September 17th, 2012

We began this wonderful Monday morning chasing a grasshopper around the playground. Teo, Joey, Jasper, and Paislie discovered the grasshopper while on their way to the garden. Paislie and Teo found sticks and pieces of mulch they wanted the grasshopper to climb on, but every time they were a little close, he jumped higher in the air. They all thought this was hilarious, and tried to find more things to help our grasshopper friend hop.  We enjoyed the morning outside, and when all of our friends arrived we made our way to the gate, ready to march in for AM snack.

After snack, we explored different colored modeling clay. We gave everyone two popsicle sticks, two googly eyes, and two beads to do with as they wished. Alanna and Koichi immediately went for the googly eyes and stuck them in their clay. Paislie stuck one eye in the clay, then switched the her popsicle stick, where she realized if she stuck it in, it would stay up! Annabelle placed both of the googly eyes on her clay, then pushed the beads into the clay. Ben had fun sticking the eyes and beads in different places of the clay, and Ivy focused hard, placing each material, one by one, into her clay. Jasper was interested in rolling the clay, and bending it, and pulling it apart. While Joey left it the way it was and placed all of his materials into the clay, pushing them down hard to make sure they wouldn’t come off. Asher and Teo used their popsicle stick to cut their modeling clay into little pieces, while Theo asked me to help him roll and make a snake from his modeling clay, we added googly eyes and he slithered away :)

Once we made our way outside, we found some hula hoops to play with. I placed them down on the ground, next to each other, and Jasper, Ben, Ivy, Teo, and Asher all hopped from one hoop to another. We counted as we hopped, then eventually spreading them out, to create a bigger hop! Jasper was a master at this, and all of his friends followed, trying to see if they could hop from one hoop to another! We soon made our way inside for hand-wash, lunch, and nap transition!

After nap, we did our daily routine of books, potties, and milk! All of our friends broke into stations, with Asher vacuuming the floors, Paislie doing some art using markers, Koichi and Ben driving cars up and down the parking garage, and Jasper requesting “yo gabba gabba” dance party! We did a quick clean up, and made our way to the carpet, we danced to some of their favorites, “Hold Still”, “I Like to Dance”, and “There’s a Party in my Tummy”! They had so much fun showing off their dance moves and laughing with friends. Once everyone was all danced out we made our way to the tables for PM snack. After a yummy snack, we put our shoes on and headed outside, where we free played with our Primary and Pre-Tot friends.

What an awesome way to start the week :)

Love

Dom and Jackie