weekly Notes | December 9, 2016 Light and Love Holiday Performances Continue This Week The Light and Love performances are an annual event for Treehouse. Our music teacher, Ms. Kathleen, puts together a lovely show which highlights the love 

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December 9


Good afternoon Evergreen families! This week in Evergreen the children learned about a festival of lights called Diwali, which was celebrated in October. The children expressed excitement that they knew about Diwali because the will be singing about it for 

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December 2


Good afternoon Dogwood families, This week we learned about winter!  The children learned the signs for “snow” and “cold” as well as learned the words in Spanish.  The children sang “If all of the Snowflakes . . .,” “Frosty, the 

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December 2


Good afternoon Birch families, This week, the Birch class focused their attention enhancing their fine motor skills by working with lacing, threading and weaving work.   During work time, the class practiced threading large wooden beads on a string, worked with 

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