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 Welcome to week #6! We have some new words of the week we will be practicing: I WANT. These words help your child advocate for things that they want. These words really come in handy when a friend has something that we want to play with, when we want to eat/drink, when we want something that is not currently available, etc. We will practice how to appropriately/kindly ask for things that we want (we have a visual tap/look/ask we will refer to) both directly through reading books, role playing, etc. and indirectly through modeling during play times.  Our friend Thomas made a night bird and it only comes out on the darkest, darkest nights!   We are taking some time to practice our new school tool scissors! Then we are discovering how we can arrange the paper scraps to make beautiful artwork   Friends practicing how to help animals by pretending to be a Veterinarian    What do you think bugs WANT to do in the small world? We enjoy retelling our story One Duck...

 Hi there Pine friends! We ended our week with some capering fun!

 Hello Pine Family! Ms. Amy came in today to play!

 Happy Tuesday! We enjoyed a trip to the beautiful forest. Our friends jumped, climbed, and explored every inch. Sorry if your kiddo came home a bit dirty :)

 Happy Monday Pine Family! Sometimes it's hard to get our week started with smiles but we made it. This week we will be continuing our word of the week HELP. Our center invitations have changed to support our word of the week learning. For our first area, Creation Station, we introduced a new school tool: scissors! We will practice cutting some straight lines, curvy lines and zig zag lines. We never waste our paper, we will turn it all into beautiful art! When our hands get tired of cutting, we are discovering how shapes can be put together to make pictures that look like animals. In our second area, Explore Galore, we opened up a Veterinarian shop so we can practice HELPing care for animals and continue to explore our small world, now with magnifying glasses. In our third area, Discovery Zone, we thought back to our story, One Duck Stuck, and the animals we met. Those animals are available, along with blocks, so our friends can retell the story, HELP build houses, etc. **If anyone...