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Welcome to week #6! We have some new words of the week we will be practicing: I WANT. These words help your child advocate for things that they want. These words really come in handy when a friend has something that we want to play with, when we want to eat/drink, when we want something that is not currently available, etc. We will practice how to appropriately/kindly ask for things that we want (we have a visual tap/look/ask we will refer to) both directly through reading books, role playing, etc. and indirectly through modeling during play times. 

Practicing how to use our school tool scissors and turn our paper scraps into beautiful art!






Some friends really enjoy retelling our story One Duck Stuck




We talked about what we WANT to make with our blocks




Friends continued to practice how to HELP care for animals by pretending to be a veterinarian. 




Exploring how shapes can make pictures (of animals). We also noticed some cool color mixing!




A couple friends worked together to create a road for their trucks. When they discovered that the trucks were too big for the road, they used their problem solving skills to ask the teacher for smaller trucks!


We ended our day exploring some new materials and noticed we could make vehicles!





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