Our week flew by! It’s amazing how one less day in the week makes it feel so different. Nevertheless, we fit in lots of discussion about forest animals this week. We read some stories about owls, including Owl Babies. I promised the kids I would share the link to the audiobook, because they wanted to hear it again and we ran out of time. We love the narrator’s accent and soft music that plays. Here it is: https://youtu.be/XO1kkIka9rs?si=GhxoIkZPyFcKRuZs After the story the children had the opportunity to create their own owls in a tree using cotton balls. Apparently the owl’s eyes made a big impression because the owls they created were really all about the EYES!!
We continued having fun in our campsite and playing with forest animals in the block center. Everyone took turns trying to feed the baby bird using magnetic worms. This took focus, patience and great fine motor control to slide the worm into the birdie’s mouth without using two hands.
We celebrated another Ladybug birthday this week!!! Happy Birthday Georgia!! We had a fun celebration with both her parents visiting ❤️
At the end of the week read a book about being thankful and shared lots of things that made us feel thankful. Things like blankies, Buzz Lightyear, Frosted Cheerios, and Disneyworld were mentioned, but above all everyone said their mommies and daddies! We practiced cutting some feathers and made turkeys with our faces and our thankful thoughts on them. Check out our classroom bulletin board to see them!
We have a regular week of classes next week and then we will have a short week again. We will be closed Nov. 27-29 for Thanksgiving. We would like to have a small celebration of sharing and thankfulness in our classroom on the Mon/Tues before Thanksgiving. If each child can bring 1 piece of fruit (or small cup, if your choice is berries or something similar), we can create a Friendship Fruit Salad to share with each other during snack. I will send a reminder when the time comes.
Please mark your December calendar…We will have our Preschool Christmas Concert on the last day of preschool before Christmas. It will be on Wednesday , December 18 at 9:30am in the Sanctuary.
Have a wonderful weekend with your sweet Ladybugs!