Bark George!

Feathers were flying at the touch and feel this morning.  All the kiddos thoroughly enjoyed throwing the feathers up and watching them glide slowly back to the ground.  We learned that feathers can be many different colors.  We talked about how birds have feathers to keep them warm and to help them fly.  We also talked about how all the feather dust in our classroom air could make us sneeze!  Achoo!

Our book of the day was Bark, George by Jules Feiffer.  This is a funny little story about a dog named George who has an unfortunate problem.  Instead of barking, George meows like a cat, quacks like a duck, oinks like a pig, and moos like a cow.  His very concerned mother takes him to a vet who proceeds to pull each of these farm animals out of George's mouth until finally George is able to bark like a dog.  But...when George walks outside to a long line of people and is asked to bark, George responds with "Hello!"  To aid in comprehension, we used picture cues of all the animals mentioned in the book.  

After our story, Bristol and Ryan enjoyed making George puppets.  They glued on all the parts of George's face...his ears, eyes, nose, and tongue.  We then tried to re-enact the story by pulling pictures of each animal out of George's mouth.  It was a little abstract for our kiddos, but still fun and a great review of our farm animals and their corresponding sounds.

I accidentally left the camera in our classroom while we were on the playground, so I don't have any fun pictures today.  It was a chilly morning, but that didn't stop Bristol from playing with the balls on the slide; and it didn't stop Ryan from "starting his engine" (his words!) as he raced shopping carts with another little girl around and around and around!

Sadly, we had our last music session with Ms. Gretchen and Ms. Kylie this morning.  We continued to sing songs about community helpers (policemen, firemen, doctors, dentists, and veterinarians).  We also pretended to be a variety of sea creatures; and we used the scarves to "swim" through the water like a jelly fish, a sea turtle, and a fish.  Bristol and Ryan loved using the shakers to "Shake their Sillies Out," and we ended the session singing our good-bye song and playing the guitar (always a favorite!).  We truly hope that we will have some new music therapy students to sing and dance with next semester.  

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.  See you next week to learn all about police officers and firemen!