Rainy...Not so rainy Monday

     The weather can't make up it's mind today! I certainly know how it feels sometimes. We've been getting a couple minutes of heavy downpours followed by the warm sunshine. Needless to say, the children haven't been outside to play today (other than during morning drop-off).
     We began our day with Ashlynn leading us through morning meeting. We then read some poems from the book A Little bit Scary by Gill Davies.

We then took images from the book (a dancing skeleton, a bat, a box of tissues, a monster, etc.) and decided if they are real or make-believe. We then charted them - they went on one side if they were real, and the other side if they were make-believe. The children did great! I'll leave the chart in our room for a while for the children to look at. Please come in the room and take a look at it for yourself. The children sorted over 30 items.

     Afterwards, we had fruit break and played in the room for recess. We then headed off to music class and back to our room for reading buddies with Katie's class. Our buddies read us a story and we told them our favorite thing from the book. They wrote it down and we worked together to draw a picture from the book.

     Before recess, we took a few minutes to make a chart of our apple tasting from last Thursday. I made a chart with their names and a picture of all 4 apples we tried last week. I gave the children a picture of themselves and they were to find their name and place their picture in the column of their favorite apple. We totaled them and discovered the Grimes Golden was the top pick (there were 6 votes for this one!). If you happen to see these at the store or market, please pick some up and give them a try - after you buy them, of course. They're similar to a Golden Delicious, but sweeter (if you can imagine). This chart is hanging on the cabinets in our room, above the children's cubbies. Alongside the chart is our apple stampings from last week with our buddies in Betsy's class. Please, come in and look! :)