We Are Family

The Turtles absolutely love taking care of each other and one way they do this is by playing family with brothers and sisters. They have mommies and big sisters who make sure their babies have fun by reading and playing.  Sometimes the Turtles even pretend to be a family of kittens where they make sure that the kittens get enough food to eat and keep them warm!

Besides playing family, the Turtles love helping and cooking so today they made pizza with Fran!  The Turtles got to choose from two different kinds of cheese, mozzarella and cheddar cheese.  Some of them even put both on their pizza.  The best part of makng pizza was eating it during snack!

While some of us chose to help make pizza, others were very busy working around the room.

We looked at our new calander a few times and figured out that on Thursday we meet with Jenny.

Others made houses for rocket ships.

Some of our friends got a chance to tell Turtle Stories, which were read aloud during Morning Meeting.

Then the Turtles helped the Little Frog's look for Jenny and and help check list of places that Jenny might be!

After our busy morning was coming to an end, we went to go see if Jenny was in the John Barnes room...and she was! Since Jenny was away last week, the Turtles were super excited to sing and dance with Jenny again.  We sang some of our favorites songs with Jenny, such as "Let's Go to the Zoo" and "We're Not Scared." She even brought her musical sticks and Hermina!

The Turtles then ventured outside... 

to ride bikes with friends,

climb,

hula-hoop,

and go on rocket ships!

The Beauty of Unexpected Endings

Today was a gloriously beautiful day, and we set out with our wagons to go and get the wood for our house from April, the Theater Tech teacher. Tamara texted her to let her know that we were coming. We took turns pulling the wagon, and soon made it to the big school, stopping to watch the big kids play basketball on the way.

Just then Tamara got a text saying that April was home sick! The Turtles were at first flummoxed. How come she wasn't there? What could we do?
It didn't take long to realize that there were tons of things to do on such a beautiful day!

We climbed on the rock pile,

discovered that we could write by scraping the rocks on the pavement,

found the school's vegetable patch where some beautiful brocoli was growing,

gave each other wagon rides,

climbed a pole (with strong Fran's assistance),

played on the bridge,

and went fishing in the stream.

So while we didn't get the wood for our house, we had many many other delightful experiences!

Earlier in the classroom had been very artistic as the Turtles returned to one of their favorite mediums, liquid water colors, and experimented with using oil pastels on black paper.