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Musical Monday!

Happy Monday and welcome back! This week are celebrating Week of the Young Child and we have quite the lineup of fun stuff planned. Today, we celebrated by participating in Musical Monday! Our kids took some time this afternoon to create some of their own instruments. It was so great. They worked tirelessly to try and create drums, shakers, and a flute! The kids worked on these during their arrival time and then got to show them off at the meeting. Tget quickly determined they wanted to create a band outside. A great idea! All of our instruments made it outside and both classes began banging and clanging for the rest of the afternoon.

Below you can watch to see each child play their instrument for everyone. A second video shows an update about our butterflies. Today was a great day! 

Instruments!


Butterflies! 


 

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