Just Another Manic Monday!

 The Little Frogs are trying to make some sprouts out of mung beans. Today, we went on the Internet to find instructions about how to do it. Step 1 was to soak the beans in a jar for 8 hours. Friends helped clean the jar, fill it with water and pour in the beans.

 The Little Frogs are practicing their fine motor skills by drilling holes into a branch. Then, we are using wire and threading beads onto it and attaching it to the branch. When it is all finished we will hang it up in our window for decoration.

 Since today is Monday, we had Movement with Missy. We were able to run, jump, dance, and spin! We had so much fun! Missy set up an obstacle course for us where we had to jump in and out of hula hoops, crawl through a tunnel and walk across a balance beam. 

 When we got back to the Little Frogs room we had our Moment of Silence and our Morning Meeting. During Morning Meeting we examined our mung beans and discussed what they may look like when they start to grow.

 We have been talking a great deal about our bodies and our faces - particularly how our faces look when we are feeling in different moods. We have begun to draw our faces using table mirrors, studying our features and expressions. Today, we brought a big container of markers to Morning Meeting that are all different shades of brown and pink and tan, and we discussed how we all have different skin colors. We then looked through our box of markers to see if we could find a marker that matched each of us. Once we found our marker, we colored on a big sheet of paper and wrote our names next to it. This will become a part of our self portrait project.

 If you noticed that your Little Frog is not so little anymore it is because we have been eating a lot of growing food!

We also brought out the power tools, and began drilling our sticks to make beaded mobiles. Using the drill helps friends to strengthen their grips, while drilling a hole all the way through the stick is just a wonderment.

We read a story called Bean and Plant, that showed how beans grow, and talked about what to expect with our beans. Then we read a book called Leaf Man, about a man made of leaves, blowing around and coming across other creatures made of leaves. Friends enjoyed finding the "hidden" images.

At lunch, we talked about the next steps for our mung beans, with many friends contributing ideas. Then, before nap time, we had a dance party!

Working on Being Friend-ish

 Yesterday we read the story of The Little Gingerbread Boy and we loved it! So we started off our morning with one of our new favorite stories! The great thing about this story is that we are learning the words which makes it fun because everyone can read it together!

While others were reading some of us choose to play in the leaf table, as well as paint. 

 Today we had music with Jenny. We learned a song about going to the Aquarium and all the fish that live there. We really enjoyed this song because Jenny had puppets that went along with the song!

 We went back to our classroom where we had Morning Meeting and our Moment of Silence. We decided that it might be fun to read our book while we ate our snack. So Carol read us a book called Ten on a Sled.

 After snack we went on another adventure. We found a tree that had puddles around it and sticks that were stuck in the ground.

 We split up into two teams and quickly raced through the other building to see whose team could go faster. When we finally meet up with one another and caught our breath we went to the Lower School Playground. This playground is not only fun for us but challenging because it is meant for the five year olds.

We were able to practice our gross motor skills here by climbing, digging, sliding and building with the big blocks.

 Most of our friends are now able to climb on the climber all by themselves!

 We ended our adventure at one of our favorite spots, THE ROCK PILE!

 The Little Frogs are working really hard on learning to play with one another. But since all of us have ideas that we think are really fun, we tend to disagree. So we had a discussion at lunch about what we could do to help solve some of these problems, since we love playing together. Some of our suggestions were to say "No Thank You"or "Stop", when friends are being unkind or rough. Others were to give hugs and kisses while some were to just take turns and share. Next week we are going to practice some of our great ideas to see what may work best!