Morning Work

Everyone trying to check out the ants

They are SO fun to watch!!

Claire used the loose parts to create her own bug!

Charlie checking out the ants

Ella having fun with the  magnets

Brody made lots of pictures and spelled the words all by himself!

Mrs Larimore wasn't here today(she is fine just couldn't be here)

and our SUB is also named Melissa...so I told a few kiddos that 

Brody wanted to write Melissa..... I love when inventive spelling starts to happen

Jesus Time:

We did not have an invocation leader today

so I asked the children if anyone wanted to volunteer

Quite a few wanted too, so we tried

something new

The ones who wanted to stood up

and led us and then the rest of us

said the responses

It worked pretty good!

For our Jesus Time story we used these emotion cards..... the story

had Happy, Sad, Surprised and even a part where someone was very mean

As I retold the story of Moses, we talked about how all the stories

in the bible are true(non fiction) A couple of friends felt pretty sad that the King of Egypt made a law that all baby boys had to die. That is super sad.  But the really good news is that God is always with us and he was with Moses then too. His parents came up with a plan

and it worked. Moses was saved!!!

Wyatt was our yoga instructor

He chose tree pose

For second steps, who reviewed so faces and talked about what emotion

each face showed. It is so important to talk about feelings and why we may feel a certain why. It helps children learn empathy!

Earlier in the week, I told the class about something that I had received that made

me feel surprised!!!

Hard to capture on still pictures, but when I hoped this box

butterflies flew out!!! It was so cool and made me feel very surprised.

The butterflies are made from paper and have a rubber band down the middle

When you twist the rubber band really tight and then let it go

the wings flap and the butterfly with fly. It is a little bit of a challenge to

get it back into the box proper, but they children LOVED this!!!

As soon as we stepped outside it started sprinkling, so we went

to our side yard and ran around for a few minutes

After a few minutes, we realized it wasn't going to rain  so we went to the

playground!

Claire was very interested in an acorn she found

Wyatt using his strong muscles

Charlie, our entomologist, studying our ants

Reporting his finding to the class

Ella was the weather helper today

Claire was our prayer leader

Brody was our snack manager

Since it is so windy and chilly we ate inside

Carly did a great has the teacher assistant. She pointed to each letter and asked the

class what letter it is

CENTER TIME

Charlie and Carly worked on their habitats first

Tristan came to work on his too

Mrs Quagliata (or we called her Mrs Q) helping the children get supplies 

for their art creations

Teagan working on her habitat

Nora working on hers

Carly and Brody began making tickets for our bug zoo

Claire working on her habitat

Lots of tickets for our zoo

Brody showed me he made a ticket and money for our zoo

Wyatt working on his habitat

Charlie showing me his tickets for the bug zoo

Bumble Bee, Carly

Ella made this bracelet all by herself

Wyatt studying the ants

Nora was excited to be the exercise leader today

She chose run in place