Today we say goodbye to Jada!  Next week Jada will begin an early childhood program at her church in Granger! We will miss you, Jada! Thanks to Nick and Chelssie for sharing your delightful daughter with us!

Today, Tami set out the salt dough and offered friends watercolor to mix and explore colors and textures.

Some friends created alphabet letters and made their names out of the colored salt dough.

When it was discovered that we lost our train to the wet snow, Finn and Elliott set out to make a new one. Finn lined up two train songs to bring his train to life.

Max joined in and as the three boys rode their train, Laurie listened in and invited friends to create train word books.

They moved their work to a table and worked at creating a smaller version of their choo-choo. They also worked at tracing the words in their books.

Ellie, Marina, Jada and Sloane worked on their own choo-choos, sitting in cars and hitching little plastic cars together.

The Barbie sensory bin continues to invite friends to experiment with different dress designs and work with twisties, fastening the material to the dolls.

Sophie, Ada, Jane, Macy, Arleigh, Max and Finn want to put on a play. First, they scoured the book shelf to find a story they could agree on. Then they decided to write their own play. We grabbed a notebook and started to take notes. They described their characters and the plot and then set out to design drawings of their characters.

“I  made a star!”

As we prepared friends to head outdoors, we gathered together, put on our artist’s eyes and created pictures out of lines, triangles, squares, circles and rectangles. Friends shared what their eyes saw as the shapes were placed on the felt board.

Whew! A busy and wonderful morning.

A few photos from yesterday:

Wee Sprouts: Pea pods. Breakfast: Whole grain oatmeal and orange slices. Lunch: whole wheat peanut butter sandwiches, cucumber slices and fruit salad. Snack: Wheat thins and bananas.

Have a great day.