Exploring The Owls' Room!

Our Owl classroom environment is a very important component in your child's experience at school.  The children are confident and becoming more familiar with our learning centers and take pride in caring for our classroom materials and centers.  We actually have introduced a Community Job Chart where the children will begin to rotate classroom jobs and take responsibility for our classroom community.  We felt that giving you a visual tour of our classroom would be informative and would further connect you to our life at school.  Enjoy the tour and please be sure to stop in and explore our classroom first hand! 

Sign In

Each morning when the Owls enter the room, they go to the sign-in table to write their names. At this center, friends are becoming familiar with the appearance of their name and beginning to practice writing their name.  As the year goes on, friends will move from writing just their first name to writing their first and last names. 

Morning Meeting

Morning Meeting is a group gathering in which we observe a Moment of Silence, stimulate thinking, and enrich social skills. It also helps friends develop an understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures.

Daily Schedule and Question of the Day

Our Daily Schedule is reviewed everyday with friends during Morning Meeting. This provides friends with an understanding as to what their day will look like.  The Question of the Day helps both teacher and friends relate to common interests and abilities. This also helps familiarize friends with the idea of graphing, voting and comparisons. 

The Writing and Art Center

This center helps friends improve their small muscle development and hand-eye coordination. It allows friends to experiment and problem solve with a variety of writing and art materials. Also, it helps friends to creatively express their thoughts by creating pictures and dictating stories.

Math Center and 100 Day Countdown

When working with math manipulatives and activities, children improve small muscle development and hand-eye coordination. The children develop one-to-one correspondence, number sense and part-whole relationships. It also allows friends to build their math vocabulary by working both independently or collectively using problem solving skills. 

Sensory Table

At the Sensory Table, friends experiment with materials like sand, water and rice. This center helps improve small muscle development and hand-eye coordination through filling and dumping containers. 

Block Play Center

The Block Play Center gives friends the ability to experience with shape and size discrimination, spatial relationships, balance, organization, and cause and effect. This center also allows friends to experience number skills, classification, problem solving, creativity and most of all, cooperative play. 

Puzzle Center

The Puzzle Center helps friends develop hand-eye coordination, problem solving and social skills. 

The Science Center

Experiences at the Science Center offer friends many hands-on opportunities for observation, collection and sorting, exploration, investigation, making predictions, experimentation and environmental stewardship. 

Dramatic Play Center

Dramatic Play activities helps friends express themselves, practice life skills, develop and extend creativity, build vocabulary and use critical thinking to problem solve. This center also allows friends to improve their social skills and increase their self-esteem.

Classroom Library

Exploring literature helps friends develop an appreciation and enjoyment of reading. It enhances one's vocabulary, comprehension skills and knowledge base. It helps friends acquire the different parts of a story such as: beginning, middle, end, characters, and plot. The Literature Center gives friends an understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures as well. 

Cubbies and Family Center

Each friend has his or her own cubby. This is a place where friends are able to keep extra clothes, rain boots and jackets.  This is also a great spot for one's 'lovey' to cozy up in until rest time. But please do not worry; as soon as lunch is over, friends will get their 'lovies' and give them double the amount of hugs and kisses! Throughout the classroom, pictures of the Owl Families can be found. This allows friends to have a little piece of home in our classroom. So if you have not brought in a picture of your family please do so!