Classroom

Welcome to Ms. Stephanie's Classroom A little bit of information about the room it's self, it is not your typical white walled classroom. My classroom was made of all recycled materials and is 100% eco-friendly. All the tables and chairs are made of wood from our land, and we try to stimulate a natural environment indoors. There are beautiful paintings of nature on one wall and we have a tree and beehive in the back of the room for visual stimulation. We have also painted the ceiling so it a appears as a bright sunny day. We have live plants both in and around our classroom and we all take part in caring for our plants daily. We also have live animals on and around the area that we tend to daily as well. We are always learning about how to care for our environment and how to make it fun and interesting. In my classroom I hold the actual environment to be as important in stimulating growth, development, and learning as what we do in our environment. We are learning respectful and loving social interactions, as well as respectful and loving nature interactions. We enjoy all organic locally grown foods, and we all take part in the making of foods. Here we find food preparations to be just as important for survival as reading, and lots of fun too. We use this time to learn measurements, team work, creativity, and cooking. We also all participate in cleaning after snacks and lunch and after every other activity throughout the day.

In my classroom, we move a lot! We start the morning off with music circle, where we greet our neighbors and sing and dance to some fun songs. Throughout the day we do mostly hands on activities and prefer to be outside as much as possible. I believe in the power of motion, if we never sit still or stop playing, we are consistently learning and never bored. We engage and encourage creativity in all aspects of play and learning here. We also learn about places all over the world. Each month students who have birthday bring a poster with pictures and stories of how they live and grow as a family. We also pick another country every month and look at people, places, celebrations, animals, ect that take place in that country. In my classroom we are exploring all aspects of life and the world in creative fun play!!!!!