Great-to-be-Back Tuesday!

We had a wonderful start to this week with another day full of beautiful weather! It was cold this morning, so we headed in early for a snack of delicious fruit salad. It included oranges, strawberries, and cantaloupe, yum! (Ben headed to the Primary room at this time!) After snack, we went straight to Snarl fish, our classroom put, to give him a few flakes so that he, too, could enjoy snack! Dom guided each child through their interactions with the fish, and every one was sure to use gentle hands with the tank! We asked, “where do fish live?” and Teo gave the clever answer, “in this tank.” After hanging out with Snarl, we sat down to talk about the day of the week and the weather. We sang a couple of songs by request, and went on to read The Peace Book. It's a fabulous book, if you haven't read it yet! We talked about spending time with friends and family, giving hugs, sharing food, wearing different clothes, having a home, and many other things we could relate to. Every one had a chance to talk about “What's on your shirt?” and how we all wear different clothes and that's ok! We said “peace” together and gave each other hugs! Every one had a case of the wiggles, so it was time to jump up and down and march outside! When we got out there, we filled a tub of water and soap, and every one got busy cleaning and pouring. Koichi particularly enjoyed this activity, and stayed at the tub washing and pouring for almost the entire morning! Alanna was happy to find trucks to wash with the soap and water, and was also concerned about her sleeves getting wet...so she rolled them up herself! Asher was into finding large buckets to fill up with water. Ivy, Noah, and Teo moved on quickly to the push carts and cars, and were seen hanging around cruising together! Olive found many different objects to scrub clean with her hands, and was happy to say “bubbles!” as she worked. Paislie spent a lot of time scrubbing away at different objects, and was particularly interested in scrubbing a toy airplane that she found! Later, Wren and Asher were seen in the sandbox, using diggers to move sand in a team effort. Meanwhile, Annabelle was enjoying the breeze. She had fun sailing her ship (the play scape) and turning both wheels at the same time to navigate! Finally, we headed inside for lunch!




It's fun watching every one grab their trays and lunches, trying to figure out how best to transport these items! After lunch we had nap, and when every one awoke from nap, it was just about time for yoga! Abbey came and every one gave her warm yoga hugs! We sang fun yoga songs, and read a book about different kinds of bugs! As Abbey told the story, we acted out each bug using a yoga pose! Wren enjoyed being a lady bug! Ivy shoes us her spider pose (even though a spider wasn't in the book!) Annabelle had her piggy doing poses! Noah was very attentive. We went around in a circle hitting a singing bowl with a stick, and passing the stick to our neighbor. Every one was excited to hear to lovely sound coming from the bowl. Olive was our last friend to have a turn, and she joyfully declined the offer to hit the bowl. Abbey gave the bowl one last hit, and instructed us to put a finger on our nose when we heard the sound stop. We sang our Namaste song, and ended yoga. We had snack, and headed outside to enjoy the weather!