Here’s an afternoon pick me up from your friendly IT professional. Tami asked me to post the videos for the concert last night.
Enjoy,
Chaz
http://youtu.be/T_40eBg5tCw?hd=1
http://youtu.be/CPtZFjxtfuI?hd=1
For lunch today we had chicken, spinach and cheese quesidillas, and fresh fruit. Please join us in welcoming Brittany, an IUSB student who is doing her observation with us. The children really seem to enjoy her.
To help with pick ups, please check your daily sheet for information pertaining to quantities of food, diaper changes, etc. This is often a chaotic time, and the teacher at pick up time may not necessarily readily know that information.
A special thank you to Jason for the morning “pick me up” with him once again playing the guitar for us.
Enjoy the sunshine today!
Lisa, Marty, Paulina and Amy.
We have had a great morning! Due to the gloomy day, Miss Marty read a lot of stories to the children. The children were outside for a short of time before it started drizzling. We looked at our new picture photo cards from our different activities and friends. The children really enjoyed this! We were so glad to see our old pals, Maite and Jonathan, in some of them as well!
Miss Lisa did a coloring mural with the children while Miss Paulina and some of the other children played with our train tracks and trains. For lunch today we had scramled eggs with ham and cheese, fresh blueberries and avocado. Here’s a link to listen to our Lunch Song!
This afternoon we will continue to read about dogs (a Sloane favorite), and our cats book. We will also do some singing!
Regards, Lisa, Paulina, Marty and Amy
Finally a morning to go outside and explore!
Finn and Sloane helped Miss Lisa water the flowers. Some of our friends harvest from our garden some green beans, and orange, yellow and purple carrots. They were fascinated by the yummy carrots that showed up from underground as they pulled the plants off from the soil. They learned to break the leafs off and then washed them to eat as a morning snack.
The children played diligently in the sandbox as we talked about filling and dumping sand, and heavy and light. Caelan talked to us about his airplane experience, the pilots, and apple juice. Welcome back, Caelan!
In searching for a way to make our lunch a more socially important event rather than “just about eating”. We have developed a new ritual. WWF now sing a song at the beginning of every meal while they hold their hands.
Our song goes like this:
We are eating together, together, together
We are eating, together our lunch. (and we go one making up new words, depending on what is going on that day)
Our lunch menu today included turkey on whole wheat with cheese, and fresh avocado accompanied by garden vegetables and oranges. This afternoon we will do some music.
Make it a great Monday. Regards, Lisa, Marty, Paulina and Amy
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Another very busy day at WWF! Our morning began with an interesting and brand new art project. Lisa prepared some bowls with paint and gave the children long pieces of string and a sheet of paper. They dipped the string in the paint and dropped it on the paper several times making very interesting curvy lines. They also tried rubbing and rolling the string on the paper getting different effects.
Some children spent time outside planting tomatoes with Amy. They dug up the dirt using shovels and gently placed tomato starters in. These plants grew out of the seeds we had planted with the children earlier in the spring. Our garden is starting look like one!
While outside today we made lots of music. This week we have added a new song in Spanish that goes like this:
Dos manitas, diez deditos,
Dos manitas, diez deditos,
Dos manitas, diez deditos,
Dos manitas, diez deditos son.
Uno, dos y tres deditos,
Cuatro , cinco y seis deditos,
Cinco, seis y siete deditos,
Ocho, nueve y diez deditos son!
(to the same tune of “one, two and three little fingers”).
Today we had our first try to have a lunch helper. We are hoping to have one child per week who would like to help us setting up the table and preparing the food for their friends. Today and tomorrow will be Umi’s turn. We are excited!
Among the teachers we have been discussing about our role as teacher in “learning through play”. As teachers it is essential to be able to recognize a “teaching moment” and approach it the right way. We are excited about a new tool we have found, and would like to share with you.
When children play we want to watch and look for signs that will tell us we are being invited to play with them. Sometimes these are as subtle as a gentle gaze at you or as clear as taking your hand and saying “come play with me”. The key here is to do it with respect and honoring the intentions and level of sophistication of their play. We have found the following acronym to be helpful.
“Approach play with SOUL”
Silent
Observe
Understand what is going on, and
Listen
Have a wonderful day!!! We? We have SOUL!!!!
Paulina, Lisa and Amy
P.S Sometimes technology gets us and Wednesday our blog post was saved as a draft and never posted!!! So here it is, better now than never!
Despite the clouds and light drizzle this morning, we made our own sunshine inside this morning. Miss Lisa did some fun farm cards with our friends. We identified the animal and the sound it makes, and did some discussion on our farm trip. We worked on individual collages this morning. As we picked different objects (tissue paper, gift
wrap, cotton balls, etc). We talked about the texture, its size and color.
Miss Amy had some avid gardners outside. Things are beginning to sprout! For lunch we had cheese tortillas, mixed vegetables, and
fruit salad. We look forward to more outside time this afternoon.
Have a great day! Regards, Lisa, Paulina, Marty and Amy
Good afternoon!
It is time for traditional songs and rhymes at WWF. The children have enjoyed “Ring Around the Rosie” so much that we have decided to start adding more traditional sings to our repertoire. Rounds and silly dances seem to be of special interest right now. Today we had music out on the bridge area, where we were able to sing songs sitting at the steps and dance around in the wooded floor area.
Today we added these songs:
Outside time today was spent playing with the new toys under the log cabin. Cups, plates, pots, cooking utensils, chairs and a little table were added sparking a whole new way of playing under the cabin. Pit gravel was poured and transferred several times into all the different containers, children took turns sitting at the table and serving food for each other. This kind of play ties in so nicely with our birthday and picnic themes!
For lunch today we had scrambled eggs with cheese, carrots, mandarin oranges and whole-wheat toast with butter. I am happy to report that the menu for today was a total success!
Marty read “Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash” by Sarah Weeks. A funny story about a squash that grows so big, that Mrs. McNosh can fit inside and take her nap. They also read “The Runaway Bunny” by Margaret Wise Brown, another classic!
We are brainstorming ideas to make our good-bye time a little calmer. Starting today we will be reading a series of 3 music books on cd beginning at 4:45 every day. We would like to ask that if you are coming to pick up your child during that time, please try to come in quietly and either sit down with us to read the books or quietly take your child aside to get ready for good bye without disrupting the activity. If you need to talk to a teacher please make sure to do this far away from the reading area so that the children are not interrupted.
Have a wonderful rest of the day,
Paulina, Amy and Marty.
We are all so glad to see the sun today!
We started out the day today with some dancing with Finn’s dad! All our friends joined in. We also listened to some books and music on our CD player. This was a great way to start our day.
Pla-Doh fun filled our kitchen this morning. We used our hammers for pounding, and recited our “Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker´s Man” rhyme. Sand play also filled the room, as we did a lot dump and fill, counting, and measuring.
Did you know our WWF´s took a bus ride today? Ms. Paulina did this with them in Pretend Play today. They are good drivers and they used our plastic rings for steering wheels. 
We sang a “Tisket, A Tasket, A Green and Yellow Basket”. Ask your little one what they put in their baskets as we hopped around the house!
Finally, we had some outside time today! We had fun digging in our sand hill, riding our bikes, and just running around to burn off some energy. Our garden is taking form, and thank you to Ms. Paulina and all of our parent volunteers who are helping to make this all come together.
If you would like to listen to the Cha Cha Cha song that we dance to at WWF, and have fun at home with your little one, follow the link below!
Everybody Likes to Cha Cha Cha!!
Have a wonderful weekend.
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