February 19, 2026
Happy Thursday!
Thank you so much for our wonderful tee shirts! They are so adorable with every Ohana student’s picture on them!
Today on the front table, our little Buds happily discovered a festival of fine motor activities! There were loads of colorful pom poms as well as pasta shells. Our challenge was to use the grabber scissors and grabber tweezers to pick up and transfer the pom poms and pasta shells into different locations. There were large plates and color coded cups to use for everyone. We love gathering different items and making a treasure trove of color!
At the back table, our pretty pink play doh made a return with rollers, cutters and vehicle shape stampers. We thought the stampers were fun but the teachers invited us to roll the clay with our hands to make sausages and balls of all sizes! We love play doh and how it squishes in our hands and fingers!
In the free play area, there was a giant salad bowl set out and ready to distribute as a healthy snack for our Buds friends. Off to the side were the many colorful and fluffy felt donuts. These two food combinations are very different and we like how the hard rubbery salad ingredients feels much more different to a soft and fluffy donut!
Pretty soon, it was time for us to clean up and gather for the morning circle!
Brandon held up a sign of HOME and asked “what is this a picture of?”
K: “Home”
After we finished putting our names up on the board, we then counted our friends that were at school!
T: “Taiga help count”, “3”
H: “6”
K: “7”
Once we finished, it was a special international months day! Brandon brought in a few surprise items to share about where he is from, the USA!
Brandon held up an American flag and asked “can you say USA?”
K: “USA”
The Buds were then asked what colors they see in the flag.
T: “Purple, red”
K: “Stars”
Brandon showed a few pictures of some of his family and also some very special people known as “native Americans”. We learned that Brandon is part “Cherokee” and that his great grandmother gave him a special name called “Tawodee” that means “hawk” or “little hawk”. How cool!
Afterwards, we read the story “Goodnight America” by Adam Gamble and saw that America has many different types of places like big fields of farmland, deserts and even big mountains! We learned that there are black bears where Brandon is from and that they love to eat fish and berries like us! Yum!
Speaking of yum, after we thanked Brandon for sharing about where he is from, we gobbled down our snacks and got ready to go to the park! Today we went all the way to Kogai park! We discovered a giant sand box and a wonderful jungle gym that looked like a pirate ship with a big slide!
Thanks for an awesome day everyone! See you tomorrow!
Love,
Buds