June 19, 2018 A Tree for Me Lavender, Seedling, Seedling-Lavender After reading A Tree for Me, students looked for a special tree branch on our property, and brought it back so they could paint it!
June 12, 2018 Watermelon finger-painting Arts and Crafts, Day-to-day, Lavender, Photos by Candace, Preschool, Seedling-Lavender After reading a book about watermelons, Seedling-Lavender students paint their own watermelons!
May 30, 2018 Birthday muffins and a teaspoon of sugar Cooking, Day-to-day, Lavender, Photos by Candace, Seedling, Seedling-Lavender, snack A Seedling-Lavender student celebrates his birthday with Rhonda by making our her special birthday muffin recipe!
May 28, 2018 Color coordination Day-to-day, Maple, Maple-Sunflower, Photos by, Photos by Candace, Play group, Sunflower On “Yellow Day” during Rainbow Week, students play Sunny Day Pond, a color game, with Alexa.
May 16, 2018 Making animal tracks with paint for friends Lavender, Preschool, Seedling, Seedling-Lavender Candace helps Seedling-Lavender students use animal figures and paint to make animal tracks; one to keep, and one to share with a friend.
May 14, 2018 Painting with wind Arts and Crafts, Maple, Maple-Sunflower, Photos by, Photos by Alexa, Pre-K, Preschool, Sunflower After learning about spring winds, Candace helps her students “paint with wind” using straws and their own breath.
May 12, 2018 Olympic closing ceremony; Royal-Flowers Kindergarten, Maple, Maple-Sunflower, Preschool, Sunflower Maple-Sunflower students walk with their class flag in our Olympic closing ceremony. Students chose the team name, “Royal Flowers!”
May 10, 2018 A week full of colors and birthdays! Kindergarten, Maple, Maple-Sunflower, New Building, Photos by, Photos by Raina, Pre-K, Preschool, Sunflower There are three birthdays this week at Astra. It is also Rainbow Week (today was orange day). This young fellow is participating in our Astra birthday tradition of sharing photos and stories from all five years of his life!
April 29, 2018 Taking care of the class worms Kindergarten, Maple-Sunflower, Preschool, Uncategorized Candace gives Maple-Sunflower students get a spring refresher about taking care of the class worms.
