A GRAPE Day!

Today, the Little Frog classroom was invaded by Purple People Eating Monsters! Don't worry though; not all Purple People Eating Monsters are mean; the ones that came to our room were nice! After our quick transformation, we headed outside to pretend we were Monsters who invaded the playground.

We then headed back in to have our Morning Meeting and Moment of Silence...monster style. It is pretty hard for Purple Monsters to sit still, but these monsters are becoming professionals! Instead of saying, "I did it!" after our Moment of Silence, we roared really really loudly! 

During Morning Meeting, Danielle surprised us with a special purple snack of grapes, jelly sandwiches and purple juice! The Purple People Monsters were very excited!

We also examined our cricket again.  The monsters noticed that it grew even bigger! We placed it on our  chart to measure its growth. On Monday it was the length of 3 frogs; Tuesday it was 4 1/2 frogs, and today it was a full 5 frogs. The monsters then realized some had 3, 4 and/or 5 eyes on their heads! 

After Morning Meeting, we started to hear a growling noise! We thought that it might be another monster, but it turned out it was our stomachs! So we decided to eat our purple snacks! We listened to our theme song for the day, "Purple People Eater." During our "grape" snack we decided to go on a Purple People Eater adventure! 

Our Purple adventure started at one of our favorite places, the Puddle Tree! 

Next, we raced to the scary Monster Cave made out of sticks!

We then stopped to check on Aaron and his progress with the steps! At first we scared him because we were dressed like monsters, but we assured him it was just us! The monsters closely examined his work and gave him the Purple Stamp of Approval!

We then headed inside the Lower School Building to continue our Purple Adventure!

Once inside, the Purple Monsters spotted Purple objects. In their teeny tiny monster voices they said, "Purple People Eaters." Then all the Purple People Eaters gathered around and took a vote if it was purple. If the answer was YES! The monster who spotted the object took a picture of it!

We even stopped some friends who were wearing purple and asked if we could take a picture. At first they were scared of us, but we showed them our nice beautiful smiles, and they quickly said YES!

The Monsters did such a great job that we decided to have our lunch outside! The Purple People Eaters let out a loud "ROAR!!!" of excitement!! 

Danielle once again tried to convince the Monsters not to eat their growing food, but they turned and showed their scary monster faces, so she sadly let them eat!

Carol, if you are reading this, the monsters said they wish they could scare you!! They also hope you are having a "purple" (perfect) and "grape" (great) time!! We love you and miss you!!!

Going on a Purple hunt!

The morning started off with book reading. The best part about these storys was that The Little Frogs were the ones doing the reading. Friends gathered around a book while a friend made up a story or retold the story by memory. This is a great step for friends to be at because it is one of the levels before learning to read. 

Next, the Little Frogs met for Morning Meeting and Moment of Silence. During Morning Meeting, we mixed the colors blue and red to see what might happen. Friends were very excited when it turned purple! We then tried mixing red first, then blue, but it still made purple! We then mixed white into our purple... Friends watched as the white and purple made light purple. Then, we mixed black into the purple which made it become a darker purple. Friends found this to be very exciting as well as fun!

We also noticed that our green cricket made some changes over night! We took it out of the water and friends closely examined it and determined that it grew! We matched it up to our measurements from yesterday, and we were right! We marked it on the paper and measured the different lengths by you guessed it, FROGS! Yesterday, the cricket was only three frogs, and today it was 4 1/2 frogs! The Little Frogs then guessed what they think might happen tomorrow. Some believe that it will get bigger and some think that is might get smaller. We cannot wait to see what may happen. 

Danielle read us The Very Hungry Caterpillar during snack to try and distract us from eating our growing food. Don't worry... it DID NOT work!

Since it was a beautiful day outside, we had inside/outside day with the Turtles. Most friends chose to go outside while others chose to play different games inside.

The Little Frogs came up with a new game they called, "Delivery." Some friends would stand under the climber and yell "Delivery!" This meant for other friends to run to the climber and pick up their package. The Little Frogs enjoyed playing this game so much that when we went outside in the afternoon, they continued playing it!

To finish our day, the Little Frogs went on a Purple hunt in our classroom. They went around the room and collected all the purple items they could find. When a friend found an item, they would say, "Purple People Eater."  The Little Frogs did such a great job finding the purple items that we needed to get a large bin to put them in. They also discussed whether the item was light purple, dark purple, or just plain purple.

Tomorrow the Little Frogs are going on a purple adventure to see if we can find more purple items! We cannot wait because we know it is going to be a GRAPE day!!