I Spy With My Little Eye

             ...was the activity we did during circle time. We talked about the big map we were currently doing— today, we added some roads. At first, we were wondering why the teachers put our train tracks o top of our map artwork. They said we can use these to trace roads on our map. First, we used a pencil for tracing, then we chose what color of marker we wanted to use to trace the lines we did with the pencil. We practiced how to hold writing materials nicely, using the tripod grip. Some of us found it challenging to push against the paper with our pencil!

Pauline also showed us a map that she printed out. The pictures were a bit on the small side, so she took out something that could help us, a—

“—magnifying glass,” Z said. Yes, she was right!

“It’s used for looking,” K said. He’s right, too. It makes objects look—

“— bigger!” We all chorused. We took a closer look at the map and noticed a lot of things in it.

“Maybe next time, we could add more things to our map,” Pauline suggested.

“Maybe we can add mountains,” Z said.

“And small houses,” H said.

“And boats,” S said.

Next, Pauline had a list of things that we can look for in the map. Our teachers said that we need our good looking eyes for this activity.

First, we need to count how many blue trucks were there. We counted one, so Pauline wrote number 1 on the checklist. Then we had to count how many blue cars were there.

“There’s only one,” K said, and he wrote the number 1 beside the picture of the blue car. Next were the boats, and S counted five. She wrote 5 on the checklist.  K counted the red cars next and he said, “I can only see one red car.” so he wrote 1. S counted the gray trucks and he told us, “I can only find one.” so he wrote 1 on the checklist. R went last and looked for the motorcycles. He counted twelve, and he wrote 12. Our teachers were really impressed after the activity– we used our good listening ears, looking eyes, counting AND writing skills! Yay us!

Our teachers thanked us for participating in our circle time activity, then we prepared to head off to the park. It’s another checklist that we have, and the teachers always ask:

“Indoor shoes on the blue line?”

“Check!” We respond.

“Yellow sashes on?”

“Check!”

“Did everyone go pee– pee?”

“Check!”

“Did you wash your hands?”

“CHECK!”

Then our line leaders and caboose go and put their shoes on first, and our teachers partner us off with each other.

It was such a beautiful, bright sunny day today– but we noticed it was cooler, too. We relished playing under the sunshine at the park, and we were happy that Kai brought a ball. We had fun stealing the ball from each other and running away with it– even if we took a tumble, we didn’t care and just got up again and took off running. Kai made a line with some of our friends, and they tried to block whoever had the ball. It was so funny, and it was difficult to run AND laugh at the same time, so we always ended up falling down in fits of laughter. On top of that, Sayaka tried to chase us as she pretended to want to gobble us up like a monster– and that made us squeal with glee!

Aside from that, our free playtime in the morning was occupied with our map artwork, and finishing our Santa Soul Train postcards while some of our friends played with the stickle bricks at the back of the room. Others were quietly browsing through our books in the library.

After our morning snacks, we asked our teachers if they could read “Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad, Bogey?” and Sayaka read it to us. It made us laugh even the second time around! The Big Bad Bogey was very naughty, and it was funny how he got mixed up into stories we know like Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella.

In the afternoon, as we woke up from our quiet time, our teachers started to play some Christmas songs. “It’s Christmas tomorrow!” Sayaka was teasing us. “Nooooo!” we said. The most wonderful time of the year is coming up soon– but first, we’ll be having Thanksgiving and Shichi Go San. Our Jewish friends from other classes will get to celebrate Hanukkah. There are other wonderful holidays around the world— we would very much love it if Mommies and Daddies could help us celebrate them in our class, too!

That’s all for today– we hope you also had a great day like us!

Love,

All the autumn bunnies in Petals Class