Upstairs Neighborhood
December 10, 2022
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Hello Neighborhood Families!
Hello Neighborhood Families!
It has been a busy few weeks her in the Upstairs Neighborhood. We have been noticing changes in our environment as plants and animals get ready for winter. We have turned our focus to our sugar maple tress as we watch them prepare for a period of dormancy.
We have been linking the trees experience with dormancy to our own experience of being put to bed. How do our caregivers put us to bed? Cozy blankets? A song and wish for pleasant sleep? A message of gratitude for time spent together? We have been thinking of how to apply these principles to the trees. We are the caregivers and the trees our beloved kin. We have been blanketing their roots with wood chips, singing them our special Randolph lullaby and imagining what trees dream of. We are so lucky to be in a place each day that is full of trees.
Leaves and Buds
Leaves and Buds
Our interest in trees has exploring all the different parts. We have been studying leaves throughout the fall. We have used what we have learned about vocabulary and anatomy to create 'leaves' out of blocks.
We have also been studying buds with evan and Amy. We have been learning their structure and how branches are formed with terminal and lateral buds. We have been using our nature journals to record our observations and practice our writing with labels.
Choice Time Work
Choice Time Work
We have been spending our Choice Times building in the Block Hut, playing math games, finger knitting and weaving, working on our all-school spiral and writing down our ideas about what trees dream about for our collaborative "Maple Dreams' book.
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