Sending Out the Invitations!

Once some of the Turtles made their finishing touches to the invitations by licking the envelopes closed and signing their names, we headed over to the Tyson House to weigh our envelopes and mail them out.  Lindsey, the Administrative Assistant, showed us how she weighs the mail that comes into the office.  She placed one of our envelopes on the machine and after getting the weight, she marked it "big envelope" with her  tool.  She then placed all our invitations on the machine and ran them all through.  Each envelope was stamped with a red U.S postage mark, and then the children placed them into the outgoing mail bin! One Turtle even kissed his invitation to send his love before putting in.

Music with Jenny was fun as usual!

Hermina and her baby came out to play.

"Who Took the Cookies From the Cookie Jar"

Making beats and antlers

"Rashasha Rashasha"

Pretending to be robots

Singing "At the Aquarium"

Some other activities included:

Looking for bugs

Reading The Cleverest Spider

Tasting the mint

Looking at the butterflies

A Fine Day for Fine Motor

 As we often talk about, fine motor development happens in lots of different ways besides just drawing and writing, and today we worked with inter-locking links, which was a very tricky fine motor-task.

measuring Fran with links

 We also revisited the clay, today working with slabs of clay and wooden tools. The Turtles found many different ways to manipulate the clay from scoring the surface, to tearing chunks, and from pinching pieces to rubbing the surface, again building their fine motor strength and coordination.

 In the garden, we discovered that some tomatoes and lettuce had sprouted, and that a red radish was developing!

 And then we were off to Missy for a Bear Hunt, a game of Dodge Ball, some free play with balls and hula hoops, and of course, stretching.