We have spent lots of time discussing community the last couple of weeks. When asked what community was, the class decided it was a group of people who help each other. We talked about different kinds of communities that we may belong to and have really focused our attention on the school community and the Waitsfield community. This week children have been creating a block community by painting block buildings and labeling them. We also worked on community books. Next week, we will begin a project in the computer lab focusing on important ways we can help in the different communities we belong to. All of this is in preparation for our Bread and Puppet residency at the end of February, which will have a focus on community.

Today was our 90th day of school. As long as the weather cooperates, this means our 100th day will be in two weeks, on February 8th. I have asked each child to collect 100 somethings at home and choose a way to display these in the class. We brainstormed objects that would work well for this: toothpicks, pasta pieces, mini marshmallows, legos, beads. I have encouraged children to have fun thinking of creative ways to share their objects, for example one child thought of collecting 100 legos and building a structure, while someone else thought of making a design with 100 toothpicks and gluing it in paper. These can come in any time between now and February 8th.

If you haven't sent in Flynn money yet ($3.00 per child), please do. While our show is not until April, we need to pay the bill for the entire school now.