Week 2, Friday

 It's Friday!

Just checking on the very real caterpillar, newly named Charles, who Olivia brought to us on Tuesday.  He has grown so much!

Today's projects were

Painting our coil pots from yesterday

Group weaving on a large loom

Mini-books

Playdough

For our nature walk today we made funny faces 

out of tiny nature treasures, clay, and a tree trunk! 

(Thanks Eliza and Katie for running around to catch these portraits!)

After practicing our play we finished up with all our dances from the week!

Thanks for coming to the play; we had so much fun being The Very Hungry Caterpillars!

A special thank you to all our teachers!

Morgan, Katie, Charlotte, Aubrey, Eliza, (myself), and Michael!

Have a wonderful summer everyone!

P.S.

Did you ever wonder what we do to celebrate after a busy week?

Wheeee!

Week 2, Thursday

This morning Michael showed the kids recorders of every size. 

He accompanied "Say Hello" and "Goodbye See You Next Time."  

Katie read a more obscure, fairytale, The Gunniwolf. 

The kids were really into it!  

Today's art choices were

Monoprints

Bracelets with wood beads

Paper plate eye masks

Model Magic (putty) coil pots

For our group activities we took a departure from nature walks.  

First we played parachute games.

We made a bubble...

...shook around some "fishermen in boats" on a "stormy ocean"...

...popped the nerf balls into the air...

...and tickled the kids at the end!

Next we slowed down and did some water painting on the driveway. 

(A fun and easy try-this-at-home idea!)

It's super fun when you're allowed to paint ANYTHING.

Next we took some time to paint the scenery for our play!  

Be ready to see a giant cocoon and lots of fruits and leaves!

We ran through the play one more time and then sang goodbye with that enormous recorder! 

See you again soon!