Feeding the Birds

Welcome to a new week in the Pine room! This week we are focusing on the core words: put, in, on, and a good question word, where. We will be reading "Put Me In the Zoo" that features these words in all different contexts throughout the week.

This morning, the boys had lots of choices to practice those different words through a variety of activities. One in particular was to create bird feeders! The boys have shown interest in animals and taking care of other living things so we thought the bird feeders would be a great idea! To get some inspiration we watched some this live bird feeder camera to see which birds came to visit and what they were eating.

Wow was this activity great for some OT skills! We didn't have any bird seed so we figured cheerios on a pipe cleaner would do the trick. This was a tough activity! Not only did the boys have to resist the urge to eat the cheerios, they also needed to use their small fingers to put the round cereal onto a pipe cleaner! Whew, that was some hard work, but J demonstrated his skills and practiced over and over until he was successful.

It was so great to have all the boys back and ready to start a new week. Enjoy the rest of your afternoon and we look forward to playing again tomorrow!

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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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