Our Very Full, Brief Day, In Pictures

We are Thankful for the Turtles!

Have a Wonderful Holiday!

We Got Good Seats to the Concert!

Another busy Choice Time this morning, with friends building, beading, painting, drawing, writing and conducting new sound experiments. New kinds and shapes of construction are developing, as the Turtles figure new ways to configure the blocks. Others played music with bottles, engaging in scientific exploration as they varied the amount of water in each. Beading was another popular activity where the Turtles demonstrated their growing fine motor skills. Our young artists also created some new paintings and worked on writing their names.

We had our Morning Meeting around the snack table, as we did not want to be late for a very important date. Peter Moses came to perform for all of the Early Childhood classes over in the Meetinghouse. All of the children (and adults), were enthralled as Peter sang, played guitar, danced his wooden puppet, and played the trumpet. The kids played instruments, danced and laughed.

Playground time saw more construction as the Turtles worked with the interconnecting blocks to build some more new structures, and we went to bring another load of rocks for the playground.

When we came inside, the Turtles heard Tugga Tugga Tugboat and then got to work with the Smartboard, as they touched pictures of a variety of musical instruments and heard them play. Max's mom read us the book, Toy Boat, before we sang goodbye to our half day friends.

Just Another Manic Monday

The Turtles were revved up and ready to go this morning. They began construction projects almost immediately - a long block path that reportedly had something to do with vampires (we never did get to the bottom of this), and several very fancy magnatile buildings.

At Morning Meeting, we continued our exploration of sound, using glass bottles as woodwind instruments. The bottles were filled with differing levels of water, and the Turtles found it very challenging to try and get noise out of them by blowing across them. Hence, we turned them into percussion instruments, tapping on them with metal utensils, then pouring a little water off and checking how the sound had changed. Then, the Turtles decided to use their instruments to sing a few songs - Jingle Bells, Little Red Caboose and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

We took our snack outside, as it was extra special today. First, we sang a Happy Birthday to Kailyn and ate mini cupcakes PLUS we had cookies made and brought in by Sarah Lynne and her mom. After this snack, we were glad it was time for Movement class!

At Movement Class with Missy, we did stretching, running and then one of our favorite - the obstacle course. Next, we practiced tossing and catching with the beanbags and then throwing them into a target.
We had some time out on the playground, where we had a pretend campfire/marshmallow roast and told stories around the fire, before singing goodbye to our half-day friends. Many Turtles continued making up and telling stories over lunch.