Be my Valentine?

There was lots of hard work going on at the art table this morning. The supplies put out were Valentines cards, glue, foam hearts, markers, and scissors.

Imagination blocks

It began with a block building....

"It's a car, this is how you start it" The child twists his fingers in the air.

"These ones are to make sure no hammer gets it" Points to the blocks added diagonally against the structure.

Then it became a giant car garage...

"Can my car fit here too?"

Fun at the Gym

It was too cold to go outside. But that didn't stop us from having fun. The children had an amazing time in the gym playing in the bouncer. They showed their coordination and they used their gross motor skills to climb up the back of the bouncer and go down on the slide. They were also able to follow directions; they all ran one way to prevent any accidents . The children decided to attach a tunnel to the bouncer to add an additional challenge to their play. This made their play exciting and fantastic! 

Cold cold winter

Exploring in the cold cold snow.

We found ice blocks, they are hard to pick up... We learned, ice is slippery!!

Balancing along the logs, if we fall we get right back up!

A wheel barrel has wheels and a big bucket to hold things. We spin the wheel and try to put ice in the bucket.

Play Dead

This morning one child was singing an Easter song entitled "He's alive again" a little later a group of children began laying down pretending to be dead.

"Our brother died!"
"We need to save him, but he's dead."
Some children acted out grief over the loss of their friend, while others thought of ways to make them better.  Some ideas were CPR, medicine, yelling loudly for them to hear, cymbals, and tickling them to wake them up.

Pirate and Shark Day Adventure

It was the "Sheeps" turn to go to the Large Muscle Room. The children started their play by running around the structure. After a few minutes, they decided to climb on the structure, one decided the structure would be a pirate ship and the rest agreed. Some of the children took and wore customs for the play. 

 

"Hold on tight! We're about to go."

"I'm holding tight"

Swimming fast away from the shark!

"We're safe up here!"

 

Beading and Building

As the weather was so chilly this morning we spent the morning indoors, this is some of what we did....

Lots of us worked hard on making bracelets or necklaces with beads and pipe cleaners. We had to concentrate really hard to pick up those tiny beads and get them on the pipe cleaners, it was a good workout for our little fingers.

A conversation between Landon and Violet
"I'm all done!"
"It looks beautiful"
"Of course it looks beautiful"



While some of us were beading, others were busy at work locking Ms.Penner into a block jail. We thought about how tall it would need to be to make sure it covered way up to her head. We used our big muscles to move all the blocks and we all had to cooperate to get the job done together.