Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Valentines!

Yesterday, Frannie and Remy made especially fabulous table setting arrangements with flowers, candles, read and sparkly fabric and other red and pink materials.  It was also a special occasion, because Sam and Ines had lunch with us!  Hugh and Finally were delighted to find valentines in their lunch boxes.

Small World Accessories

This week, most of our materials experiences will revolve around making things that can be used in small world.  Yesterday, children worked on tiny weavings that will serve as rugs for their miniature environments. 

Children also glazed some of the clay accessories that had previously been made for small world.  We will bring the rugs and the clay pieces to our small world set-ups in the coming days.  It will be interesting to see if the new accessories influence the scenarios that the children use in their play.  

"I don't know what's gong to happen!"                 

That's what Bailee said as she used watercolors to paint over some water-resistant materials such as crayons and paint sticks.  Here's some of the other things that children said as they worked.
   Lily - You can paint on top of anything on this table (referring to using the crayons or paint sticks first).
   Bailee - This is my mommy's face.  I'm painting the whole paper.
   Mimi - Rainbow stripes!  I put yellow in the middle.  
​   Bailee - These (the paint sticks) feel kind of squishy.  

Pink and Red Everywhere!

Message center also featured an explosion of pink and red materials. 

This and that...

• Children had a great time outside in the beautiful weather.
• Cal, Bailee, and Lily gave some thought to the KW name change.
• It's been awhile since we had puzzles, but Lucas worked to complete a race car puzzle today!