Monday, September 9

We've settled into our morning routine very quickly!  We come in and play at our Morning Work at the tables and on the rug; come up to the rug for our Morning Circle Time; take a bathroom break; and then start our centers.

We've been practicing the Pledge of Allegiance and our Salute the Flag song at Morning Circle since our first day.  Today we added Days of the Week and counting off the days in September on the calendar.
  
Days of the Week 
(Tune: "The Addams Family") 

Days of the week. (clap, clap)
Days of the week. (clap, clap)
Days of the week. Days of the week. 
Days of the week. (clap, clap)
There's Sunday and there's Monday, 
There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday, 
There's Thursday and there's Friday, 
And then there's Saturday.



At Miss Paula's center today we used geoboards!  These help us with our fine motor skills when we stretch the rubberbands over the little pegs.  There's also a lot of verbal learning as we discuss colors, shapes, and design ideas.  As we finished our with our geoboards and waited for our friends to finish in their centers, some of us made sticker pictures.


At our rug center, we continued to build with our colored wood blocks, and we also added the dollhouse.  Everyone did a great job of sharing! 



At Miss Kathleen's center, we learned to use glue pots independently and then put glitter on some gingerbread men!  As we finished we worked at some coloring papers and talked about keeping our crayon marks inside the lines on coloring sheets.




After cleaning up our centers we went out on the playground where we always have fun!