HAPPY FRIDAY

WE HAVE MADE IT THROUGH

3 DAYS!!!!!

3 Friends who had their

1 st day today

This is how we sign in each morning

The children look for their

own name and then put it on the  I AM HERE board

Great for name recognition

we also use it for

attendance (our attendance helper

counts how many friends came to school each day)

If someone is absent, we talk about that and add

that child to our prayer requests

I want each child to feel how much we 

want them at school each day

and helps us grow together as a class

family......

The children put all their items in their cubbies,

 sign in and then wash their hands

Then get to choose a morning

work activity

Calvin chose these colorful blocks

to build with first!

Luke and Ben wanted to

do this puzzle first

Maisie trying out

the blocks

Charleigh started with 

these stickers(to create a face

 and frog cutouts

Maisie coloring at the writing table

Calvin made a frog

Otto excited to build

a tall tower of pegs!

Samuel checking out the blocks

Otto decided to make a frog

Rowen building with the blocks

These blocks were donated from Ellie's 

family---- they have a family member who 

owns a parrot shop and these 

blocks are actually parrot toys....

But so cool to create with!!

Arwen is doing play

doh with Maisie

Arwen excited to show me what she 

created with the blocks

When morning work is over

we clean up and then come

sit on the blue carpet

When on the blue carpet the children

can chose how they would like to sit

NOT everyone is comfortable in the same position

nor sitting in same position the WHOLE time.

So I tell the children it is their

CHOICE to decide how their body is comfortable----

I just ask that their bottoms stay on the

dot with their name on it----

EXAMPLES OF SITTING POSITIONS:

MOUNTAIN

(sitting on your knees)

Charleigh and Calvin

demonstrating the 

LOUNGE position

(which is legs in front of you)

Lucas and Austin demonstrating

CRISS-CROSS

APPLESAUSE

Rowen is also showing us

CRISS-CROSS
APPLESAUCE

And MERMAID

(legs bent to one side)

NOW YOGA......

We practiced each

pose..

This one is 

SURFER POSE

Here is our YOGA CHART

Once jobs start, our yoga

instructor will chose 1 pose

and stand in the middle and demonstrate

to the class how to do it!

TREE POSE

SKI POSE

DOWNWARD DOG

OWL POSE

Next we sang a song

to help us learn each others

names

Charleigh was our

attendance helper

11 friends at school today

LINING UP TO GO

OUTSIDE

Calvin was a door holder

Lucas was our

other door holder

Rowen was Gate Keeper

BEAUTIFUL WEATHER

Our Mud Kitchen

WOW!!! The tunnel is FUN!

Calvin wanted to explore

the tunnel too

Our playground is designed 

to encourage children to 

take "safe risks"

For example,

using the wooden stumps to

get up and down from

the "mountain"

going down the slide

Climbing these tires...

another great

"safe risks"

For some the lowest is where they

feel safe.

But it is the BEST to watch a child

start out at the lowest

tire and work their way up!

Sometimes they are really 

feeling confident and

will stand up and then jump off

OR they stand and decided---maybe I will sit to get

down---either way

they are learning what they are

capable of and feeling

empowered to make that choice!!

Today I enjoyed watching Lucas start at the lowest

and work his way

all the way to the highest!!!

STORY TIME

Austin was our

weather helper

The weather helper choices

what the weather is like today

and then makes it on the chart.

Many things happened with this today

As Austin put up the 2nd sunny

the kids immediately said

We have had 2 sunny days and 1 rainbow!!!

YES!!!! Learning through the environment

around them!!!

Otto was our prayer leader

Here is a picture of 

the prayer

he chose today

(whoops--- I didn't realize it flipped)

Luke was our

snack manager today

SNACK MANAGER

calls the friends to snack

A great way to encourage learning

a friends names

FIRE DRILL

About 15 mins before, I talked with

the children about what to do for a 

fire drill.  Today we did the drill WITHOUT

the loud sound!! Just our principals came around

and said FIRE DRILL.

I explained to the children when I say

go stand on a STOP SIGN, they should stop whatever they are doing, leaving

 everything right where it is and line up on the stop signs.

We then exit the building and go across the parking lot.

We stand on the white line while we

are being accounted for------ it went

very smoothly!!!

Back inside to finish snack

HAND WRITING WITHOUT TEARS

yesterday I introduced

BIG LINE

and 

LITTLE LINE

showed them how we can use lines

to form letters.......

everyone was so excited to 

tell which letters

these are....

We then got to use the

lines for activity about following directions......

First direction:

please keep the lines in front of

you until the music starts

SO HARD>>>>

But look at these kiddos!!!

They are doing it!!!

we then listened to 

Tap, Tap Tap song

which gives lots of directions

and how to move the lines!!!

The children LOVE this!

CENTER TIME

WE EXPLORES THE REST OF THE CENTERS

WE HADN'T USED YET!

Blocks

All the manipulatives.....

ART EASEL

A FEW FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

PHOTOS......

Samuel enjoying the dramatic play

Calvin building

Rowen enjoying the

work bench

Samuel Painting

I did some individual work with the 

children today too

Self Portraits

(Otto checking himself out

in the mirror)

Arwen ad Charleigh

enjoyed art today!!

How tall I am??

I am taking everyone's picture

at beginning of the school year

and then again at the end

I am always SO surprised 

how much they grow!!!

Austin wanted to do art

today too

TRAINS

Calvin wanted to use the art easel

Part of using the art easel is

filling the cup up 1/2 way

so you have water to paint.....

Encourages independence!!!

Lucas really enjoys the magnetic 

blocks

Samuel

Austin asked Lucas if he

could play with him

At the end of center time,

we clean up and then

go to the blue aroet

for exercise time

PUSH UPS

Arwen has been expressing

interest in the musical

instruments the last 2 days...

So today we had enough time

to PLAY music

each child got to chose

one instrument to play and then 

after one song

we put each instrument back in the middle and 

I chose different children to pick

first BECAUSE many wanted the 

same instrument. We did talk about

how you may NOT get the one you wanted the most

---BUT that is OK---you still get to play an instrument and

we will have LOTS of opportunities  throughout the year

to play!

get YouTube video for 

young kids to play along

teaches following direction and

rhythm (shaking or playing

to a beat)

the children didn't want to stop

But we needed to put the

instruments away for prayer

PRAYER

Everyone got to say

THANK YOU JESUS

FOR>>>>>>

In or week or 2, we will

learn about Prayer Requests

Our Good Bye Rhyme

provided opportunities throughout the day

for rhyming is an important to develop

language formation, learning about sounds and words.

And helps children develop early literacy skills!

FLY HIGH, BUTTERFLY