A windy Tuesday!

Today Sophie and Gage were the first pre-tots to arrive at school. They played in the dome with the toddlers and primary friends, singing songs and pretending to cook food. Olive arrived and said goodbye to her mom while looking at her over the fence and then proceeded to play with a scoop she found. Clara arrived shortly afterwards and found an empty bubbles container to carry around. Sophie decided to do the same thing. Wynn arrived next and hung out with Gage on the playscape together.

                We went in for snack and Ancel arrived. Jackie (from the infant room) and three of her little friends (Judah, Jackson, and Genevieve) were already hanging out in our classroom since their younger friends in the infant room were napping and they were wide awake. It was fun having visitors in our class, especially familiar ones who will someday be in our class!

                The three guests joined us for circle time and we sang the Hello song to everybody, then talked about dogs, looked at dog books, did the hang sign for dog, and make dog sounds. Then our monkey puppet gave everybody a kiss and asked them to please get ready to go to the deck.

                When we arrived on the deck it was windy and chilly, so we only stayed a little while. Gage pulled a rolling toy around, Wynn played with a scrub brush, Clara gave everybody kisses with a duck watering can, Olive carried around another scoop, Gage sat down and chilled in a bumbo, and Sophie and Ancel wandered around seeing what everybody was up to. We went inside early since it was cold and rejoined the three infants in our room. Then we played with them and sang some songs with Jackie. Clara enjoyed wearing a bead necklace and Olive rocked out on the xylophone. Wynn, Ancel, and Gage did some art and Sophie practiced opening and closing markers.

                When it was time for lunch we said goodbye to our visiting friends as they left for their classroom. We talked a lot about animal sounds during lunch and identified what everybody was eating, as usual. After lunch we looked at books and then went to the nap area, where we used the big fan which we have been using since last week. We’re seeing if it helps increase the amount of time that they sleep by making the room nice and cool, as well as providing more noise. After nap we plan to do our activity from yesterday, gluing dried leaves. We were going to use the felt board but primary is currently using it, so we’ll just do what we didn’t get to do yesterday instead and enjoy the felt board next week. It’s been a swell Tuesday!