Items brought into the classroom in line with Weekly Plans

~ Food ingredients
~ Hot glue guns
~ Picture frame
~ Pipe Cleaners
~ Puzzles

What families did at home to continue and extend the explorations and projects at school

~ Checked in with their child about the project; for example, their contributions to the group and their feelings about the project
~ Identified salient features of their own house and labeled them to increase vocabulary
~ Studied plumbing and electrical

Parent visits to the classroom and/or special contributions of ideas, expertise, materials, etc. to your explorations and projects

~ Ed visited the class to talk about construction projects
~ Jenn brought pipe cleaners for plumbing and electrical in the doll house
~ Kat donated a magnet board for tangram project
~ Grammy Anne donated herb pods for our indoor garden ~ Carter brought “Firework,” the air plant home to take care of it during the winter break