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Monday, November 14, 2011

The Art of Story Telling

Today at Morning Meeting, the story telling puppets were back! Tamara and Fran started out telling a story about a prince and a tiger, and then it was the children's turn!
Gabby and Patty made up a story together about a butterfly who wants to play with the tiger.

And Ella and Mimi made up a story about a princess and a queen. It is so cool to hear how the Turtles are thinking about the act of story telling. They have very clear ideas about characters, and are starting to bring in different kinds of problems and plots into their stories.
 We used our strong finger muscles to pop bubble wrap,


 visited the Little Frogs's dramatic play area,

 played board games,

 did balloon dancing with Missy,

 took a field trip to the Library where Toni had some jerseys for our dramatic play area,

 sang Nancy Stevens a song about the little turtle who lived in a box,

 played in the leaves and straw,

and had a picnic lunch!
















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