Green Beginnings; Healthy Children, Healthy World, Healthy Future

It has been amazing to observe the hard work taking place in the block area of our Flowers room this year! Structures are being built with great detail and intention in this special area of the classroom. Skills such as planning, problem solving, and collaborating with others are in focus each day!

We particularly love our wooden unit blocks as they invite mathematical skill development (measurement, spatial concepts, and shape knowledge!) Adding ramps, arches, and tunnels to our structures integrates physical science concepts (force, motion!)

♻️Bubble wrap never goes to waste at GB! Our Buds had a blast exploring the texture of this favorite recycled material while creating some very bright and colorful collaborative art! 🫟

Our Sprouts had so much fun with their recent “all about my body” unit! One of their highlights was washing baby dolls in the sensory table. 🧼🧽Sprouts loved gently scrubbing their babies with sponges and pouring water over them as teachers highlighted different body parts and what they do! Sprouts also enjoyed exploring their feet 🦶and all of the sensory input they receive from this part of their body as they walked across a sensory trail made from beans, sea salt, pasta, and oats!

Exploring and celebrating different cultures in our early childhood classrooms is an essential part of our curriculum. Building community and an inclusive mindset begins in infancy! In celebration of Black History Month, our Seedlings explored the beautiful colors, prints, and textures of Ankara fabric squares brought in by teachers. Our older Seedlings were then invited to experiment with similar colors of paint and a sand sieve to create their own beautiful prints!

🎶What a treat it was to have Ms. Mayra join us twice a week throughout December to engage our friends with music! Our preschoolers had a blast learning and practicing “Jingle Bells” and “Feliz Navidad” as they prepared to perform these songs for our younger classrooms. What a joyful way to begin our holiday break! ❤️💚

🎃Our little pumpkins have been exploring pumpkins the past few weeks! Our younger friends bravely participated in new sensory experiences as they explored the exterior and interior of pumpkins and took in new smells. Our older friends set up a science investigation station as they learned about the lifecycle of a pumpkin, compared the physical features of various gourds, and documented their findings. All rooms enjoyed using pumpkins as canvases for their art!

🎃Too good not to share! Even more from Healthoween!

🎃More from Healthoween! Our amazing families!

🎃It was a beautiful day for our annual Healthoween event! We absolutely love bringing together our team, current families, and past families for a fun-filled morning in costume! We are always so impressed with everyone’s creativity! Thank you to all who were able to participate!

🎉🎈Green Beginnings celebrated its 12th birthday earlier this month! Of course, when you are little, no celebration is complete without pom-poms and noisemakers! 📣👏Our classrooms came together to make joyful noise, dance, and sing along as we celebrated our favorite school! Bravo to our directors, Katie & Krissy, for their years of hard work and dedication to the families in our community💚

🌳🛝Yesterday was a great day for our annual GB Park Crawl! Thank you to all of our families and team members who were able to make it! What a wonderful opportunity it was for us to socialize, exercise, and explore our awesome neighborhood parks together!💚

🦺🏗️🔨Our Flowers wrapped up an awesome construction unit where they learned about the clothing, safety gear, tools, and machines used by construction workers! They applied their new knowledge creatively by using wooden mallets in their art and fine motor activities, and by collaborating in the block area to build detailed structures!