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 Happy Tuesday! We had so much fun sticking together and having fun today. We welcomed our friend Julie into class today; she always brings the most fun activities. For table center she helped us strengthen our fine motor skills/strong hands! At our motor center at the carpet we put a snowball IN our spoon, walked across the balance beam, and put the snowball IN our snowman. Of course when we ran out we had to scoop the snowballs OUT of the snowman! At our sensory center we hunted for the letters of our name IN the sensory table. Some of us are really good treasure hunters! Building our names is getting so easy and speedy fast for our friends now. At group time we read the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and worked together to tell the story of WHO is IN the mitten. Ask your kiddo how the animals came OUT of the mitten! For gross motor time we set up an obstacle course that ended with us going IN and OUT of a (body sock) tunnel and put their puzzle piece in the puzzle. In order to get IN, the kiddos had to answer Ms. Julie's question (she had animal puzzle pieces laid out and asked kids to find the rhyme, beginning sound, characteristic of animal, animal sound, etc.). We also played in the Art Atelier and a group of friends decided to re-enact our story and picked the animal they wanted to be as they squeezed together IN and OUT of the box.