9-27-2012

We began our day watering the garden! Paislie, Teo, joey, Alanna, and Asher were all excited to help me. joey found a watering can which we filled up and used for the trees. While Jasper and Wren explored wrens Thomas train, that makes sounds! We made our way inside for snack, when we got a visit from Miss Toni. She sat and sang songs while one by one they washed their hands! She sang some of ther favorites, so a few friends were reluctant to get up from the singing circle! As Toni said goodbye and made her way to the pre tot room, everyone sat for some sweet cantaloupe and grapes! After snack, we had an awesome bubble filled, dance party to yo gabba gabba! Jasper, Joey, Alanna, Asher and Ivy all had fun showing their dance moves, while Koichi, Paislie, Wren, and Teo tried to pop as many bubbles as possible! After dance party we marched out to put shoes on and head to the playground.
Teo brought a pop-up book called "Salamander Rocks", so we decided to read it outside! Everyone sat as I turned each page and a new animal would pop up, we went over colors and our numbers all throughout the book. Once we finished, everyone thanked Teo and went their separate ways exploring. After a bit, Jackie brought out the tunnels, everyone took turns crawling through, they worked together and had patience as one friend waited on another to get to the end. Some of our friends enjoyed laying in the tunnel, while others crawled quickly to see how fast they could go! We explored the tunnels up until it was time for lunch.
After nap, some of the early risers worked on their letters, Paislie, Teo, Alanna, Wren, Asher, and Koichi. We used stencils and washable paint in squirt bottles to stencil out the first letter of them name. They thought it was so cool to see their letter once they lifted the stencil. Once everyone was awake, we cleaned up, did diapers and went to stations. Very soon after,  Ms Leona made her way inside for Spanish, we sang our routine hello songs, then Ms Loena passed out the bells. Everyone shook their bell as we sang, and enjoyed "dinging" them together! We said our goodbyes, and made everyone made their way to the table for snack. Once everyone was all done, we washed hands and marched our for a very chill afternoon and pick-up.

Much love
Dom and Jackie