When we come into the classroom each morning we have choices of things to do on our tables and on the rug. We often have coloring, puzzles, small blocks, or other manipulative materials to keep us busy until all of our friends arrive.
Next we help clean up and come up to the rug where we talk about the calendar, say the Pledge of Allegiance, hear a story and/or sing a song, and hear a little about our day before we all line up to take a bathroom break. Today we read a book about The Gingerbread Man and learned our Classroom Rules song.

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To the tune of Frere Jacques: Looking eyes, listening ears, quiet voices, quiet voices...Helping, helping hands; walking, walking feet; classroom rules, classroom rules.
The next part of our day is centers. We take turns going to three different centers with our friends. Today at Miss Kathleen's center we painted with bubble wrap. Our paintings turned out so great--and we had fun! At Miss Paula's center we worked on our September placemats. We'll use those at snack time to help us find our seats and keep neat! At our rug center we played independently with our kitchen center and our Little People farm set. We did a great job of sharing and working together.
Then it was time to go out on the playground!
We learned our three playground rules:
- No fence!
- Slide DOWN the slide on your BOTTOM!
- Don't pick up the mulch!
Then we had fun! We loved the fire truck, the sliding board, and playing with our friends.
We came back inside and took a bathroom break and washed up for snack. We had a special snack today with a sweet gingerbread man cookie and some salty tortilla chips. After snack we returned our class library books and chose new ones, did a little more singing and dancing, and talked about our favorite part of the day. We were all tired by the time our families came!
Run, run, as fast as you can
You can't catch me--I'm the Gingerbread Man!
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