The teachers have turned the housekeeping center into a "Vet Clinic" in the exploratorium. The children delighted in using their imaginations to heal the pets. Some of the interactions that we heard included telephone calls, plans to help an animal, and negotiations for a favorite tool.
We celebrated our first birthday by listening to the birthday book, singing Happy Birthday in English and Spanish, and eating a healthy snack!
Printing circles with a variety of cups, tubes, and pots using red/rojo and yellow/amarillo paint was a center time activity. Some of the children discovered when you mix red and yellow, orange is created!
Outdoor Play includes a variety of equipment. Walking on the black border is one way that the children practice keeping their balance as they walk. Other children use balance buckets to refine their balance skills.
At morning circle, we sang Make New Friends. We held a plastic dolphin and named one of our new friends in our class at Shorecrest! Each child was able to decide who they were going to hand the dolphin to next.
At center time on Thursday, Mrs. Samuel shook the Magic Basket and we guessed what was inside. Some of the guesses included "fish, dinos, Sponge Bob, birthday cakes, horses, and paintings!" After everyone had a guess, we discovered bottles of glue. Next came a center time activity which included gluing photocopies of our friends onto a piece of paper using "little dots of glue, wooo!" We will send these projects home this coming week. Please hang up the pictures and ask your child who they ate snack with or who they played with on the playground. We put a key on the back to help you. The children are very proud when they come home and can tell you a new friend's name!
Ms. Fenech read I Need a Hug! by Clara Barton Elementary Students.
Some of the other books that we read this week included:
Bear Shadow by Frank Asch
There's a Wocket in My Pocket by Dr. Seuss
Hug by Jez Alborough
Chicka Chicka 1-2-3 by Bill Martin Jr.
