The Turtles @ AFS: Happy Birthday Sadie!

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Happy Birthday Sadie!

Today was Sadie's Birthday! We sang her Happy Birthday, and all enjoyed the blue berry muffins she brought to share. We also had a puppet show, and today the puppets were TOO LOUD! And they weren't using their kind voices! The Turtles had lots of ideas about how they could speak in kinder ways, and for the rest of the day, the puppets and everyone else was much quieter and kinder.

Fran also introduced the new props for the dress-up area! On of the Turtles ideas had been to get a purple sparkly costume for the dress up area to help they "play stories." The fabric quickly became capes, and there were superheroes aplenty!

There was also some amazing building happening in the room today!

Movement with Missy was so much fun! She brought her balloons!!

On our trip to the logs, we worked on climbing and balancing on the logs. They are such a challenge!

David pushed one log off of another and revealed a whole colony of insects! The children all wanted to photograph them, and took turns using the camera to get close-ups.