we have regular “book time” each day after we’re done cleaning up.  as soon as cleaning up is finished (or not constructive and there isn’t much left!), i’ll sing:  if you’re done cleaning up, then go sit down and find a book to look at.

after their own “book time” we transition to “story time” when i read aloud to them.  i’ll do this in another area of the room so that children have space and time to finish looking at their own books.  children are invited to  join us when they are ready (which is usually right away!).

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i really enjoy finding all these photos on my camera.  thanks, ms carol! 

blue bits of paper

blue stickers

blue tape

blue streamers to tear

blue lids

blue beads

blue poms poms

blue feathers

bottles of glue (hmmmm….that rhymes with blue!)

since the favored technique was putting the glue on TOP of the collage items, i’m glad it dries clear.

i highly recommend getting one of these mirrors just so you can tuck it in your ceiling tile braces:

the view is a thrill.  what’s really fun is watching kids discover that it’s there for the first time. : )

what a silly thing. i was given about 30 laminated paper banana shapes.  it’s B week, so i thought we’d use them for something.

i thought we’d play a simple hide and seek with the banana papers.  but when i was trying to explain the game plan and wanted to get their attention, i pretended my banana was a phone.

now that was really silly.

then we made the plan for them to hide their eyes while i hid the stack of bananas (1 per child).

i came back and gave clues about where the bananas were hidden, then sent them off to find them!

coming back with only one banana was a little tricky….more fun to have the whole stack.

but we figured out the game…and there was a lot of giggling.

these children are so busy, so happy, so constructive.  with this being our first year back at our church building after 7 years away, i’ve wondered how the children will use the space.

i can set up equipment and arrange tables, but i’ve been eager to see which corners they gravitate to, which tables they move on their own.  i’m learning where i put things when we moved (like the circle time bell and certain CDs)…

it’s a gift to have space to move within.  it has been busy.