We had an excellent first week of autumn here at Brooklyn Schoolhouse! We had two animal (puppet) friends, “Bill the Owl” and “Horsey,” visit us during our daily meetings on the rug this week. Bill and Horsey helped us practice different words and phrases we can use when we want to play with friends at school: this included “Can I please play with you,” “What are you playing,” and “Would you like to play with me?” These interactive puppet shows during meeting are a playful and instructive method to give children the opportunity to explore and practice how they can initiate play and form new friendships within the classroom.
Continuing with our theme of friendship, each day this week we read a different chapter from Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad Together. Children really enjoyed hearing four different stories about the same two characters, and even began incorporating themes from these stories, such as gardening and making a list, into their independent free play throughout the classroom.
We had our first “Tony Time” on Tuesday, where kids sang and danced to songs on the rug with our music teacher Tony. We also had our first “Theater Adventure” with Sophia this week: Princess Anna of Arendelle from Frozen wrote us a letter asking us to rescue a magical mountain stone that a Grumpy Troll stole! We went on a wonderfully exciting adventure to find the mountain stone, and will return it to Princess Anna during our Theater Adventure next week!
We’re so looking forward to next week, and hope you all have playful and restful weekends! Reminder that our first “All School Sing” will be next Tuesday.
