Northaven Co-operative Preschool

The 2’s & 3’s class spent part of the morning exploring worms🪱🪱

The book Worm Weather by Jean Taft led their teacher, Ms. Julie, to build the wormery. Our young wormologists used their spray bottles to encourage the worms to move about, help them stay moist, and squirm in their hands. Exploring in nature, observing, and hands-on experiences bring our classroom outdoors

Field trips are a a wonderful addition to the pre-school learning experience. Our classes have been studying butterflies and what a wonder it was to enter the Butterfly Garden to enjoy the active and sensory experience of having butterflies land on our bodies. This shared experience allowed for all the students to interact with their peers and their adult helpers to increase their interest and knowledge about the insect world

Celebrating Ramadan ☪️
We learned all about the holy month of Ramadan, a time to fast, reflect, be thankful, and help others. Our co-op mother Noha provided a wonderful art activity, making lanterns to complete this special lesson

The Co-op has spent the week in space! We have learned about the sun, the moon, the planets, and the constellations. It was such fun to discover the phases of the moon with our Oreo cookies, build rockets with magna tiles and paper, practice counting backward, and stomp our rockets above the trees

Always a favorite subject: Dinosaur & Volcano Week! 🦖🌋🦕 New Blog Post 🔗in bio

In honor of President’s Day, our older classes made American flags and joined in a kazoo parade. We learned many facts about our flag, and we were so surprised that our flag is flying on the moon 🇺🇸

Each year, our school celebrates the Lunar New Year. This year is the Year of the Dragon 🐲🧧
We read books, create watercolor lanterns, and cook traditional foods. Each child has the chance to wear the lion dancer costume and move about the classroom

Valentine’s Day is a special time at the Co-op 💕
Our classes find different ways for using the heart shape as a foundation for self-expression. Easel painting allows the children to select different paint colors to create their heart masterpiece. Exchanging valentine’s with each other is exciting and an opportunity to enjoy being mail carriers for the morning

📚The Co-op Book Fair is here! 📚

Grab your family & friends & head over to Interabang Books for an unforgettable event celebrating our special Co-op community and the love of learning! Story Time begins at 3:00 pm today with two local childrens’ authors

Don’t forget 15% of your purchase goes back to the Co-op when you use code “HEDGEHOG” at checkout!

To celebrate Groundhog Day, our Young 3’s class explored the properties of light and shadow. Using their small flashlights 🔦the students made shadows on the ceiling. In art, they made sun catchers ☀️ using plastic jar lids, glue, and marbling with food coloring

Our youngest students are learning science by doing. Dissolving our ⛄️ made from packing peanuts and sensory place with 🧊🧊 makes for lots of fun!

With frigid temps in Dallas this week, we brought the winter fun indoors ☃️

We listened to the true story of BLIZZARD by John Rocco, made snowstorms in a jar, painted icicles, scooped ice cubes in our sensory table and had great fun “ice skating!”

Hello 2024 🥳 Our classes celebrated the New Year by listening to Shante Keys and the New Year’s Peas, exploring the different types of foods eaten to celebrate New Year's cross-culturally. We were excited to find out that our classmate Lucia had eaten more than twelve grapes on New Year’s an Hispanic tradition. When the clock strikes midnight you are to quickly eat one grape with each chime to be blessed with good luck for the year 🍇

❄️ s n o w ❄️ d a y ❄️ at the co-op! After wishing and wishing for a snow day, we brought our own snow to Texas ☃️ Squeals of laughter and catching flakes on the playground gave us all that priceless moment of "awe"

Our oldest classes spent the morning decorating gingerbread houses. The tradition is believed to be of German origin and related to the fairy- tale of Hansel and Gretel. The children had an opportunity to nibble just as Hansel and Gretel the delicious sweets before packaging their houses to take home

During this holiday season our students are introduced to holiday traditions celebrating the diversity of our school. All of our classes cook the special foods of the season and making latkes during Hanukkah are a must. The special candelabra called the Menorah is lit each night by the helper candle and we enjoyed lighting ours. Our art projects included making paper menorahs and watercolor dreidels —the spinning top game played for gold coins called gelt

Making tamales on special holidays is a tradition in many Mexican homes. Our 4’s & 5’s class listened to the book Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto and Lucia used play dough and pipe cleaner ingredients to teach the class how to make tamales. We all learned how to spread the masa flat on the corn husk, add the filling of cheese, peppers and meat – fold it up, cook and enjoy!

Our Fab Friday engineers explored the concept of trajectory. What more engaging way to understand how projectiles move through space than by participating in a game of bowling? The penguin pins and the snowball made it even more fun

To conclude our study of the Native Americans this past month, we discussed teepees, how they were constructed and their purpose in allowing ease of moving from place to place to follow the buffalo. We constructed paper teepees placed five teepees on the playground for the children to explore with their classmates

Our Fab Friday scientists began the process of making crystals. Each student made their own pipe cleaner candy cane and learned about suspension as they carefully lowered them in the solution of water and borax. Now they must wait until next week to see the beauty of their crystal candy✨

Using nature to nurture creativity 🍁🎨🖌️🍂

🦔It's Spirit Night at the Co-op🦔
Join us tonight at Haystack Burgers in Hillcrest Village for a night of community and fun! Bring your jackets to enjoy the outdoor playground and mention Northaven Co-op at checkout and 15% of your purchase will go back to our school.

Our first harvest from our tower garden🪴🧑‍🌾🥬
Our classes are picking their greens, washing them and tasting them with their own handmade ranch dressing. Greens never tasted so good!

Our outdoor mud kitchen is a favorite activity. This little girl is making a special mud soup, carefully adding her ingredients. Yum! 🥣

After learning about the role of the scarecrow in the fields, we decided we needed to make our own to keep watch over our pumpkin patch! We wanted him to be a kind scarecrow, so we chose blue button eyes, a triangle nose and added a big smiling mouth

New Blog Post: The Story of our Pumpkin Patch!

A year in the making, with much excitement, we've discovered our own Co-op pumpkin! Link in our bio for the full story🎃

One of our favorite days of the year! Thank you to our parent volunteers for a magical morning of fall fun and to all who made our Great Pumpkin Carnival so special!

Tomorrow is the day! 🎃 Join us for the
Great Pumpkin Carnival at Northaven Co-op, tomorrow, 10/28 from 10-1p! Families, alumni, friends and all are welcome for a morning of games, crafts, prizes, pumpkins and fall fun!

Rainy days ☔️ mean rain boots at the co-op💦
Blue skies or gray, we’re always ready to play!

3 little mice in our classroom🐭🐭🐭

Our young 3's welcomed 3 squeaky new classmates: Pixel, Peaches & Squigles. Pets in the classroom allow our students the opportunity to connect with animals, observe their needs and learn the responsibilities of caring for a pet.

Oh what fun it is to watch them play, hide and eat!