The Turtles @ AFS: Busy, Busy Monday!

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Monday, November 28, 2011

Busy, Busy Monday!

The Turtles had very special visitors come in this morning to make paper with us, YES, PAPER! Wills' grandparents, mom, aunt, and cousins worked with each of the Turtles in making their own sheet of paper. Some of our friends even added glitter, pieces of colorful yarn, and leaves onto their paper! We are very excited to see what they look like and feel like when they are all dry!

After creating our special paper, we went straight to Missy's movement class. Today, we swam in the ocean and hid on top of our islands so the sharks wouldn't eat us! The fun didn't stop there, of course. During our next activity, we practiced our hula-hooping! Using the hula-hoop as a steering wheel, we even pretended to drive a car! Then, we ended our class with hopping around in the hula-hoops around the room.