molding clay and shaving cream!

The day began just like any other, and just before we headed inside for snack, Alanna, Paislie, and Theo decided to lay in the yoga mats, taking turns giving eachother pats and sending each other off to sleep. We went in and had a delicious snack of apples and bananas, each friend had fun peeling their banana's themselves, and Theo and Teo showed interest in putting their peels in the compost, so we past it around and let every one contribute their peels to the small pile. We headed to the carpet for circle time, using cars, trains, and tracks to help us transition. Cars never get old for these guys! We saw that Teo had brought a book from home, I believe it was called The House Where Every one is Sleeping. Every one was really into the book, and at the end of every page, we said the word SLEEPING together. I noticed some of our guys are good at making snoring sounds! We sang the days of the week, and of course Asher, Teo, Theo, Alanna, Ivy, Koichi, and Ben showed us how to start a beat for the the days of the week song! We sang to our hearts desire and talked about the weather, then headed to the tables for some play dough play!

We used Crayola Molding clay, and you didn't have to tell Annabelle, Ben, Joey, and Ivy twice...they were so eager to use the fun stuff! We started off with one blue ball, identified the color and the shape together, and then a yellow "worm," and then a red worm, and then a green ball. Koichi immediately put his together, while Ivy, Annabelle, Paislie, and Alanna, and Teo, Theo, Joey, and Annabelle all had a similar idea of creating a kind of lollipop with their popsicle stick and ball of clay. Asher was busy figuring good places to put googly eyes. Wren successfully made a tree, stabbing the green clay ball with four sticks. Ben was happy to stick beads in his clay and show us the strange creature he made. We poured a sprinkle of glitter on the table, and every one had fun rolling their clay in the glitter to make it stick. Annabelle was very quick to figure out the sticking technique, while Koichi figured out how to get one speck of glitter at a time to stick to his googly eyed creature at a time. It was great fun to see every one doing such creative things!

We cleaned up and on our way out, we had a fun surprise for the kiddos before we went out to the big back yard, We put shaving cream in their hands and on the windows outside the pre-tot room. They had a full-blown sensory experience while the pre-tots watched like an awesome audience from inside. We wrote letters in the mess and got it all over the floor and rails. We sang the alphabet, wrote the alphabet, and we wrote big letters of the first letters of every one's names. While every one was still covered in shaving cream, we were able to snap a couple of photos. We headed outside for a few minutes of free play.

We came in for lunch and nap. After we got up, it was time for a delicious snack of garbonzo beans, cherry tomatoes, pita chips, and a few cheerios. Dom had time for a quick alphabet lesson before Ms. Leona joined us for Spanish time and we had a blast dancing to "Mi Cuerpo." We sang the Itsy Bitsy Spider and Ms. Leona brought out her spider puppet, which was making every one laugh, especially Joey, Koichi, Ben, Paislie, Joey, and Asher. We wrapped up and it was dance party/free play time. Got our shoes and sunscreen on and headed outside to end the day!

Love,
Dom and Jackie