Magic Spells

This morning, many of the Little Frogs had magic wands, and began turning one another into all manner of things. To protect herself, Carol turned Alexander into a glob of Flubber. Then we got worried that he might get mixed in with the rest of the Flubber, so we put him in a large funnel...then a glass vase. But everyone was very concerned that he would start dripping out.

We kept a very close eye on him....

...checked in with experts...

and watched as he oozed out. Soon, other friends had been turned to Flubber.

We left them in the room to go outside to the secret door to search for a water table. We were fairly certain there were monsters in the cellar. There were.

After our Moment of Silence, we brought our Flubberized friends to Morning Meeting to listen to our story: Monsters on Machines. We are becoming quite the Monster Experts.

Then we had another Inside Outside Day with the Turtles.

We set up the water table. It was very popular.

We headed out for a walk. Another friend got to take pictures.

And we spent time in the Upper School looking at art. We found Superman...

...and monsters...

...and cups with faces.

We stopped to sing to our friend, Nancy. She gave us animal crackers. Then we headed back. Just in time for lunch!

Rhinoceros

Our morning began around the tables - first looking at some birds seed bears that a friend of Carol's gave her and trying to figure out how we were going to hang them in what trees, then with the spontaneous invention of some table games (that started off as puzzles).

Before we knew it, it was time for Movement Class. We started off with musical chairs, and then played games with jump ropes. Missy also got out some new balls - soft cubes and footballs - and we stacked them, threw them, caught them and kicked them.

After snack, we had Morning Meeting. We sang some monster songs and read a new monster book, One Hungry Monster.

It received many thumbs up.

After a few "Ring Around the Rosie's," we gathered for a meeting about our book. Carol had printed out a picture of a rhinoceros (one of our characters), from the Internet, and we met to make the character all together. Friends decided that the rhinoceros's body should be blue, and was shaped like a rectangle. We kept looking closely at the picture and figuring out what else our character needed, and friends took turns adding new shapes and parts.

Then we headed out for some adventure. The Little Frogs kept trying to guess what Danielle had in her giant bag - and she kept telling them it was different kinds of animals.

Meanwhile, a couple more friends got to take photographs of things interesting and beautiful.

When we arrived at the tennis courts, Danielle first took out some arches, and told friends that we were going to crawl under them. The Little Frogs were not buying it.

Next, she tossed out a LOT of balls, and we rolled them through the arches. We played many different games while we were there, before it was time to head back inside.