"Stop the Big Bad Wolf!"

Yesterday, before the snow, a few friends were working hard on creating small structures with various sized blocks.

"We are building a house the big bad wolf can't knock over!"

"It has to be a brick house."

E & C chose the blocks they used very carefully. C stacked a long rectangle block on the very top of their tower.

"He will climb the rook and use this as a bridge!"

C then demonstrated how the big bad wolf was going to walk across the top of the house using the newly built bridge.

"But I think we need to make it stronger so he can't get in!"

C started stacking blocks one on top of the other to make the roof of the house stronger.

C finished constructing the top of the house when E noticed something was missing.

"We need the 'stop' block to stop the big bad wolf from coming in the house!"

E propped the 'stop' block up against the house.

By the end of the day the structure had changed, but the play continued into today.

V focused on creating an "enclosure for all of the dangerous animals."

"But we need more 'stop' sign blocks so people know not to go inside because they are dangerous!"

By the end of the day E, V, & C had created a small city that included two enclosures, a house, and the ocean with a sail boat floating alongside.

It's been so interesting to watch the structures and towers change, but the play stay the same. They continue to talk about what is needed to make buildings stronger, what signs they need to create to warn others, and the different kind of buildings they need. It's been so fun to watch their play evolve over several days!

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Week 2 Day 2

Pine Family is rocking and rolling in week 2! We are having less feelings of sad, mad, and scared upon entering class and more happy and fun throughout the day! Friendly reminders: Water bottles should only come to school filled with water (it's the best for our bodies and in case another student would accidently take a sip it won't cause harm), sunscreen should be applied before drop off (there is not a lot of shade and not a lot of time for us to get the kiddos all lathered up), and bug spray should be applied before drop off (this is mostly needed when we start going to the forest on Tuesdays, starting on Sept 12th). Thanks :)

Welcome back

Happy Tuesday! I hope you enjoyed your extra long weekend together but glad to see you all today. We changed out our word of the week, ask your kiddo if they remember what it is (PUT). At centers we continued exploring small world and our bakery. We opened the sensory table again and some faux snow and polar animals which was a big hit! We also changed out our gross motor center, changing out our obstacle course (crawl through tunnel, jump 10 times on the trampoline, and (steam)roll or summersault on the mat) for some thing new. Ask your kiddo if they tried to scoop the snowball, carry it across the balance beam and PUT it on the snowman.

All the fun

Today was not a typical day in the Pine room. We pulled out some new items to explore, had an impromptu dance party, capered, had a practice fire drill (during snack of all times) and ended out in the sunshine by the snail. To our sick friends, we wish you well and hope to see you Monday! Have a great weekend :)

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