Turtles As Composers

The Turtles started the morning a little differently today by going outside first!  It was a great morning seeing all our Turtle friends playing so nicely with one another.  

We gave bike rides to our friends,

pushed friends on swings, 

played games on a slide together,

and worked as a team to look for bugs in the garden!

Then we headed back inside for Morning Meeting and Choice Time. At Morning Meeting, the Turtles helped Fran think of a few more verses to our "House" song.  We made up a huge list of different animals and their homes, trying to think of animals that rhyme with each other.  

                    barn             cow

                    Africa          elephant

                    zoo              zebra

                    Africa          giraffe

                    river             alligator

                    doghouse     dog

                    pond            frog

                    jungle          gorilla

                    cathouse      cat

                    cave             bat

                    barn house   horse

                    tree              bird

The Turtles had such great ideas, but Fran and Tamara thought they needed a little more help with putting our ideas into a song so Carol from the Little Frog's room came over to help us!

After Carol's amazing help, we came up with a few more verses to add to our "House" song!

Here is a nest for a robin

Here is a hive for a bee

Here is a hole for a bunny

And here is a house for me

Here is a hole for a chipmunk

Here is cave for a bear

Here is a tree for a squirrel

And here is a stable for a mare

Here is a swamp for an alligator

Here is a pond for a frog

Here is a desert for an aardvark

And here is a house for a dog

Here is a zoo for a zebra

Here is a bed for a cat

Here is a grassland for an elephant

And here is a cave for a bat

For the rest of the morning, the Turtles

experimented with making different colors,

read books,

worked at the work bench,

polished our houses,

and practiced measuring with our tape measures!