Friendship week continues!

Happy Tuesday! We celebrated friendship again today making a special project together. Today we began a new check in routine. Ask your kiddo what shape they had to write their name on to hang on the tree. We continued to practice our new magic words OPEN and CLOSE and our question word WHAT? Our new centers seem to bring smiles to our friends faces. At group time, we read the book Fill a Bucket: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Young Children by Carol McCloud and Katherine Martin, M.A. We discussed that everyone has a special, invisible bucket inside them and that by giving/receiving kindness they fill buckets. A full bucket makes us feel happy. Our challenge as a class is to work together to fill a real bucket at school by displaying kindness. When we fill our bucket, we will have a special surprise!! For snack orange must be the color of the day because we had Goldfish and orange slices. For our gross motor time we went for a walk to hunt for hearts and collected sticks for a project!

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Day 2 Pine Room Fun!

For our invitations we have our small world were we can tell stories about what our families like to do outside. In our dramatic play we are showing how we can care for others, including our baby dolls. Outside we are checking out how fun our giant snail and mud kitchen are.

Tree Swing

The Pine kids were SO excited to get back to the forest today. Because S spends the beginning of her day in another classroom, she was already familiar with a coveted branch that hung low enough for the kids to try and swing on. "There's a tree swing at the forest, we should all do it!" S, who seemed to display a high level of confidence, took a hold of the branch as R handed it to her. She took a deep breath and jumped off the log. S swung with grace over the ground. The others watched in awe and quickly lined up to take turns. Each friend took a different approach and not always quite sure on how to get the same kind of lift and swing S did. W seemed unsure on the whole activity, but was willing to try. He couldn't quite get the desired swinging motion and lost interest after his first try. L saw how the others were swinging and although a little scared, decided to try several times in a row be...

Creek Time

Happy Tuesday! We spent our entire afternoon out at Larson Park! It was definitely a hot one so when the kids heard we were going to get to play in the creek, they screamed in excitement. Not everyone wanted to stomp around in the shallow water and that was a-okay. Such a fun afternoon splashing around, exploring, and doing a great job sticking together as a class!

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