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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Creating Our Castle

Since the Turtles made sketches for our classroom castle, it was time to get to work! Tamara helped cut out the castle, while the Turtles mixed custom paint colors to paint the castle. It was great seeing the Turtles' beanstalk story come to life with all the additions we are making to the room!



Some other fun things we did during the morning included:

watering our beans and sunflowers,




building VERY tall buildings with magnatiles (good thing Fran had lots of extra help from the Turtles),

and creating parking garages for all of our cars.

Then we set off to see Jenny where we began the class with one of our favorite greeting songs.  We even recorded it so that we could share it with all our families and friends.  In class today, we sang a Pete Seger story about a frog who went to the corner store,  made beats with wooden sticks, and peeled our bodies like a banana.


singing "Speckled Frogs"


peeling like bananas


pretending to have tusks








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