WWF Daily Explorations, Thursday 7.21.11

 

What a great day!

Yesterday afternoon, Miss Paulina made some sushi for us out of felt. She also invited the children roll their own, which was a lot of fun. We had another sushi party this morning with Finn’s dad joining us! We talked about all of the different types of sushi, the ingredients and we are planning on learning how to use chopsticks.

 

 

After that everyone joined in for our firetruck song and dance. We are using plastic rings that invite children to move according to the song’s words and to create their own as well.

Miss Laurie brought us a nest today since she had read in our blog about Finn’s “flower nest” observation a few days ago. The nest even had a little egg in it! We touched it, feeling for different textures, and about how it was made. Miss Lisa read a book about Robins to expand on this theme. Miss Paulina also played and taught us a song about birds in Spanish with her guitar. We then moved on to listening to some soft music as we read books.

Right before lunch we played with our trains. We had a lot of parallel and cooperative playing going on, it was great! For lunch today we ate tuna salad on whole wheat bread with lettuce, corn, and cantaloupe. It was delicious!

Miss Marty is home sick today, we wish her a speedy recovery.

Due once again to the heat index, we will remain indoors this afternoon.

Regards, Lisa, Paulina, Marty and Amy

Wee Friends, Wee Friends, Mighty Mighty Wee Friends

On the way to the farm today, the older preschoolers and I had a lengthy discussion about the difference between being a “best buddy” and having lots of friends that you choose to be around for different types of play.   We decided that we could call all our friends “Wee Friends”!   After that, the kids thought we should have a song about our Wee Friends.  With the combined musical genious of Laurie (great job on the lyrics!) and Paulina, we now have our  WF Song (click here to see a short video of the song).  This is my first attempt to post a video, so give me feedback on how it works for you.  Also, I’ll try to have a steadier hand on the next one but I am just getting used to the video on my new iphone 4.  (Bought just so I can start sharing short videos with you, or so I tell myself:)