Tuesday

     Today's morning meeting was lead by Sylvia. After morning meeting, we worked in small groups of 2 for math workshop. The children worked together to sort objects by color, then by size. We used all kinds of items from blocks to teddy bears. Sorting is a strange concept when you've never done it before! The children got frustrated, but stuck with it and figured it out.
     After fruit break, we had drama and Spanish. In drama class, the children have been learning about their personal space and respecting other people's personal space. Julie also said they're working hard on using their muscles to strike a pose and hold it. Each child is getting to use their creativity and leadership to come up with a pose and the rest of the class gets to be a follower and copy the pose. In Spanish class, Elena has been teaching the children colors and animals in Spanish. To reinforce colors, Elena gives each of them a stamp on their hand at the end of class. Before she'll stamp them with it, they must tell her the color ink they want in Spanish. Rojo(red) must be an easier one to remember because most of them had red stamps today!! :)
     You may notice your child is either a little muddy or has on different clothes. We had a blast outside today in the water puddles. They were having so much fun filling up the buckets and pails with water I didn't want to stop them. They were experimenting what happens when you add water to the mulch, the sand, and the grass.  They too had to take time to splash around a bit. ;) We'll play in conditions like these a lot this year, so just keep sending me changes of clothes and the rain boots! I hope to have pictures soon. Another teacher took pictures this morning while out during drop-off.
     Ruth Ann (one of our 4-6 year-old teachers) had a last minute doctor's appointment, so her class ate lunch with us today. After lunch, three of her students stayed with us for a sleepover during quiet rest. I loved watching as our class show Ruth Ann's students where everything in the room is. They got to feel like the big kids today!