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Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  This morning children added to their list of things they want to make for life in space.  They continued work on these ideas by building robots, rovers, and tools for space, painting and drawing all kinds of rockets and spaceships, building space colonies with blocks and creating planets, baby aliens, and space food from clay, and so much more!  The teachers are really enjoying listening to the children's ideas grow and develop. Have a great day!

Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  We had the opportunity to participate in a safe touch presentation this morning in the collaboratory which included discussions about how to be safe with our bodies and how to keep our bodies safe.  Among other things, we learned and practiced a 3 step process if someone touches our bodies in a way that is not okay that we first use an outside voice to say "No!" or "Stop it!" then second we get away from that person and third is to tell a trusted grown up about what happened.  The children got a chance to think about all of their trusted grownups that they can talk to. Children continue to request sewing so today we practiced hand sewing beads onto coffee filters.  The children enhance activities with their own inspiration so it is not only fine motor development but they get to plan their piece, incorporate patterns, problem solve getting everything to stay together, learn from each other and so much more!  The children can wra...

Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  Today by student request we got out the sewing machine.  Children were excited to take turns making sleeves, bags, wash cloths, books and just explore the machine and materials.  The children worked together to plan what they were going to make and where they wanted the seams to go and they learned about some of the basic parts of the machine and which mechanisms controlled those parts.  They discussed how to use the machine safely and had a fantastic time! Have a wonderful day!