Daily Report: Jan. 23, 09

Posted by Lindsey at 1/26/2009 11:39 AM
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Morning Meeting:


Amy started off with the Thumbkin name song. We turned on the lion king music which all of our students love so much and danced to that for a while. Amy read 'Aliens Invade' the book written and illustrated by Elijah and Willow. Several of the children made up alternate endings for the story as it ends kind of abruptly. She also took the children on a short tour over to the sensory table with the corn, and the recycling. They discussed how to properly use the sensory table, and what to do with the recycling bins. Afterward everyone came back into the meeting room and read the 'Mouse, Strawberry, and Big Hungry Bear' book which had been requested for re-reading by Pearson and Addison. Then Amy held up the children's names which were on big cards, to release the children for hand washing and snack one at a time (the kids had to recognize whose name was on each card).

Snack Time:


We had fruit snacks (with vitamins in them) and oyster crackers for our snack today.


Outside Play:


The wagon was the main feature of this morning's outside play. It started off with Miss Amy pulling Addison on the wagon. After Amy pulled a few other children her turn was over and the children started pulling each other. They all peacefully took turns and encountered some problem solving. Elijah was a wonderful guide for the problem solving- when the wagon hit a board or a pile of leaves he figured out that the child inside the wagon needed to get out in order to get the wagon unstuck. Sam preferred to swing, and others played in the sandbox a bit as well. In the afternoon


Project Work:


We had a studio set up but the children were playing so nicely outside, and they hadn't had an opportunity for it in about a week, so we let them stay outside a full hour until lunch time.


Rest Time/ Focused Work:


Elijah started building a mouse city for his oragami mouse out of wooden blocks. Willow wanted to join and so she became Elijah's bit helper in constructing the city. The two of them had a great time roll playing with the city after it was built. These was a very sweet thing to observe and they were both practicing valuable social skills at this time. Sam got some one on one time with Miss Amy- he read to her out of a book, and then they played a fishing game together. Amy held the magnetic fish and had them struggle to get away as Sam tried to catch them with a fishing pole. Then they all sat down on the alphabet carpet to read 'Miss Mary Mac'. When the book was done they came to the table and started a letter hunt in magazines. Their goal was to cut out letters that corresponded to a chosen word (Elijah searched for letters in the word 'alien') and then glue them on a sheet of paper. This was a big challenge for Willow and Sam, and great practice for Elijah. Willow managed to spell her name, and then write her name beneath as well as draw a picture of herself. Well all was over it was time to go outside once again.


Free Play:


There was a lot happening this morning- as usual! Addison flipped through the Big Hungry Bear book and retold the story from what she remembered. Several of the children, including Pearson and Willow, spent a long time playing in the corn. Willow and Elijah found the projector with the translucent shapes in the dark quiet room today, but the fun was spoiled halfway through when our bulb burnt out- oh well.

 

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