Family!

Hello Families!

We had a great week in the Tulip classroom! This week we talked about families. In circle time we sang "I love you, You love me..." and we learned the signs for "mama" and "daddy." To do these signs you spread out your fingers and tap your thumb on your chin for "mama" and on your forehead for "daddy." Ronav really caught on to these signs and he enjoyed showing us his skills. He has also been a great friend to his classmates--when one of them is sad he goes up to them and chats with them. 

Finn has been very interested in stacking blocks--he makes tall towers and laughs as he knocks them back down. Because we spent so much time inside this week, we have been singing all the songs we can think of over and over again. Malik enjoys singing along or just striking up a tune on his own. Avey had a blast this week playing the xylophone. He has also been giving out lots of hugs! 

In addition to dancing whenever he hears a song, Miles has been enthusiastic about helping us clean up after nap. He picks up many of his friend's napmats and throws them over the blue divider. Naomi has also been excited about helping clean up nap mats and she loves to laugh with her friend Finn. Livio has been talking up a storm. He will repeat almost anything that we say and he knows almost all of his friend's names. 

Julia enjoys having stories read to her. She often picks a book, sits down in one of our laps, and listens as we read to her. Luke always has a smile for his teachers and his friends. He loves playing peek-a-boo through the Plexiglas in the classroom divider! 

This week we also shared pictures of our families. The children loved looking at all the mommies and daddies--they even gave kisses to the pictures of their own and their friend's mommies and daddies!

We did a lot of activities this week. On Monday we made "family trees" using crumpled up tissue paper as leaves. The children said "pat pat pat" as they patted the tissue paper onto the glue we had put on the paper. On Tuesday we worked on our signs for "mama" and "daddy." On Wednesday we decided to rake up a pile of leaves and have some good, old-fashioned, autumn fun! The children had a blast   throwing the leaves in the air and watching them fall back to the ground. On Thursday we made stars of David by gluing together triangular pieces of paper. We then outlined the star with a line of glue and the children shook glitter onto it. On Friday we made elf hats using construction paper and cotton balls. Hopefully we can get some pictures of them in their hats next week :) We also made dreidels using  strawberries and pretzel sticks which stuck into the top of the strawberries. They made a fun and delicious snack.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend! Stay safe and warm!

<3 Magdalen