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Something New in Recycling at St. Philip's Nursery School
Building an indoors "igloo" indoors from prosaic empty plastic milk jugs proved a very successful winter way to combine fun and learning at St. Philip's Nursery School. Stacking and gluing, children constructed an igloo that comfortably holds three classmates. As JoAnne Chadwick, head teacher and music director, points out: "The igloo showed the children how the single jug they brought in from home combined with others resulted in a creation of much greater significance. And, we also incorporated a lot of math skills as we counted the 'blocks of ice.'"
The igloo building was part of an extended curriculum unit on polar peoples and animals. In the Arctic regions, the children learned about puffins, polar bears, walruses, beluga whales, and the Inuit- and they learned that penguins stay south near the Antarctic. St. Philip's now has its own penguin statues, thanks to the construction skills of teacher Tam Benjamin and the papier mache skills of many small hands. The igloo will next be recycled into a new identity as a "dino cave" as the curriculum moves on to dinosaurs.
St. Philip's Nursery School serves Philipstown's three and four-year old children. For further information, please call 424-4209, or visit the preschool's Website at www.stphilipsns.org.
Shown in front of the completed igloo are Daniel McElroy, Shaye Smith Martin, and Shannon Ferri, of Cold Spring, and Ella Ashburn of Garrison.
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