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The Complete Guide to Crosschain Interoperability
However, using Asset transfer API is still quite complex if we read the Listing 2. We must be aware of particular things, such as Parachain’s ID, the ID of the token, and XCM versions. Similarly to Polygon CDK, UniswapX is limited to homogeneous EVM networks such as Polygon, Base, and others. We also analyze the…
WW Updates and Thanks
Flowers Thank you Dot’s family for the beautiful flowers this week. These bouquets brighten up our spaces! Here’s the link to our SignUpGenius for classroom flowers: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0449afa629a02-flower Conference sign-ups West Wing Zoom conferences will continue through mid-November. If you need to check when you signed up, or to change your sign up, please use this…
“You Open Up the Door and Put in the Note for the Cilantro.” -Marcel
The children in the West Wing became increasingly interested in giving and receiving notes to one another. We planned to come up with a better system for note delivery between the Cilantros and the Dandelions. The previous system, where a teacher on each side was needed to facilitate and coordinate delivery, was not supporting the…
WW updates and thanks!
Flowers Thank you so much to Cary’s and Ana’s families for the beautiful flowers this week. These bouquets not only brighten up our spaces but also provide inspiration for color mixing, observational drawing, and loose parts exploration. Here’s the link to our SignUpGenius for classroom flowers: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0449afa629a02-flower Birthday! Traditionally, we have invited parents in to…
“Look. She can’t reach it.”-Arya
One of the West Wing research questions is: What will we learn alongside children and families to deepen our understanding of their capabilities and our partnership? When Spencer arrived one morning, he requested the soccer ball. He had a plan. He wanted to throw the soccer ball at the wind chimes and make the sound. …
EW Thanks & Halloween
It was so much fun preparing for our Halloween celebration!! The children enjoyed making decorations for the classroom, like pumpkin drawings and pumpkins made with paper maché, paper chains, and all kinds of spooky decorations. We spent weeks making all these things and had many conversations to make sure that our decor worked for the…
WW Thanks & Halloween
Flowers, pumpkins, gourds, and more! Thank you to Wiley’s family for bringing fresh lettuce for our turtles and to Spencer’s and Colette’s families for bringing in flowers this week to our classrooms. These bouquets not only brighten up our spaces but also provide inspiration for color mixing, observational drawing, and loose parts exploration. We also…
“There’s no face on this pumpkin.” – Emma
In the West Wing, many of our beginning experiences with drawing and painting are centered around the joy of pure exploration: How do I feel when my brush moves across the paper? What happens when these two colors play together? What emotions can different colors bring? As the children become more familiar with paint and…
“We all want to really say thank you.” – Copper
The Cilantro group got a fun surprise in the Sand Area when we noticed a strand of Halloween decorations that the Aloe Vera group created and left for us to find. We transferred it to the Middle Courtyard to add to our Haunted House. At our reflection meeting, we discussed how we could show our…