Welcome back, we hope everyone enjoyed their weekend.

We are learning about manners and read the books Bear Says Thank You and Hippo Says Excuse Me by Michael Dahl. We learned that saying thank you and excuse me is a good way of having good manners and tried our best to practice saying them throughout the day.

During work time some of the children worked with our new Thanksgiving themed Spot the difference work pages. The children enjoyed learning new vocabulary words (Native American, Pilgrim, and canoe) and finding the object that was different in each row.

Do you know where popcorn comes from? We are practicing our Spanish vocabulary words for the month, one of the words we learned is elote, which is corn in Spanish. We learned popcorn comes from corn kernels.

The children had fun making an elote(corn) and using popcorn for the kernels. They were a bit sad they could not eat the popcorn we used for the art project but were excited to pop popcorn for us to have for snack!

We went on a Mermaid adventure in Arts Alive class yesterday afternoon. We swam to Mermaid Island where we made music by playing seashells, dances with an octopus, and tickled each other with our very own octopus tenticles!

We used our visual sense of form as we worked with our geometric solids lesson in the sensorial area. We added a new part to our lesson as we matched picture cards of everyday objects that we classified as a cube, cone, cylinder, and a sphere.

The children worked on their balancing skills in Jumpbunch class as they walked on a tightrope Coach Luca brought for us. We are excited to see what adventure awaits us this afternoon in Arts Alive class. We are sure to have a fun time.

Did you know hand are not for hitting? We read the book Hand Are Not for Hitting by Martine Agassi and learned that we can communicate, draw, play instruments, and greet each other with our hands but not hit. We also learned that hands are for being kind and showing love. The children enjoyed the book and are trying to practiced what we learned.

During our circle we worked with our adult and young animal matching lesson in our science area. We matched picture cards of animals as adults with picture cards of them young. We also learned what they are called as adults and children(i.e. tadpole/frog; caterpillar/butterfly).