Month: December 2016

Casa Update

We have seen a great interest in work with the bead chains among our third year students this week. Work with the bead chains offers a beautiful progression from counting and number recognition, to skip counting, to multiplication, and finally to an understanding of squares and cubes. It also offers the opportunity for the student to persevere and explore their capability through a seemingly daunting task...especially when they reach the 1000 chain!  In the picture above, these two students…


Toddler Update

It has been a busy week in the toddler room! We are actively promoting independence in the classroom and are encouraging parents to do the same at home.We also encourage parents to have the toddlers use the potty at home, it is a regular routine in the toddler room and the consistency at school and at home will help your toddler to be well on their way to being fully potty trained!This week, we baked twice and for the first time we baked raisin bread and it was delicious!We have been…