What a Tremendous Tuesday!

Today on this terrific Tuesday we began our day outside for morning drop off.  Dom Dom, Miss Lizzie and all the kiddos made a house in the dome climber where we made chili for everyone. Leina was the head chef and taught all the toddlers how to make the chili.  
We headed inside to have snack, all the talk of chili made everyone hungry for morning snack.  Once we gobbled up our delicious apple slices and bananas we headed over to the art center to have independent time to draw.  Colette drew two pictures for Zoey and one to take home to Jette, Leina was coloring in her coloring book while Zoey and Miss Lizzie read a book in the library.
Once we all finished coloring we headed back to the big table to make snowmen!  We used cotton balls and lots of glitter for the snow!  As we were making our snowmen we sang Frosty the Snowman a couple times :)
As Miss Lizzie was hanging our snowmen to dry the girls cleaned their areas up and headed over to the carpet for circle time.  During circle time Miss Lizzie told everyone of the new activities we have in our Learning Centers.  The girls were very eager to go and explore the new activities.  Zoey immediately went to the Sensory Table to look at shells and rock under a microscope while Leina found lava rocks and neon stars she organized using tongs.  Colette explored using magnets making bracelets and necklaces.  Paige used our color mixing activity to mix and match primary colors.  Everyone cleaned up their activity and came to the writing center.  We used this time to practice writing letters and numbers in our notebooks.  Paige, Leina, Zoey and Colette are really learning how to write their letters very quickly.  We put away our notebooks and headed to the Practical Life center. The girls really love acting as if they are a family with a mom, babies, and sisters.  We then headed outside to continue our dramatic play on the playground.
After lunch, nap and snack we made stained glass hearts to hang in our windows using tissue paper, glue sticks, and clear wax paper.  The stained glass hearts turned out great and look fabulous sin our windows!
We then had some visitors from the infant room!  Mrs. Jackie brought Jackson and Genevieve into sing and dance with us!  The girls absolutely loved singing to them and watching them dance to the sounds of their beautiful voices!  After our dance party we all got ready to go outside for afternoon pickup.  Everyone had an absolute blast today here in the Shining Star Room!