Today was color day! Each classroom was assigned to wear a different color to kick off Spirit Week. 🌈👕 #TheWashingtonWay #SpiritWeek #ColorDay #HomecomingWeek #HarvardRising
Washington entomologists are investigating insects even closer this week. 🐜🐝🐞🔎 #TheWashingtonWay #CreativeCurriculum #Insects #LearningThroughPlay #LittleEntomologists
Washington students started their Insect Study this week. We can't wait to learn more these next few weeks. 🦋🐞🪲🐛 #TheWashingtonWay #CreativeCurriculum #Insects #HarvardRising #LearningThroughPlay
Next week (9/30-10/4) is Homecoming Week! We'd love for our students and staff to join in on the fun and participate in our Spirit Days. Go Hornets! 💛🐝🖤 #TheWashingtonWay #Homecoming #SpiritWeek #HarvardRising #Hornets
“There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy 📚💛 #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #WICOR #ECE
Ms. Florez' class made bracelets during their Small Group time to work on their fine motor skills. 📿👐 #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #FineMotor #LearningThroughPlay
Students write in their journals during Small Group time to develop their literacy , self -expression, and fine motor skills. ✍️📓 #TheWashingtonWay #WICOR #Journaling #HarvardRising
AVID WICOR Wednesdays! On Wednesdays, we wear our AVID and college or career ready shirts. This Wednesday our students also participated by dressing up in different career costumes while pretending to do different jobs. We reviewed our classroom jobs and some students explored Washington and searched for different workers in the building. 🔨📓✏️🎨🥁🧑🍳🎒🏫#TheWashingtonWay #WICOR #AVID #HarvardRising
Not only do Washington students love Gross Motor time, but it is also significant to their development and education. Gross Motor time helps develop our students mobility, independence, critical thinking, and overall health. 🏃🛝⚽🐝 #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #GrossMotor #LearningThroughPlay
Ms. Luna's class worked in groups to complete a letter scavenger hunt. 🔤🔍📋 #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #LearningThroughPlay #WICOR
"Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning" -Mr. Rodgers 🧸🪀🎨🧩🖍️ #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #LearningThroughPlay
Large Group time is a daily structured activity that allows children to practice social skills, following rules and routines, and develop a sense of community. 💛🐝🖤 #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #LargeGroup
Earlier this month we had our Bus Evacuation Drill and it was a great success! Thank you, Durham Bus Services for coming to Washington on Friday to educate us on bus safety. 🚌 #TheWashingtonWay #BusEvacuationDrill #HarvardRising
Reminder: Friday September 20th will be Washington's Picture Day. 📸 #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #PictureDay
Happy National Play Dough Day! We love Play Dough at Washington School. We use it daily to develop a variety of important skills such as-
-Fine motor skills
-Creativity
-Focus
-Working as a calming tool
-Providing a positive sensory experience
-Improving independence and critical thinking.
-Supporting literacy and numeracy
-Improving social skills
-Encouraging language development
Washington students successfully completed their first Fire Drill. We learned the importance of safety and following instructions. 🔔🚒🧯#TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #FireDrill
Wednesday September 11th there will be no school for Washington students. All other CUSD50 schools will be in attendance, but have early release.
Students work on counting through a variety of scenarios every day. From strategically planned small group activities, counting tally results of a class vote during large group, to spontaneously counting students lined up to go outside. Counting is one of Washington's Portfolio Objectives. ➕🔢 #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising
Ms. Luna's class used their Gross Motor time to develop their fine motor skills and spacial awareness by tracing each other with sidewalk chalk. ☀️✍️ #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #LearningThroughPlay
Just as a reminder, there will be no school on Monday September 2nd in honor of Labor Day. We hope you have a nice long relaxing weekend. 🔧🪛 #TheWashingtonWay #HarvardRising #LaborDay
