Beating Out the Rain

After some of the Turtles completed one of their favorite morning rituals - Ring Around Daniel (Maggie's dad), we realized that the threatened bad weather had not yet arrived, and decided to spend our early morning outside!

In addition to plenty of running and swinging, we also began work on the stand for our grow light.

All year, the Turtles have been building with imaginary tools to construct their rockets and boats. Today, they got a chance to use a real saw and hammer, and were very excited to have some hands-on experience with real tools.

As we sat down for snack, it started to drizzle. However, led by Robby, the children began to chant, "Rain, rain go away, come again some other day!" Miraculously, the rain held off until we finished eating and headed back inside.

At Morning Meeting, Tamara introduced the kids to peat pots and, during our Moment of Silence, we watched as they soaked up water, changed colors and expanded. We then talked about planting seed, which would be part of Choice Time.

Kailyn took a seat on the Storyteller's Stool to share what she had brought in the Treasure Box.

She read a story to her friends, and then answered questions about the items she had shared with her friends.

Then the Turtles talked about our new project - Writing a Book! The Turtles will be the authors and the illustrators and the readers (because our book will be a Digital Story when we are done). We introduced the idea of "brainstorming" today, and all of the Turtles started thinking of possible characters for our story.

At Choice Time, we planted seeds, continued to work on characters, did puzzles and engaged in the current favorite dramatic play - the family and their pets.

Carol read a new book called, But Excuse Me, That Is My Book, which received many enthusiastic thumbs up from the audience.