Great Tuesday!

It was a beautiful morning at the Sprout! We sang songs and bounced balls outside in the warm sunrays. Asher, Ben (who later had a playdate in the Primary), Theo, and Wren had a blast carrying the black tube around with Dax and Rhys from the primary room. They were making both train sounds and police car sounds! We rounded every one up, making snake hands to slither to the ramp, and then headed up the ramp using a crawl that Theo started. Every one washed their hands and ate a delicious snack of oranges and bananas. Mostly every one has shown us how they've mastered peeling those banana's, but every one still needs help sometimes! Afterward, we transition to the rug and found a fun toy that Teo donated to us. It's an awesome train set! Those who finished washing their hands first took turns trying to open the packaging, and soon every one was involved in building the new train track. Olive and Koichi were especially interested in testing out the new train cars, and Koichi, Noah, Theo, and Asher used team-work to help build the first version of the train track—a large curvy line. Then Dom came to help and Paislie, Alanna, Annabelle, and Olive were excited to start building, too. At this time, Wren and Annabelle were busy savoring their food and having a chat. Annabelle later had fun observing how the train track is built, and Wren helped us shape the track into a circle, and we decided that the train was going to the zoo! Then, Ms. Toni came to visit us for an awesome circle time. Inspired by Abbey Nagler's yoga, we stretched, then decided to play a game of Ohm/Peekaboo where we covered our eyes and hummed, and then said opened our eyes and said peekaboo! Every one had a blast playing this game. Wren, Koichi, Paislie, Alanna, and Annabelle were giggling away during the peekaboo game. Noah and Olive were very busy observing what their friends were doing. We Then, we read a “d” book called My “d” Book. Every one enjoyed identifying dogs, dolls, and ducks. We pretended to drive our dolls to the store. Many of our friends know how to flash their headlights (opening and closing hands), drive, and honk. We also pretended to play the drums by drumming on the floor! Once circle time was over, it was time to head outside. We had free-play and filled the water sensory table for some water fun. Ivy, Paislie, Alanna, and Ben were very excited to climb the dome outside. Then, we brought out the boxes we've been decorating. Annabelle, Theo, Wren, Noah, and Olive were excited to peel stickers, identify shapes and colors and put them onto the boxes. Ivy and Alanna enjoyed decorating their shirts with shapes as well! Soon it was time to come in for lunch and nap!

After nap, Abbey Nagler stopped by to do Yoga with us. We did a quick clean up, and sat down at the carpet for some big hugs and the song that gets us started, with the lyrics “rub your hands, sit up tall, take a deep breath, ohmmmmmmmm.” This works great to get these guys focused. We did the butterfly song as Alanna requested, and Asher rocked out yoga style without a shirt. Annabelle, Noah, and Olive were particularly observant, and Wren, Theo, Ivy, Alanna and Paislie tried hard to mimic exactly what Abbey’s moves were. Koichi was all smiles while we stretched into different yoga positions. We wrapped up with our Namaste song, had snack, and headed out to end the beautiful day!

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” 
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!