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Monday, January 30, 2012

A New Medium for Turtle Artists

We introduced a new art medium today: Oil Pastels! Oil pastels can be be beautiful for blending colors, as well as for making vibrant colors. Another advantage to oil pastels is their small size, which encourages a tripod grasp on the pastel, an important pre-writing skill.



Other choices included:



Missy had lots of new games for use today:
Musical Chairs


The Chicken Dance

Twister


Soccer with goalies

"We Will, We Will ROCK YOU!" (and clap in patterns!)
At the logs, we discovered that we have grown bigger and stronger and some things that we couldn't do before we can now do!




While at the logs, we smelled smoke. We looked around the horizon, and noticed that there was smoke coming from one chimney. We went to investigate, and found several teachers working in the Short Stable, with a beautiful fire in the fire place!



Fran reading "Snowballs" by Lois Ehlert

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