Once upon a time there was a snake who was sitting with her sister on someone’s shoulder when suddenly the sister was gone. She took a deep breath and made a hiss sound so her sister could find her. Then they hugged each other with another long hiss.
Read on to learn about these sister snakes, strawberry cookies, scary things, shelter play and missing out.
1. How do you make a snake sound?
At the beginning of Circle Time we did snake breaths together. Each pointer finger was a snake and after a deep breath in through our noses, we exhaled long making a hiss sound. There were a few more stories we told about our snakes hiding in our laps or behind our backs. I bet your child can retell them!
2. Who brought us strawberry cookies?
Birthday friend, Charlie! Even though he knows he won’t be 4 until March 6, we celebrated today with a special snack. Thank you, Charlie, and happy birthday!
How amazing that we had strawberry cookies to match our Alphabet project and the strawberry in our book!
3. What was the mouse scared would happen?
The mouse was scared the bear was going to come and eat the strawberry. We took notice of the fact that we never see the bear and we never hear the bear. All of the mouse’s fears were about ideas of what could happen. As someone who lives with anxiety, I am very familiar with this cycle!
One of our copies of this book is also in Spanish, so I read it to them in Spanish as well. Just like at the end of the book, they might say, “Que rica” when eating something yummy today!
4. What did you say you felt scared about?
Children took turns coming to tell Ms Kristin about times when they felt scared. We had a range of being hit by a raquetball to characters on movies to storms to spiders and dreams. We did a little shiver shake after each one to feel those fears and let them go a little bit. While waiting to go outside, we paused and did some S feeling word expressions: Silly, Surprised, Scared, Sad
5. Did you stay for Show and Tell today?
Part of our work at New Creation Preschool is to equip children with skills for decision making and doing so in a “neutral to good” context. Giving them opportunities to make significant choices without any judgment from authority figures is a really powerful experience.
Today the choice was to participate in Show and Tell or not. It was a big choice and one friend checked in wanting to verify, “So I won’t be in trouble if I don’t stay?” I assured them it was not a test or a trick, that it was absolutely an option, and there was no disappointment from their teachers whatever was chosen.
We did see some cool Show and Tell things…stuffies, a robot, a princess crown, a school bus, a dump truck, a sparkly frog, a little cat, a doll and a few books.
Yes, the dump truck owner DID want help loading it up with dirt.
Fear not, Grandma Vicki came to the rescue and helped with the crown.
We heard this sweet Apollo 13 song all day…enough that I found myself humming it too.
Enjoy more photos from our day:
Our leprechaun shelter is back. This reminds me of March 2020 when we had S Week, then schools were shut down for the remainder of the year. What a time to be alive.
This was a very intricate yet loose game of “donuts and money” where the three oldest in the class were finding ways to bring the youngest in the class into the play. The beauty of a multi-age classroom.
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