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!!

Building Steps

The Little Frogs day started off visiting our friend Missy for Movement. We had lots of fun! Missy taught us a game where we pretended we were bumble bees, and we buzzed around the room. When Missy said "Freeze!," we froze and did what Missy said. Missy had us match up our elbows, toes and fingers to another friend. The Little Frogs especially enjoyed the part where we had to give hugs!

Next, Missy suprised us with a parachute! We made the parachute look like the ocean as well a Merry-Go-Round. Then, we each took a turn sitting underneath of it as our friends made it go up and down. 

It was hard work playing with the parachute, so we laid our bodies on top and took a quick rest! Before Movement was over, we finished up with our favorite activity, playing with the balls!

We headed back to our classroom for Morning Meeting and Moment of Silence.

During Morning Meeting, we found more purple objects! We then talked about a box that was in our room when we got in this morning. Danielle read the box to us, and it said, "To: The Little Frogs From : Carol." The Little Frogs were so excited Carol left them a present! Friends were trying to figure out what was in the box. Some friends guessed it was lots of toys, a nut cracker and a huge crocodile. Friends are going to keep guessing what they think it could be, and then we will open it on Thursday. 

While some friends were playing this morning, they found a big green cricket! We measured the cricket and placed it in a jar full of water to see if anything might happen (we explained that we do not put real crickets in water, only FAKE!). Stay tuned because the cricket should make some changes by tomorrow!

Since it was so beautiful out, we suited up with our safety gear, hard hats and goggles, and headed out for an adventure. We walked across campus to the Tyson House where we found Aaron building steps! Since we came prepared, we were able to help him build! Since the Little Frogs were so helpful, the steps will hopefully be finished by the end of the week!  

We then headed inside the Tyson House to say "hello" to all of our friends that were working.

To finish up our day we went to the Lower School playground to play. The Little Frogs are now experts on most of the playground activities. It is a good thing that they have been eating their growing food because they are getting so big...they barely need help!