September 14th, 2018

Our friends were all about being cozy today. When given the option to explore the school, or read books, they chose books. So we cuddled up and went through the shelves. In one story, a fish gets lost and becomes scared in a new unfamiliar place. Jack shared, “I’ve never been in the Rainey Room.” We asked how that made him feel and he said scared. Rachael told the children she was new to the school also and had so many new people to meet, she felt nervous and scared too and that’s okay. But, after spending time here, she started to feel less scared and more and more excited. Rowan said, “It’s fun to make new friends!” We all agreed.

​We had our very first sing a long of the year today so in the morning we practiced some of our favorites, Wheels on the Bus, Three Little Sparrows and Puff the Magic Dragon. At the end of sing a long, We sang out the Brown room and a couple Rainey Room friends stood up to leave, until they remembered, we aren’t the littlest ones anymore!

Jossie: Where are you getting that?
Worker: From a truck.
Jossie: Excuse me, How did the sand get on the truck?
Worker: With a lot of effort.
Jossie: Where did it come from? I don’t know either.
Elle: The beach!
Jossie: But its white!
Rachael: What color is sand at the beach?
Elle: Orange.
Jossie: Maybe it came from a sand place. A shop. A sand shop.

​In the outside classroom, we were able to watch workers carry in wheel barrels of sand and dump it into our sand box, while another worker raked the sand to spread it out. Will, Jack and Rowan used shovels to fill their wheel barrels with dirt. ​