New Spaces for New Adventures

Track was laid out agin today, for a long run.

There was letter writing with sticks,

drawing,

and puppets.

Then, because photos were being taken in the John Barnes room, we had music in our classroom.

Jenny brought her guitar and her drum and her tamborine.

We sang and danced and clapped and played the rythm sticks.

Then we had Morning Meeting. For the first time, we brought in our stick suggestion box, and it had a bunch of ideas in it. We are going to test some of them out and see about adding them to our book.

At Snack, we discussed rearranging our room and talked about what friend would like to have in it. One friend suggested an ice skating rink, so we got an ice cube to test whether or not it would be cold enough for ice skating in our room. It melted.

We decided to change the block area and make it bigger, but first we had to move out the rug. It was heavy, and friends spent quite a while trying to figure out how to get it out of there. Rolled up, it was also just fun to play on. We finally got it out of there, with some impressive teamwork.

Then we moved some heavy shelves and put down a new puzzle floor.

Then it was time to go and have our pictures taken. We cheered each other on and practiced smiling while we waited. We could nor wait to get to the playground for some well-deserved running around.

You Have a Giant Head

We introduced a new track to our room today-one that would allow the Frogs to assemble it themselves. We are also working on developing a greater sense of where our bodies are in space - in relation to the toys we are using and to one another. The track provides an opportunity to maneuver in close proximity to one another and try and keep the roads together at the same time. There were lots of "road repairs" today, and a lot of fun.

At one friends request, we also got out the watercolors and had a lesson in how to use them. Friends had fun creating and experimenting and producing some beautiful art.

At Morning Meeting, a friend brought in his book and CD, Puff the Magic Dragon, and friends enjoyed both listening and singing along.

Our friend the Turtles followed the green arrows to our bulletin board and then to our mailbox. This is  our suggestion box to use for getting more ideas and information about sticks. Please feel free to add your own thoughts to our project.

Outside, we discovered some major changes in the leaves. We had our magnifying glasses with us, and noticed how big they made our heads look!

And some more interesting sticks...

...many of which were quite peel-y.

We also attempted to measure our stick in Little Frogs. Turns out it was 4 and 1/2 Little Frogs long.

Then we went into the Lower School, and spotted lots of cool things on the walls.

We visited the library to pick up some new stick books, and return some books we had borrowed.

Then we found some objects on the table with a box that said, "What Is That?" So the Little Frogs took turns guessing and Carol wrote down their answers and put them in the box.

We got to spend some time at the kindergarten playground.

We also spent some time at our rock pile - building all kinds of muscles.

Please remember: Tomorrow is picture day!