“Books do not belong in the library or just on the bookshelf at home….They should be under the pillows, stacked by the bed, in every nook and cranny….Books and words need to be as familiar to children as the food they eat, the music they hear, and the art they do.” Bev Bos “Teachers and parents need to be readers. Children need
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“These can be our Christmas lights!” “Let’s put them on the stairs!” One friend takes them off the stairs and starts throwing them and another friend objects. “I need some!” the first friend says. “Here, you can use the red ones,” the other friend offers. The ‘lights’ are carefully placed on the stairs again. “Let’s go to sleep and wait for Santa!”
For several days a box in the Imagination Room has been used as a spaceship, a home, a den and several more things; today C discovers a new use by positioning the box on an angle. “Look! It’s a slide,” C says to M. C pushes his body from the raised end of the box to the opening at the bottom. M joins C in
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Snow Day Protocol While it would be wonderful to always rely on the what the weather man says, there apparently is a chance that it may snow this week. If it does: We will have school as scheduled unless District 63 closes. I will send an announcement to CFAX if we do close. (they loved our name last time so they repeated it lots)
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