Monday, Monday

As our day began, the Little Frogs opened the kitchen/restaurant/cookout area and began serving a variety of foods. Our friends are hard at work figuring how to negotiate and play cooperatively - and this is most evident as they manage using the same space and toys. This is perhaps the hardest task when you are two or three year old (and sometimes when you are a twenty or thirty year old), and the Frog teachers are often helping kids find the words they need to express their thoughts and feelings.

Our discussion about spiders also continued, as we tried to figure out what a spider eats. We used the computer to answer this question, and also to print out a spider picture, so that we could count it's legs.

The Frogs also took a closer look at some of the leaves we brought in from outside. We noticed that many of them crumbled into tiny pieces when we smooshed them, and that others only bent.

We also had our first Movement class today with Missy. We went over to the John Barnes room (in the meetinghouse), and Missy showed us some dances and stretches.

We also got to pick instruments and march and play to the music.

By far our favorite activity in Movement class today was when Missy put the bubble wand in front of the fan and we all got to chase them and pop them!

We cooled down with a few more stretches, and then Missy gave us stamps on our arms.

Outside, we did some drumming on the benches, and then headed inside for morning meeting and snack.

Then we headed off on a spider hunt. If anyone found a web or a spider, they were to shout, "SPIDER-IDER-IDER!!!" We found one on the gate, and then one way up high on the birdhouse.

On our way to find the spiders, we also found some other great places. We crossed a bridge over the creek, where we stopped to fish with some sticks we found. Then we discovered a big garden, that still had tomatoes and peppers and eggplants and squash. We discovered some wheat growing, and wondered about how wheat turns into bread. We have lots and lots of questions, and are just beginning to figure out how to find the answers.

DON'T FORGET, TOMORROW NIGHT IS BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT!