Morning Work

A new board game

Lifecycle of a Butterfly...

Board games are so great

Teach turn taking

counting

following directions

disappointment(if you don't win)

and so much more

A Very Hungry Caterpillar

book and story pieces

Counting Bears

also used for patterns

or big, bigger, biggest

Fill in the blanks

counting game

coloring

Morning Meeting

A new job...

entomologist--person who studies insects..

our entomologist gets to observe

our caterpillars and then report

what is happening

Harrison S was our attendance helper..

EVERYONE came to school today!!!

16 friends here!

Renesmae was our invocation leader

Ms Steinbacher came to visit

She told us the story of

the men walking to Emmaus

She drew a picture

at first it looked just 

like a person...then she kept adding parts

and then it became

a DOG

In our story , the men walking to Emmaus

were joined by a man...they didn't know it was Jesus

until they shared a meal with him

THEN their eyes were OPENED and 

they could see it was Jesus

then we sang songs 

we also got to use

Alleluia shakers 

Today's helpers

outside

a group of children used the

crates.. one group said it was a stage and the

 other group said it was a bridge

BUT they all happily played together

Aavya was librarian

The book she chose

Simon was weather helper

Millie was prayer leader

Lyla was snack manager

snack

Everyone gets SO excited

when a bird comes to visit

ABC song

a peek at our

caterpillars

they have grown..

Levi was our

teacher assistant

Levi's turn for estimation jar

He added his mini figs

** check your child's folder--I sent home more

estimation jar letters.....

I talked to the children about what it means

to estimate

to make a guess

you don't have to be exactly right

we are just trying to guess what we think

is close

Talked about the size of items in the jar and how big the jar is..

trying to help give clues on how to estimate...

Some are ready for that and some are not

and that is OK.. we also do a lot of 

counting during this time so it helps reinforce counting

CENTER TIME

We have a few entomologist dress up

outfits and the class likes wearing

the outfit and observing the caterpillars...

Dramatic play also has

dress up bumble bee, lady bug

and a few more new items...

SENSORY TABLE

has a lot of colored rice and 

big (plastic)insects

Landon checking out a hornet(dead)

in this jar

Millie made her crown and worked

on her birthday art

JOURNALS

We are going to observe our 

caterpillars over the next several weeks

and draw what is happening

Holly was our exercise

leader

Toe touches

Harrison was yoga instructor

was excited to choose a new posture

and it was a little challenging

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILLIE

Millie's grammy from California

was visiting and read today!!

SO FUN!!

Luke was line leader

and chose this goodbye rhyme