“The more we get together, together, together, the more we get together, the happier we’ll be.

Cuz your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends.

The more we get together the happier we’ll be.”

Scenes from a typical busy morning, and an afternoon visit from the guinea pigs, Daphne and Velma.

We have begun to remove the partitions from our tables, at last! It’s a happy feeling to share a table and a conversation without a barrier now!

Scrubbing a stool, the hundred board, drawing with chalk, tracing metal insets

“Understand and Care” is the title of the book, and that’s just what we are learning to do each day.

Gung Hay Fat Choy! We festooned the classroom with beautiful red lanterns for Lunar New Year. On one sunny day, friends were taking turns seeing a prism-refracted rainbow on themselves! January has seen much enthusiasm for maps!

Three modes of numeracy at play: Writing numerals, one-to-one correspondence with locks and keys, and matching jumps on the dot to the number of dots in the book!

I am filled with nostalgia as I think of the many years of laughter and learning that have been shared in this beautiful 2121 Arch Street building. Yet I look forward to sharing with you new pictures to cherish, soon, from a new place, with the same wonderful people!