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 Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  The children enjoyed exploring our play area that we call The Hillside with the big Snail sculpture today.  We also added a few more of the children's ideas to our ongoing classroom agreements.  The children also started a conversation that they became very engaged in about milk.  They were eager to share with each other if they like milk warm, cold, chocolate, white, strawberry, or if they like their milk in more than just one type/way.  At Ambrose we believe it is important to listen to the children's ideas and discussions as an essential element of supporting children to take active roles in their learning.  We look forward to all of the beautiful discussions that this year will provide! Have a wonderful day!

Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  The children are quickly catching on to our routines and transitions and are enjoying predicting what comes next.  They also continued the discussion today about classroom agreements.  Yesterday they focused mainly on creating agreements to have safe bodies (not hitting, punching, kicking, biting, scratching, etc. were some of their ideas yesterday) and today they moved into some other areas like adding that we should walk in line instead of run, we should ask for toys rather than take them from each other and ask for the toy after a friend is finished if they are still wanting to use it.  We will continue discussions about how we can treat each other kindly and be safe at school and will continue developing our classroom agreements.  It can be more meaningful for children to be discussing and developing these agreements themselves rather than having a list of rules dictated to them.  At Ambrose it is our intention to suppo...

 Good afternoon, Oak Room Family! It was an exciting first day of meeting new friends and reconnecting with old friends.  The children started the process of creating classroom agreements and that process will continue over several meetings until we have a final set of classroom agreements.  We spent time playing in the Oak Room, we toured the school building and had a great time outside this morning.  This has been a fantastic beginning of school! Have a great day!

Good morning, Oak Room Family! We got to have our last birthday celebration of the year today! We wanted to thank you all for sharing your beautiful children with us this year and allowing us to get to know each of them and see them grow and shine. This has been a year of growth, curiosity and fun in the Oak Room and we are so honored to have been a part of your child’s journey.  We wish you a wonderful summer and look forward to seeing some of you next year and send our warmest wishes in the next adventure to those entering kindergarten! With much love, The Oak Room Teachers

Good afternoon, Oak Room Family! This morning we were treated to an orchestra performance by the high school! Then we enjoyed our last forest day of the year snd we’re happy that the cicadas cooperated with forest day!  Tomorrow we are celebrating by bringing a toy or game from home if children choose to!  Have a wonderful day!