The Touch and Feel pool was busy this morning as we warmed up for the day exploring many modes of transportation that were all different colors. The kiddos flew, rolled, beeped, and zoomed helicopters, firetrucks, buses, cars, and trains.
Our Morning Circle continues to target several songs to greet the friends in our class as well as calendar concepts. We sing "Where is Bristol/Ryan?" and respond with "Here I am!" using picture cues to support the verbal output. We sing a song about the days of the week (see attached YouTube video if you want to learn the song and sing along at home with your child), the months of the year, and we count the number of days that we have left in September. We also answer the questions, "Today is ...", "Tomorrow will be...", "Yesterday was...." We are learning to decipher if the weather is sunny, rainy, or cloudy using our "What's the weather song?" paired with picture cues (sung to the tune of Clementine).
On the playground today Bristol and Ryan had fun pushing the bikes and shopping carts. Bristol especially enjoyed zooming a toy train down the slide, and Ryan always enjoys a good game of chase. They both had fun kicking the ball back and forth (with support).
During Literacy Circle we read The Best Nest by Laura Datta and Matt Buckingham. This story follows a sweet little owl, adorned with beautiful tactile glitter, as he decides to leave his crowded nest to find a new, bigger and better home. As he visits the different animal habitats (a frog in a wet pond, a dark bat cave, a sticky spider's web, a pile of leaves with a sharp, spiny hedgehog, a tiny mouse hole, loud crickets living in the grass), he decides that his own nest, although crowded with his other brothers and sisters is the best nest for him! As I read about the different settings where these insects and animals lived and the adjectives used to describe them, Bristol and Ryan got to experience "wet" by touching and splashing water in a bowl, "sticky" by touching masking tape, "sharp" by touching the tip of a paper clip, "dark" by turning off the classroom lights, and "loud" by listening to some chirping crickets on a sound machine. We then went to our arts and crafts table to make our own houses out of construction paper using several different shapes (square, rectangle, circle, triangle) of many different colors. We traced the outer edges of the shapes and verbally labelled them before glueing them onto our papers.
After we finished Language Circle, we headed outside with the rest of the Speech Garden for our 1st Out and About, an outdoor scavenger hunt! Bristol and Ryan had amazing stamina as we walked around our school finding items on our picture-based scavenger hunt. We had to look for a leaf, trash can, bugs, flowers, etc and then circle or mark them off as we found them.
After our adventure outside, we were hungry, thirsty, tired, and very ready for lunch. I am truly enjoying the time I spend with Bristol and Ryan on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Thank you for sharing your sweet children with us! See you Thursday!
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