Family Portraits

This morning while playing with the baby dolls in our classroom, some of the kids started assigning roles to one another to play family.

"You can be the mom."
"I will be the dad!"
"I will be me! We are a family."

C saw the familiar game and decided that he, too, wanted to play family.

"Can I play too?"

"No, we already have our family, you can't play."

C turned away with a very sad face.

"They said I can't play."

It was apparent that the kids had a certain view of what a family can look like and how many people can be in it. It sparked an idea. What do our families look like?

The kids got to work on their family portraits. Each child carefully chose crayons varying in different shades and colors to draw pictures of their families.

"I got mommy, daddy, Noah, Piper, and me!"

E drew 5 people lined up next to each other. They all had similar heads, arms, and legs to represent their bodies.

V used self talk while she drew her family picture.

"This is daddy, he has really strong legs! That's why I love him. I love mommy because she has nice smelling hair. They all have blue eyes and some of them have brown hair."

"I am drawing me first, then dad, and mom, Lily, and Sawyer. We have 5 people in my family!"

"I have to draw mommy and daddy, and Patrick. My mommy has like yellow kind of hair, and daddy has like black hair, and Patrick has yellow hair too. I have hair like mom."

It was great to chat a little more about each child's family. At the end of the day we read "My Family Plays Music" which sparked an entirely new conversation about what kind of instruments different family members played. We will continue to work on our family portraits and talk a little more about what a family can look like.

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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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