Friendship, Dancing and the Vet Center

New friendships are budding each day as the children learn more about each other through engaging in different classroom activities. A lot of smiles and laughter are observed when the children are busy dressing up and role playing in the dramatic play area.

During Circle Time each day The Friendly Frogs enjoy singing songs, reciting finger plays, reading books and engaging in sharing activities where they are able to express themselves among their classmates. Rolling the ball to a friend and greeting them by saying, "My new friend is..." was a popular group sharing activity this week. Recently the boys and girls learned a new song entitled, "Driving in My Car." While singing we pretend to drive in our cars, put our sunglasses on, wrap scarves around our neck and place hats on our heads! The children enjoy singing this song with friends in dramatic play.

One of the responsibilities for the frog of the day is to count the number of days we have been in school and then add the number for that day on the wall. When sequencing numerals 1-20 in a large floor puzzle, the children remembered our number chain and used it as a reference to order their numbers. What a great connection!

The boys and girls look forward to Tuesdays when Mrs. Gootson comes to share a book with us and sing songs.

Those pincher fingers are busy again lacing string through holes, as they make their way around the edges of a circle.

Circles are popping up everywhere, even at snack!

"Little dots of glue, whew," was chanted as each child made their very own friendship collage. We first learned how to make little dots of glue on the paper and turn the glue bottle back over before attaching each friends's picture to their collage. It was a treat to see the smiles on their faces as they recognized their friends.

Inviting a partner to dance in Music was very exciting. The children used nice manners when asking and waited patiently for their turn.

The children sang "What's a Friend For?" while dancing about with their partners. Some of us might be ready for "Dancing With the Stars" real soon!!

 In P.E., Coach Every, Coach Pope and Coach Wolfrath have been working on balance and personal space with Alpha students.

The doctors and nurses in the new veterinary office in the Exploratorium have been busy seeing dogs, cats, fish and many other animals. Taking the animal's temperature is one important job.

Scheduling upcoming appointments,

using a stethoscope to hear the animal's heartbeat,

bandaging a wound and

reading x-rays are keeping the veterinarians quite busy!

There is excitement in the water table where the children are exploring many types of insects and spiders.

Soon after reading the book, "The Teeny Weeny Tadpole" by Sheridan Cain, the children made a fascinating observation. Two of the large tadpoles in our Exploratorium aquarium had new little legs!

It was fun to meet our new Middle Division friends who came to play with us after rest time. We look forward to their next visit!











Some books read this week:

"Dog and Bear" by Laura Seeger
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" by Eric Carle and Bill Martin, Jr.
"Clifford's Book of Manners" by Norman Bridwell

Dates to remember:
9/21 1st Exploring
9/25 Field Trip to Crisp Park