The cardboard box we’ve transformed into a house continues to create so many moments of joy. It never stops surprising friends when an eye peeks out of a window or when a kid emerges from the box after someone has knocked on the door. Sometimes, the house even grows legs and walks around the yard!
During snack, we read “Nosy!” By Seymour Chwast, a book shaped like and about noses. The story led to some great conversations about smells, body awareness, and even animals; we learned how birds have beaks instead of noses, but have nostrils, just like us.
After snack, kids got very busy playing in the classroom. The play kitchen has been bustling with pots and bowls overflowing with pom poms and peg people. Towers were built, knocked down, and built again with magnatiles.
The cubby windows opened up this week as a choice during playtime. At the window, kids could use binoculars to examine the outside world from the inside. Quickly, everyone started shouting out things they could see, and the activity turned into a game of “I Spy”. It was fun to come up with words that help describe what we were seeing. We could describe the clothes people were wearing, the type of fur on a dog, the speed of a bike, or even the direction of cars.
At the end of the day, kids would meet together on the rug to play instruments while listening to music. It’s a great way to practice sharing and taking turns with materials as well as explore concepts like rhythm and volume. While listening to Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebees”, we pretended our shakers were bees and flew them high over our heads and all around the green rug.
Enjoy the long holiday weekend and we’ll see you on Tuesday next week!
