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Grandparents & Special Guests Day!

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Today we welcomed some guests of honor to our school! The children's grandparents and special guests were able to see our classroom, then come over to Caroll Hall for some special activities to create together.  We loved getting to meet your families today! Thank you for sharing these precious moments with us at Utopia.                                                    

Happy Year of the Snake! 🐍

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This week we celebrated Lunar New Year, the year of the Snake! We decorated the classroom with red and gold lanterns, snakes, and read a variety of stories to learn more about how people all over the world celebrate the new year! Surya's mom also came to visit and taught us how to make red scrolls for our classroom!                         

Be A Friend

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Everyday in preschool, the teachers make notice of the times the children show empathy and care for one another, whether that is helping someone clean up without asking, showing a friend how to do something they are skilled at, or even encouraging each other during challenges. Here are a couple moments we captured this week when the children were kind to one another:                                     Jaeda noticed Diego building a tower out of waffle blocks. As the tower got higher, the tower started to lean over! Jaeda offered to hold the bottom of his tower, and then they both added more pieces together, The tower ended up being 20 squares high! Great teamwork, Jaeda and Diego! Julian is learning to put on his shoes by himself. The teacher asked Teddy to show Julian his technique of putting on the straps, step by step. Teddy stayed with Julian until both of them had the...

Happy New Year!

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It's officially 2025 and the children are back in school. We expected some apprehension after the long break, but the children were all happy and excited to to see their friends and teachers again! We had some new activities planned in the classroom including watercolor and pipettes, scrape painting, and new materials in the Manipulative Area. We also asked the children to journal about what they did over Winter Break at the Writing Table!