Jan. 27, 2009

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast and drew a picture of an orange in our journals. For our fine motor work we sorted plastic bugs, pretended they were having circle time, and created patterns with them. We also threaded spools on pipe cleaners and created structures and patterns with Unifix cubes. During circle time we determined that it's rainy today. Our weather bears wore their rain jackets and I squirted everyone with water so they could use their sense of touch with today's weather. During outside time it was too muddy to play outside, so we took a learning walk around campus. We observed a lot of art work in the hallways and we talked about it. We saw pictures that children had drawn of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When asked about what he did, the children were able to remember a number of facts. They remembered that he grew up to be a man, that his father helped him a lot, that some children told him that they wouldn't play with him when he was little because his skin was a different color. We decided that that was not a nice choice that the other children were making. We also walked by the kindergarten garden. We saw peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, and some herbs growing. During center time today we had speech with Ms. McGuire and free reading of books with things that start with the letter "O" (otters, ocean animals, and owls). We had lunch with Pre-K and then went on a walk outside to check the playground. We decided that the playground was too wet to play on so we walked on the track instead. We came across the most wonderful flock of wild green parrots. They were eating seeds on the ground and let us get about 10 feet away from them. The had some blue feathers under their wings. We returned to the room and worked on finishing our science fair project. I asked what they thought our science fair project was about and the three words we came up with were "measure", "small", and "big". Everyone took turns writing the letters that make up these words then we glued the letters together to form the words. We glued our paper with the sticks onto a science fair board as well as our title words and a ruler. This afternoon after rest we'll stay in our room to practice for the science fair judges and glue our quotes about the project onto the board. Please check it out when you're in our room next. They did a WONDERFUL job!
Please check the weather in the morning to see if there are any school closings/delays due to the weather.
Kali Parsons