This was a Blue Bus Gymnastics morning. The children worked with Miss Jennifer on eye-hand coordination today through games that used scarves, balls, and the parachute.

REMINDER…Tomorrow is the new YMCA swim session. All that were in swimming are continuing. But, we are adding 5 new swimmers: Ada, Addi, Arleigh, Alma & Umi. (Notice all the A’s!) The new guys will need to bring swim suits, preferably one that can stay at WF for the entire session.

Our small group inside mainly focused on two regular everyday WF activities: Making Sculpture Dough and the Light Table. As teachers, we love the chance to enhance a “normal” activity with interesting materials that renew the children’s interest in the activity.

Since Sculpture Dough has not been chosen in awhile and we had some Halloween forms (Jello jiggler molds), it took just a little suggestion to Kai that those two materials might go well together. From that, we had child after child making their own sculpture dough and using the Halloween forms, while also creating many of their own sculptures. While kids waited for their turns, they used our playdough.

The light table has been used for the past few weeks with the fairy tale cut outs. As the interest in this topic has waned, so has the interest in the light table. Today, we added a translucent orange plastic pumpkin cutouts, black construction paper, scissors and two copies of the book Five Little Pumpkins to the area. Children worked alone and together to create their own funny jack-o-lantern faces.

Miss Laurie is out today ill with the monster cold virus that has been filtering through. This cold is very sinus and chest congesting. It took me a full two weeks to get through it without antibiotics. However, several of the children (and one teacher) have gone on antibiotics for this virus because of resulting sinus or ear infections.

Outside, we enjoyed the beautiful weather for a full hour and ten minutes of play! Here are a few shots from the morning, inside and out:

Enjoy the sunshine!!!!

Tami