December at ICP

Maybe I have figured out what has been keeping me from posting on this blog. I love technology when it does what I want, and get so frustrated when it doesn't!

Lots has been happening at ICP since November. We had a wonderful tree planting event, with lots of particpation from community families. We have had grandparent's days in all classes, and baked homemade pizzas, and learned about winter and celebrated with a Celebration of Light Party when the preschool was filled to the brim with Christmas lights.

We have been learning about transportation since we came back from Winter Break. The kids have explored all of the parts of a real car, and made cardboard box cars. They all had driver's licenses, too. We have played bus, and train, and are preparing for some ferry field trips. The Orcas will also visit the train station and tour an Amtrack train. They are preparing for a "trip" to Mexico, so along with learning how they could travel there, they have been learning some Spanish, and we made our own delicious tortillas in class!

It snowed one day at school, so we sang our snowmen songs and pretended we were snwmen. I hope we didn't wish too hard for snow, because we all got dumped on! I know the kids will have lots of stories to tell about their snowy adventures when we return to school Monday.