We’ve created a new tool for the classroom: A Snack Menu!
Kids helped Zoe make a menu for snack time to show everyone what kinds of food are being served and the hand signals we can use to ask for them: hand on head for fruit, finger on nose for crunchy snack. First, kids made a practice drawing on a blank piece of paper. Then, when they liked their plan and felt confident, they made a final drawing on paper from a Restaurant Guest Check Pad and labeled it. It was exciting to see kids helping and offering each other ideas on how to draw their pictures. Cleo took inspiration from Emilia, who drew many clementines on her paper, rather than just one. Eva tried many different ways to draw a pretzel before figuring out she could start with the shape of a heart and add lines to make it look more like how she pictured it. Later, she instructed Eli how he could do the same when he was asking how to draw a pretzel. Manu used stamps to label the “fruit” side of our chart.
Our puppets, Bill the Owl, Turtle, and Horsie, have made a few appearances at Morning Meeting this week. The fuzzy friends have been disagreeing about things like the weather and how they want to play at school. All the puppets have different ideas from one another, and each thinks their idea is the only right one, and they’re all so frustrated! The kids have been trying to help the puppets come up with ideas for what we do when we’re frustrated and disagree with a friend. One thing they’ve come up with so far is to get a teacher or grown-up to help!
Outside, we’ve been exploring eucalyptus plants leftover from our Earth Day Celebration! Ripping leaves from the stems and using them as ingredients for salads and soups being made in the play kitchen. Other kids used the entire stem itself as brushes, some as brooms, and even as ropes to help pull kids out of pretend lava.
Ju-milia took the kids in small groups out to the garden and observed what’s growing. Using clipboards and crayons, kids drew pictures of what is in bloom!
