The Turtles @ AFS: Building Houses

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Building Houses

Building houses was a big draw at the table. Using small boxes and other collage materials, the Turtles worked one building houses, thinking about shape and ornamentation.

We donned our boots and raincoats and headed out to Tamara's car to get a huge box. The Turtles have an idea about building a giant house, big enough for them to go in, and so the big box is the start of the our construction.

On the playground, our new favorite game of Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf continued, with people taking turns being little pigs and big bad wolf, and sometime the Lion Cat.

The Little Frogs joined us today for Morning Meeting. They brought a movie with them; it was a movie of them telling stories! They invited us to plan a trip up to their classroom so that we could try out their video equipment!