back in d week, children were invited to bring stuffed dogs to school. we used duct tape (THANK YOU FAMILIES FOR YOUR DONATIONS!!!) to fashion collars and leashes.

so that we wouldn’t get fur sticky, we folded the duct tape in half the length of the collar and leash, then used a little piece of duct tape to fasten.

it was very serious work. a lot of talking to the dog owners about dog gender and dog names.  there were many times the conversation went something like, “is it a girl?”  “no”  “oh, is it a boy?”  “no, it’s a dog.”  of course.

a lot of talking to the dogs, reassuring them that it wouldn’t hurt to get a collar put on, that we were almost done, etc.

this was one of those activities that provided a natural one-on-one experience between teacher and child.

and the collars with name tags came in handy when twin dogs came to school. : )

see the tuesday/thursday kids in action!

thanks to elsie’s family for bringing cecil and making the movie. : )

in honor of the letter d, we had real dogs visit us: tank, angel, punkin’, waffle, cecil, jake, pumpkin, sally and strider. cecil brought the added joy of pulling the kids in his fire truck. wooo hooo!

thank you, families, for bringing so much fuzzy fun to our classroom!

as autumn arrived, we honored the color yellow.

easily one of my favorites, reminding me of happy things.

yellow fabric suspended for a fort
yellow cushions to hide in
sorting yellow blocks from the rest
playing in water made yellow from tumeric
yellow supplies for a group collage
yellow crayon resist with yellow watercolor (which flopped so we turned them into a “pile of leaves”)
multicolored crayon resist with yellow watercolor (which worked)
yellow string to cut
yellow leaves to find

c was for color and change as we looked at the newness around us.