Entering the flow state, eating astronaut food, mixing up play dough and running away from something: MONDAY G WEEK

Our Monday “Red Day” Class started off H Week with two Golden Letter friends both named Henry! We had horses at the block corner and a big stuffed mama horse by the Sound Tunnel. Monday is the day to work on our alphabet projects and we had children figure this one out on their own. We had hole punchers, hole stickers and hole puzzles too.

At Circle Time we talked about different housing options. So far the common denominator is a doorway to get in and out.

Here are today’s questions…

What H things did we have for snack today?

Why were we mixing up the Play-Doh today?

What could you draw on the heads today?

What do you do when you’re done cleaning up?

What were people running away from on the playground today?

1. What H things did we have for snack today?

Heart shaped cheese, freeze dried mango (it was hard instead of soft!), harvest cookies, and honey Teddy Grahams. Thank you, Owen, for a hearty snack today. Freeze dried fruit seemed new to many children so there was a lot of exploring this and a fun fact that this is how astronauts eat food sometimes!

2.Why were we mixing up the Play-Doh today?

To make the color brown! It took a lot of muscle and a lot of different techniques to make it happen. The table grew from two children to eight within a half hour’s time.

3. What could you draw on the heads today?

Hair! We have laminated head drawings and dry erase markers available this week. There wasn’t only hair on TOP of the heads, someone drew hair ON the head in the form of a moustache so big it covered the mouth.

4. What do you do when you’re done cleaning up?

Find a book to look at. Enjoy this clip of the natural evolution to self guided reading. The sound of pages turning is absolutely delightful. At the beginning of the school year, many children are preoccupied with “not knowing how to read” or “not knowing what is happening” in the books. After modeling picture walks through the books, looking for clues, making predictions, verifying our guesses, they arrive to this flow state.

5. What were people running away from on the playground today?

The tires!

Grandpa Kelven helped get them up the slide. When the tires are let go of, they roll down the slide and roll down the hill! The children race to keep ahead of them or drop behind to chase it which so far, they always have.

We also had hoses on the playground for children to play with as well… these ended up being a child discovered tool for hauling the tires back up the hill. I adore the physical opportunities these children have.