Acorns enjoyed another fun day inside. They continued to play with gak and created new designs with markers. They built new creations with many different types of magnetic materials. They also played with frogs in the sand.
Acorns spent the morning indoors. Acorns listened to the book, “The Snowy Day” and then described what they did on their snowy days. After lunch Acorns created an indoor crosswalk and walked on it while the video of them walking on an outdoor crosswalk played.
After we filmed the Acorns walking across the crosswalk yesterday, we planned to project them on the wall for this morning. They were ecstatic seeing themselves on the wall. They were shocked, they giggled, they laughed, they called out their own names when they appeared on the screen. We love to hear them giggle. There is nothing like 13 children giggling. Here is a peek of the joy the Acorns created today.
"I am the acorn that become the oak."- John Winger
Parents As Teachers finished screening the Acorn Room today. We are happy to partner with PAT in a collaborative effort to meet all the children's needs! Thanks so much! A PAT representative will be contacting you in the upcoming weeks to finish the parent portion of the screening. If you have questions feel free to us.
We were lucky enough to have PAT visit the room today!! There are beginning to complete the screening process for the Acorn Room. PAT will be contacting each set of parents to complete your portion. After it is complete you may make an appointment with them to discuss the screening.
The cold weather kept the Acorns inside this morning. We weren’t the only ones spending time inside. Two birds took turns going into one of our birdhouses outside our window. We love looking at and learning about nature even when we need to stay inside.
Acorns got to choose from several activities inside besides bird watching. We built new creations with magnetic cubes or floats and straws. We drew with dry erase markers and tried to cut paper with scissors. We also explored different sensory materials.
We were very busy today, it was obviously too cold for us to venture outside, so we explored indoors. We read a new book about Recycling and how to make our world a better place. We clapped it out, talked about the first letter (R) and the sound it makes. We then discussed items that can be recycled.
We had the crosswalk projected
Kinetic sand
Sensory Table
Water Bins
Dry Erase Boards
Magic Sand Table
Old Phones and the Tree house. We hope it warms up soon......
It was wonderful to see all the smiling faces this morning! Everyone was very excited to be back and very talkative. We added some NEW routines to our daily routine. Our expectations are increasing because it is the New Year!
While we were doing morning potty time, one of the new activities is to come work on spelling your name with scrabble letters. We will alternate this with writing our names in a few weeks, and also counting and matching numbers with items. Stay tuned to the blog when we move on to writing our letters!
