Thursday, August 7, 2008

Thursday, August 7

Community: practiced counting 1-10, 1-20; sang "I Had a Tiny Turtle", "ABCs", "Where is Thumbkin?", and the rhyme "Two Little Blackbirds Sitting on a Hill", read: One Magical Day and Going to Sleep on the Farm, enjoyed animal fact/picture cards about peacocks, chimpanzees, giraffes, and Tibetan foxes
Cooking: The children kneaded and baked the bread that we mixed up yesterday. Catherine set the table for breakfast and the children helped serve each other at lunch.

Fine Motor: kneading bread, scooping and pouring beans, puzzles, playdough outside, new sorting activity, Jaden and Jordan's puzzle!
Pretend: cooking in the kitchen, building a tent with our new, big rainbow silk and clips, building a farm and a zoo with animal figurines and the stable

Outside: splash day, wagons, using jump ropes to make harnesses for our friends (horses)

Breakfast: peanut butter banana smoothie (made with milk), whole wheat toast
Lunch: tuna salad, cucumber slices, crackers, pear and apple slices, milk
Snack: pretzels, yogurt, water