the Bala House
By Jessica McDowell
Happy spring and welcome back from break. We hope you had a restful and fun time with your family. March really came in like a lion this year. We had fun making snowmen on the playground during our late winter/early spring snowstorm. Now we are looking forward to identifying signs of spring like flowers, budding [...]
By Jessica McDowell
We are delighted to be sending home the children’s snow pants and turning our classroom calendar to a page containing the first day of spring! Please send rain boots during days when there are spring showers. The playground can become very muddy. During the month of March we will celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with some [...]
By Jessica McDowell
January was a month of wintertime fun in our classroom. The room was a blizzard of paper snowflakes as the children enjoyed winter-themed art works such as cutting paper snowflakes, making snowman puppets, snowflake counting, and mitten punching. We observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day by reading books about his life and using art materials [...]
By Jessica McDowell
I hope that everyone enjoyed spending time with their families over winter break. We are very happy to be back to school, and the children are excited to see their friends and return to their work in the classroom. We had a wonderful time with our holiday classroom traditions last month. The children enjoyed rolling [...]
By Jessica McDowell
We hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving with their families. We were overwhelmed by the amazing parent support with our classroom feast. It was wonderful to have so much help with preparing, serving, and cleaning up after the meal. The children had a great time and learned so much about Thanksgiving traditions. Last month [...]