Welcome Turtle Families!

Welcome to our daily blog! We use it to share daily updates on our classroom, reflections on our learning with children, and photographs.We are so excited that so many people are sharing in the Turtle Day! Extended family, friends, neighbors, educators, etc, are also encouraged to follow the blog!
One of the wonderful aspects of blogging is that it allows real-time interaction between home and school. Is your child talking about what we are doing in school? Leave us a comment and let us know! Are you interested (or even an expert!) in something we are studying? Leave us a comment and let us know! Are you planning an outing with your child to extend the classroom learning? Leave us a comment and invite other families along!
We also have a section call, "Learn More About..." When we write each post, we tag it with relevant topics. And so if you wanted to see what we have been doing with, for instance, science, you would click on that tag, and see all the posts about science.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Who Do I Belong To?

It has been a hectic week of cleaning and packing, and we have turned up some lonely lovies! Also still here are helmets. Stop by this week to claim your things:)

Monday, June 11, 2012

Wet and Wild Water Day

It was a glorious Water day, and David's birthday too! We had so much fun!
See you all tomorrow! Regular drop-off time, with the show at 10:30 in the Turtle Room!



















Friday, June 8, 2012

It Is All Coming Together

We invited the Little Frogs to watch our show, Turtles and the Beanstalk. We are adding extra costumes and even more lines for the different characters. They liked it so much, we had a dance party!
For Inside-Outside Day, we had watermelon, found insects, worked with trains, and did swing acrobatics.










Thursday, June 7, 2012

Climbing Trees, Face Paint, and Rehearsal

It was another busy day with the Turtles! Our morning began with the new train set that was donated by a close friend of Tamara's.  Not only were some of our friends connecting the trains together, but they were also turning them into different letters!

"Look, I made a C!"




Then we headed outside for some climbing expeditions! After a couple of the Turtles began climbing on our special tree, other friends began to join!  They were so proud of themselves each time they reached the top and wrapped their legs around the branch.







Others worked very hard to make "vehicles" with the toys that were brought out by the Caterpillars.  


Giving friends rides on the tire swing

Today, the Chipmunks had a Fair so Paula was kind enough to paint some of the Turtles' faces!

A Fierce Soldier

A Pretty Blue Butterfly

A Pirate


Finally, the Turtles had our first dress rehearsal in front of another audience, the Caterpillars.  With some suggestions from other teachers, we wrote more lines for the kids to be responsible for during the play.  This time, the play went much smoother and we are so excited for our final performance on Tuesday June 12th at 10:30am in the Turtle Room!