Hello!
Happy last day of August–
**This is an extremely rare situation we have going with the mosquitoes. That being said, if you want your child to have bug spray on while here at school, please provide specific bug spray for your child. At this time, we will just put bug spray on children who have bug spray here (morning and afternoon if needed)! If you have any questions about this, please ask! 
No matter the time of day, children are always able to go to the art table. Maxwell sat down at the art table this morning and started creating. Rosemary closely followed and got out a marker block for herself. This is one of the areas in the classroom where our imagination starts bubbling. Not only does it engage our creative and artistic flow but it allows our language to evolve.
Another spot that we’ve been taking full advantage of this week is our new sensory table! With the different tools available, it’s definitely open to interpretation. Some friends take the corn and move it throughout their fingers while others work on their pouring and filling skills.
As we headed outside this morning, a couple friends suggested the parachute be brought out. We all took turns going underneath the parachute as well as the important job of holding the parachute.
We added one more skill to our parachute adventure: throwing balls into the mix! As a group, we tried to keep the balls in the middle as long as possible. Talk about team work!
In kindergarten today:
Jackson and Addi focused on identifying lower case letters (K.RF.2.4) using our set of Montessori letters. I put a few letters into a hat so that they could pull a letter out of the hat and identify it. There were a few that we were unsure about so we worked together to try and solve it.
Without prompting, Jackson and Addi started saying, “This is a ‘D’. Like D for Daniel!” We started associating each letter with a word that we were familiar with.
In large group today, we read two different stories, ‘Roly-Poly Egg’ and ‘Llama Llama Home With Mama’. Jackson said, “Hey! Roly and poly rhyme!”
Before we started reading our books, I inquired about prior background knowledge of ‘syllables’. A few children knew what the word was but couldn’t define it. I simply told them it’s ‘the separate sounds we hear in words’. We did a few examples: preschool and flower. We put our hand under our chin to see how many times it moved. We all said ‘flower’ together. As a group, we came to the consensus that our chin moved two times, meaning it has two syllables. We did the same with preschool!
Once we read our two stories, we specifically looked at the titles of our books. We put our trusty hand underneath our chin again and found out all of the syllables for both titles! The clap method was also adopted to find syllables: Ma-ma (clap, clap).
Before ending group, we each found out how many syllables our name has! Addi and Lulu both chose to use their ‘real’ names, Addison and Luisa which had more syllables than their nicknames.
We headed to the table where children journaled their specific thoughts. It’s always lovely to see children’s thoughts transferred to paper.
Breakfast– Homemade blueberry oatmeal casserole with banana.
Lunch– Organic brown rice with chicken and cheese, strawberries, and cucumbers.
PM snack– Air popped popcorn and PPC peaches.
Wee Sprouts– Cucumbers.
Have a lovely night.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 8/31