A little water damage...

A little water damage...

 won't hold us down!

 

Oh boy, what a few days we have had here at HDC. I walked into the school Tuesday morning to a complete waterfall happening in Jasmine's classroom and the floors in her room, Marcie's room and the hallway completely flooded. We had a frozen pipe burst from the subzero temperatures outside and water from the kitchen was pouring into the classroom. I want to thank all of our parents for being so supportive and understanding when we had to call everyone to pick up their children and to let them know we had to close for the day and the next.

Some of the aftermath...

 

We are so lucky to have such a great school community and we thank everyone who has reached out to us to donate new books and toys. We appreciate all of you so much!

 

We also appreciate all of our teachers who handled the situation and who stayed to help and clean up the mess.

 

 

Please bear with us while we get our school back in tip top shape. We will be getting the rug replaced in the hallway once everything has fully dried out and we will get Jasmine's class back together soon.

 

We thank all of our families for your patience during this time.

 

HDC Strong!

Happy New Year / Winter

 

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Please be sure to answer this months question on the
parent board when you walk in the building!

 

This month many of our classrooms are learning about winter.

Here are a few of the wonderful winter related activities happening in room 5 (Sonia & Jessica's Pre-K classroom).

The children are painting winter scenes on plastic wrap. Sonia turned the small table upside down, wrapped it in saran wrap and let the children go to town painting a snowy scene. They were then able to take a piece of paper and put it up against the painting to make an impression against the paint. 

 

Jess made moldable non melting snow with the kiddos. She had the children help measure and mix the ingredients.
1/2 cup of conditioner to 3 cups baking soda.
 
They loved helping and are having a ball making snowballs and various creations in the snow.

They practiced writing their names by making snowmen and snowwomen and counting out the correct number of circles for letters in their name.

The children worked on shape recognition and symmetry by adding various shapes to make a snowflake.

 

In their classroom sensory table they have a hot cocoa stand. There are small cut pieces of brown felt which represent the hot cocoa, cotton balls to represent the marshmallows and a wide assortment of cups and trays.

The children have been having a ball preparing and bringing hot cocoa to their friends and to us in the office too! : )

 

The children read the two classic stories, The Mitten and The Hat by Jan Brett. They then compared and contrasted the characters of the story in a group discussion to complete a Venn diagram. The children also practiced sequencing the arrival of characters in the story and had the numerals on the back of the mittens to double check their answers.

 

Their seasonal classroom tree has had a winter makeover as well! This has lead to great discussions about the changing of the seasons and what we see and notice in the winter.

 

Happy Winter Everyone!