We were glad to see friends make it safely to school today! With the late start, we jumped right in to finding our balance!

A paper puzzle collage was sort of interesting….

Play-Do is always an inspiring material…

But it was balancing objects onto Buckaroo that kicked us into gear. First we defined balance.

We remembered The Napping House, a story about a house full of nappers who nap, one on top of the other. The teachers discussed: “Should we have the kids stack their bodies to experience the TRUE feeling of being balanced? ”. Better not, we decided….no sense in getting them hyped up, knowing we couldn’t go outside. So we gathered in the reading area to listen to this book by the fabulous Audrey Wood.

And we tried a few balancing things…..

 

But one teacher really wanted to stack bodies. No….we better not, we all concurred.  We don’t want anyone to get hurt. So we had each friend disperse and find an object to stack on the tabletop.

We shuffled objects around to achieve balance: large and small objects, soft and hard objects, square and rectangular objects. But one teacher still really wanted to stack the bodies. Ok! Let’s do it, we all agreed! And so we safely, with great excitement, found perfect balance being together…in a mumble jumble pile…one of us on top of the other.

And the compromise….music meditation. The End.

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Lunch: Lisa’s homemade chicken and rice soup, carrot sticks and pineapple/Craisin fruit salad. Snack: Hard boiled eggs and apple slices.

Happy day.