Preparing the Invitations!

Now that The Turtles and the Beanstalk is almost perfect, we began creating invitations to invite our families and friends to come watch the performance, which will be on June 12th at 10:30am in the Turtle Room.  During Choice Time, one option was to write all the names of the people who we were sending the invitations to and another choice was to use our special light table to outline our character pictures onto the invitations.  Both centers were very popular and the children were so excited putting their invitations in envelopes and sealing them up.  Next, we will put stamps on them and mail them out!

Other activities during the morning included:

making long hair with links,

saving monkeys with the links,

experimenting with more clay,

spinning around on the tire swing,

helping little kids reach the tree,

and moving heavy tires.

Sowing Seeds

"They are starting to grow!" Several children noticed that the beans were starting to open up! They showed with their hands how the seeds were expanding. Other children who had not yet had a chance to plant their bean stalks did so today.

Several children who had been away last week were back today, and the Turtles were so glad to be re-united, gleefully greeting each other and picking right up where they had left off.

seeing patterns in the blocks

Tommy and the Leprechauns

The Turtles began their morning cozying up in front of a fire roasting marshmallows.  We pitched our tents and even turned on some Indigo Girls for camping music.

While some of us were camping, others were making intricate routes for the marbles to travel through.

Some things we did during Choice Time included reading a few books that Ella brought in to share in the book corner and working with more patterns. We also experimented with more clay, but this time the clay was much harder which made the Turtles have to work harder too!

Then we were off to look for the pot of gold the leprechauns had hidden in Jenny's class.  First, Jenny told us a story about St. Patrick's Day and how a boy named Tommy went searching for the pot of gold that the leprechauns had hidden under a tree.  Every time Tommy found the leprechauns in the clearing making their shoes, they ran away from him before he got the chance to ask them where they had hidden the gold.  After finally catching the leprechauns, the leprechauns told Tommy that the gold was under the tree that had a scarf on it, but when Tommy looked for the tree with the scarf, they realized all the trees had scarves.  Tommy was tricked!  The Turtles listened intently to the story and even got the chance to act out the story!

Tommy 1, Tommy 2

Tree

Catching the leprechaun 

The pot of gold!

Naturally, the Turtles then wanted to dance, so using the scarves we had a dance party!

Then it was back to the playground!

Riding backwards to the moon.

Reading off a recipe to make some food.

Going to the clouds and moon.  Tomorrow's trip will be to outer space!