Happy Friday!
“FREE CHOICE IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST OF ALL THE MENTAL PROCESSES.” Maria Montessori
Today we engaged ourselves in the ever so popular and fun shaving cream activity. We added in the larger cars and trucks to make this experience even more fun. 
Miss Marty then noticed some friends were “scribbling” in the cream with their fingers, so we made it an extended learning activity as this behavior demonstrates pre-writing skills.
Miss Rebekah would first draw the letter of the child’s first name (that was interested) and we would ask him or her what their letter was. We then asked them if they would like to trace their letter with their finger as well as asking them what that letter was. We also did this with shapes. They all enjoyed this learning activity and asked to keep going.
Pre-writing skills are the fundamental skills children need to devolve before they are able to write. According to the web site www.kidssense.com the “pre-writing expectation is that a child one to two years of age randomly scribbles and will spontaneously scribble in a vertical/horizontal and/or circular direction and imitate a horizontal/vertical/circular direction. Children from ages two to three years of age imitates a horizontal, a vertical and a circle.”
Two very popular books lately have been Frosty the Snowman by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson and The Mitten by Jan Brett. We read these books by request several times throughout our day. We even ask some of our mommies and daddies to read these books.
Breakfast: Whole grain Cheerios and apples.
Lunch: Whole wheat bread with turkey lunchmeat, cucumbers, and fresh pineapple.
Snack: Whole grain cheese crackers and mozzarella string cheese.
Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers.
Have a wonderful weekend, we will see you on Monday. Stay warm.
Marty
LINK TO PICTURES: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtTCDmdhjIuljaxWeRyFn6j9vhpq9A