This week we are celebrating the letter T and St Patrick’s Day with Tom Tom the Leprechaun as our theme. This pretend character loves rainbows, the color green, gold and being outside in the trees. How fun that we still have a lot of green around since it is March’s Color of the Month: the playdough and tools are green, the Tub Table has green digging and sculpting tools, and all the Tiny Things. Our new Alphabet Friend is Terry is covered in tape this week! We have a pretend tornado that we can color and paint while it spins from a hook on the ceiling and a two tunnels to crawl through.
The Tub Table has had gold coins in it all week. This afternoon we finally counted that there were indeed 100! But then after making this video, another coin was found so we actually have 101 in there!
Our Coping Skill is Tree time. Spending time outside with trees is known to reduce feelings of stress. By looking at trees we are also using our previous Coping Skills of Exploratory orienting and Far off gaze.
During Clean Up we are listening to Irish jigs…continuing to practice stopping and freezing when the music stops.
On Thursday we took home our leprechaun houses and looked for rainbows. We finished adding leaves to trees in our Journals and talked about the TH sound…perfect for our Golden Letter friend, Theo. Read on to learn more about our day.
Conversation Starter: Party Snack Time
We had our final St Patrick’s Day Tom Tom the Leprechaun Green Rainbow Gold Parties today! Thank you, families!! Grandma Mona brought us a very St Partick’s Day looking cookie box with green and a shamrock…Thin Mints!
Morning class: We had green spinach banana chocolate chip muffins from Max W with edible green grass and rainbow candy from Max and Gus!
Afternoon class: We had party napkins from Owen, green spinach banana chocolate chip muffins from Malcolm with edible green grass, rainbow Rice Krispie Treats from Heath, and gold chocolate coins from Willow. Party time!
Conversation Starter: Story Time
Who made the thunder sound at Story Time?
After reading When the Storm Comes, Ms Kristin demonstrated her thunder tube: an insturment that sounds like real thunder when lightly shaken.
We explored the facts of rainbows: they are formed when sunlight passes through raindrops, they are made up of seven colors, moonbows can happen at night and no one has ever found the end of a rainbow.
We went outside after Snack Time and made our own thunder sounds by smacking pool noodles on the concrete. We called it a party game.
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Conversation Starter: Project Time
What can you see through your tube?
Rainbows! We covered one end with rainbow film and decorated the tubes with tape. When we look at any light through the rainbow film, we see a lot of rainbows! Our tape loving Alphabet Friend Terry was close by for this project.
Conversation Starter: Circle Time
What did we fill up during Show and Tell?
The pretend pot at the end of the rainbow! Even if our things aren’t gold, they are treasures to us!
NO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK : Spring Break!
The afternoon did an extra Spring Break clean up with stacking chairs and a big sweep. Thank you, friends!
P.S. We’ve been working on our sweeping skills and here is proof of how effective their sweeping is: no teachers swept any of this garbage in!
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