Wednesday, February 27

We had some old favorites out at Morning Work tables this morning, including our Hook-Together Spiders.  Earlier in the year, these were one of the more difficult manipulatives for the children to use.  They require a lot of fine motor skills--and patience--to link up.  Now the challenge has grown to making and copying patterns!

At centers today we used stamps and stickers of all kinds with Mrs. Hennessy.  We had stamper markers, rolling stamps, and lots of St. Patrick's Day stickers.  Miss Kathleen did some evaluations with shapes and numbers while we did our writing center.  We made cards, did tracings, and practiced holding our pencils like big kids.  At our rug center we had our big Legos and our baby dolls.  We practiced doing snaps and velcro closings as we dressed and undressed our dolls.

Reading to our baby dolls

It was a little bit chilly outside this morning, but we played so hard we hardly even noticed!  The sandbox is one of our new favorite things.  We're really good at taking turns!

We had a special treat today!  Riley became a big sister yesterday and brought us lollipops to celebrate!  She's very excited about her new brother!