I hope you are having an amazing day.
Continue readingMonth: January 2024
Early morning work and play!
Hello, dear Parents!
Just a reminder that we will have our Sharing Friendship Exchange on 2.8.
Please let me know if you did not receive a note and a piece of watercolor paper to make the special card for your child’s friend. We’ll make sure to send it home ASAP!
Have a great day and thank you.
Continue readingPinch and pull to clean our noses!
We have been emphasizing the pinching our nose with the tissues and pulling away from our faces to clean our noses at school! If you have a stuffed animal, you can encourage your child to show you how to clean toy’s nose at home for extra practice.
Continue readingHappy Friday!
We hope you all have a safe and wonderful weekend.
Continue readingPlease check lunchboxes today
Your child should receive their Sharing Friendship note and instructions today in their lunchbox. We can’t wait to celebrate with everyone!
Continue readingRain, rain…
We appreciate you and thank you for helping our trees grow!
Continue reading“Keep love in your heart…
…a life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”–Oscar Wilde
Continue readingHave you seen me around? :)
Hello, dear Parents!
If you’ve seen any MMS water bottles (or little silver forks) at your house, could you bring them to school tomorrow? Thank you so much! The water bottles look like this:
A fun family event in Temple
Hello, dear Parents,
On February 3rd, Temple will host an Animal Science Family Day at their Railroad and Heritage Museum. You can find more information here.
Continue reading“You become…
…what you give your attention to.”–Epictetus
Since we have such a small amount of time to spend with one another and building up our relationships and individual skills, let’s spend it wisely! For children, this means playing, learning to choose, to wait, to take turns, to share, to balance laughing and talking with listening, to balance thoughts and big emotions, to curb impulses, to push through disappointment with additional effort, and to learn to ask for help–and all while managing their blossoming independence in addition to more traditional aims such as reading, math, etc. Whew! These are formative tasks that build the foundation of so much of their future.
Let’s give our attention to important things and be present for each moment with the children–each moment constructs their future selves.
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