Inside/ Outside Day on a Wednesday!

This morning was the return of The Little Frogs Block Band! During Free Time friends built a drum set out of the classroom's big blocks. Friends were drumming and singing to Jambo and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. After we were tired of playing our own music we put our favorite song on the radio ( you guessed it Dynamite) and played Freeze Dance!

Before cleaning up Carol read some friends the book, Herbert the Timid Dragon. The Little Frogs could not stop laughing at Carol's timid dragon voice.

Next, friends cleaned up the room super fast so they could hide from Carol who was in the hallway! First, we tried to hide in the Cozy Box, but not all friends could fit since they have been eating their growing food! So we decided to hide in the Block Area.

We were waiting very patiently and quietly when we heard the door open, it was Carol! When she walked in she said "Where have all the Little Frogs gone?". Thats when we jumped up and screamed "BOO!". Friends were laughing so hard because we scared the potatoes and applesauce out of Carol!

After a delicious snack of alien eyes and noses (apples and Chex) we met for Morning Meeting. Carol read us a book called The Guinea Pig ABC. Whenever Carol read a page that had a letter that was in our name we had to jump up! The Little Frogs are becoming very good at knowing how to spell their names!

Carol and Danielle tried to have a Moment of Silence by themselves but we would not let them! They kept saying "Don't close your eyes!" but we sat nice and still and quiet!

We then read a book called Ten, Nine, Eight. This book was tricky because we had to count different items like toes, sneakers, stuffed animals and buttons! But just like Carol and Danielle this book could not trick us!

To finish off our day we went to the Turtle Room for Inside/Outside Day! If you are thinking what Danielle was thinking "Inside/Outside Day on a Wednesday! Thats ridiculous!", but it was not ridiculous it was FUN!!

Friends who played outside were digging, climbing, running and swinging!

While other friends were inside playing with the cameras and cars!

After Inside/Outside Day we headed into our classroom to give Carol and Danielle all of our growing food to eat!

The Benefits of Risk

The Benefits of Risk in Children's Play
This is worth viewing, and thinking about.

Ice Balls!

Our rainy day began with art and sand. We also took some time to check in on our ants, who have made a few new tunnels and seem to have recovered from their traumatic move yesterday.

There were also some amazing new structures being built in Frog teams and groups!

At Morning Meeting, we read a very tiny book called, Tall. Friends were able to read most this book, because it only has a few words that rhyme. So, they would look at the pictures, figure out what was going on, and then figure out what the word was (sometimes Carol would give them the sound of the first letter). They were very excited to realize that they can read!

At Choice Time, the most popular choice were the Ice Balls! These were literally balls of ice each with a surprise frozen inside each one. Friends put on their safety goggles and took hammers and CRACKED the ice!

Others took some time to compose some tunes on our new keyboard.

Friends tried some different tactics to get the treasures out. While they worked with their ice balls, we wrote down their observations about ice in our Notebook.

Then we headed out into the rain. We checked for puddles, and counted how many there were on the puddle tree.

We spotted some new flowers.

We found a monster!

We stopped to talk to our friend, Justin. He teaches math in the middle school. His students were doing a worksheet, and we helped them get the answer to #33.

We gave the camera to friends, to take pictures of interesting things we found.

This is how some of the pictures on the wall look, when you are a Little Frog.

We visited our art. On our way back, we met up with our favorite truck driver, who brings food to the cafeteria. He honked the horn for us and we headed back for lunch.