Hedgy Hedgehogs Prepare for the Winters Sleep….
We thank Sasha and her family for the beautiful flowers this week.
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Our story this week was about hedgy hedgehogs early prep for his winter sleep, while squirrel nutkin decides to keep working to gather nuts even on the chilliest days so that she can store them away. We observed the changes in the sky, the feel of the wind temperature and the rain fairies bringing drinks to the earth.
Hey parents, do we really want our kids eating stone soup???? Poor little guys. We told the story of stone soup this week because out of nine children, only two brought in vegetables for the soup. Please don’t forget veggies on Thursday!!! This limits the number of helpers we can have in making of the soup because we don’t have much to do! The children are not really expected to remember, so we dont say anything to link them to not bringing anything, the story is just very inspirational and the children all begin to talk about what they want to bring next week. Here the children are hard at work peeling and cutting the one carrot and zucchini we had in the basket.
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On baking day the kids are making gingerbread muffins.
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These are the indoor play pictures. The rainbow houses were “kitty houses” for a while, and then castles. The children all played together beautifully this week, which is not uncommon at Morning song. However, this weeks games that they played nearly always included every child, whereas sometimes there are a couple of children here or there playing something else.
It was very sweet to see Saniyah pretending to paint childrens faces (see her “painting” Cammies in three photos) to get them all ready for the festivities.
They played medicine makers and took care of one another. At one point, the medicine was the shell that sits on top of the stacked blocks in the center of the children in the photos.
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We talked about many things we are Grateful for and learned a bit about Thanksgiving. We all had a chance to talk about one thing each that we are grateful for. When a child’s turn came around and
we got to hear what he or she is grateful for, we all acknowledged it and elaborated on why we too are grateful for this.
Matteo said: Plants, Cammie said: dogs, Sedona said: flowers, Sasha said: Rainbows, Sophia said: mommy, Beck said: firemen, Alana said: unicorns and Saniyah said: Chickens. So fun to hear what they are thankful for.
A very warm and loving thanksgiving to all!
Important Notes
As a reminder, when dropping your children off to always say their goodbye BEFORE opening the door to classroom. It takes 12 to 14 hours to warm the room up before school in the morning and when the door gets opened and left open during kisses and goodbye hugs, the cold comes in and replaces the warmth very quickly.
Also, please make sure children are WEARING their coats to school in the mornings, not carrying them, and we will take them off inside the classroom and hang them. Please do not take them off of child outdoors and place in cubby. We like to put warm coats on them when it’s time to go out.