Wonderful Wednesday in the Primary Room!

Day 2 of our new school year is in the books, and what a pleasant day it was!  

Jasper and Miya were exploring the new car outside, and Dax and Ben came to check it out also.

Our morning sensory started with Ms Toni checking on the baby carrots in the garden. She then explained with plenty of water and sun, our fruits and vegetables have grown to be very big! We took them to the picnic table to offer anyone who wanted a taste. 

Once the toddlers and pre-tots made their way inside, Toni had all primary friends (except for jette, zoe, and leina) come to the picnic table and turn on their listening ears for todays first presentation of a lesson. She first explained the importance of focus and patience, when carrying a tray. She acted out a scenario that had me play the "guide" and she played the "Sprout", she showed everyone how lessons are on trays, and in order to work on a lesson, first there must be a presentation done by a teacher, showing them how to use the particular material.

secondly, they all found objects to put on their tray and practice carrying around the playground. First they walked slowly along the border, then inched their way onto the border, balancing while holding onto their tray. Some friends move quick, trying to keep up with her, while others stayed behind focusing on their tray and steps. 

Lastly, was our inside demonstrations/presentations of lesson and new work centers. We first made our way to the MATH center, where there are various counting and sorting lessons. Next is the WRITING center, with different lessons to practice their writing from lined paper, to construction paper, to dry erase markers to practice with. The CONSTRUCTION center was next, which was most of the boys favorite center, as they got to be as creative as possible creating roads and tracks for their vehicles to drive on. 

DRAMATIC PLAY was next, followed by the PRACTICAL LIFE center and SCIENCE center, which seemed to fascinate everyone as they noticed the magnet lesson and weather tellers in the science center. 

As we woke up from nap, one by one each friend rolled up their nap mat, and got ready to start their afternoon! Today, we worked on mobiles to hang in our classroom and some to gift to our baby friends! 

We went on a nature walk, to find natural materials to hang.They collected leaves, twigs, branches, pine cones, and sunflower leaves (which are huge!) Then we took them to the deck and added them to our other materials we had. 

On one table, we set up index cards, glue, glitter, different colored pom-poms and much more. On the other table, friends could paint their natural material.  It was a huge success and the babies were super excited to receive their mobile and thanked all my friends. (the teachers thanked us, not babies :) )  by that time it was time to clean up, and make our way outside.




Dom