April 21st, 2022

Luke had wonderful and exciting news to share with his friends on Monday - he and his family welcomed his baby brother,
James Vincent!

Luke was eager to receive lots of questions about his new brother during Morning Meeting! Many friends were interested in the baby's abilities to walk, crawl or talk and what his preferences are. And some excitedly drew connections between Luke's brother and members of their own family, that share the same name.
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Because my brother's name is called James. - Bea
My dad’s real name is James! - Saul

Why did your baby give you a present? Maybe he loves you. - Bea
How did you give you a present? - Lily
He had a little yellow thing but you can’t see it because he’s covered with things. It's behind his back. - Luke

Can he crawl or walk? - Bea
No when he’s two! - Luke

How can a baby brother can even talk? - Remy
No, when he’s like 14. - Luke
Yeah like Campbell can say baba. - Remy
I don’t know how he just got a little bigger. You just keep eating and then you grow. That’s how I grow. - Luke

(His favorite food) it’s milk! - Luke
Milk is not even food. - Jade
We chopped our food in tiny pieces and feed it to Maeve. - Wilder

What does the baby play? Finlay
No not yet because he can’t not sit, he can just carry - Luke

Can your baby can control her arms yet? - Wilder
No, He puts them on his head and like this (puts arms by his side) - Luke
They just squiggle their arms around. - Wilder

Is she old enough climb ? - Jade
No you have to be like 6 years old. - Remy
No, 4 years old. - Wilder

I gave him a rubber ducky. It was mine when I was big and I decided to give it to him - Luke

Does the baby like the dog (referring to Luke's dog, Teddy)? - Cape
I don’t know I didn’t hear it because he can not talk. - Luke

Congratulations to Luke and his family, Alicia, Alex, Grace and James Vincent! We can not wait to meet him!

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In the past couple weeks we have been busy creating illustrations to represent the plot ​for our Rainey Room Story book.  Collaboratively we created...

characters...

... settings, speech bubbles, traps, ...

... and large mazes to and from school!

Today, for the first time, we arranged all of our work on a large bulletin board next to our morning meeting area. Together we discussed pages we have created so far, sequenced the pages to mirror the plot line and  identified pages we still need to create. The children were thinking critically about their reasoning for certain plot twists and collaboratively reviewed the pages.

What is happening in the story?
What happens first? What happens next?
What characters should appear at what time and why?
Are the characters represented on the page interacting with each other?

​We still have to make page three and four! - Bea

We are excited to continue our work on the Rainey Room story and to fill in the missing pages for our book. We invite you to check out the displayed pages in our room together with your child in the upcoming days!
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