What do you want to be when you grow up?

It was a perfect day for flower planting today! We started our day as always. With Evita, we continued working on our End of the Year gifts. At the activity table, we did the connecting chain activity with Nimo. We made a loooong chain, and when we counted, it was more than 100! Sayaka reminded us that we need to clean up a bit earlier because we had flower planting at Step Park today! 

We all gathered for circle time and started singing our morning greeting song. After that, Sayaka said that today is our last day of the week because we have PTC Thursday and Friday. 

E: Mommy said no go here. *Mommy told me that I need to stay home.
R: Next day, I’m going to Okinawa.

Then Sayaka showed us a pretend flower pot and started explaining how to plant flowers. She said that it’s important that we use gentle hands to hold them.

Sayaka: Why should we use gentle hands to the flowers?
M: We need to use gentle hands, or flowers be sad.
Sayaka: Yes! We also make sure whenever we go to step park, we water the flowers. Do you know why?
R: Is it going to get bigger and bigger?
Sayaka: Yes! Can we practice how we hold the flowers? *Then Sayaka asked us to pass around the pretend flower pot.
S: I like pink.
M: I smell cake.
A: I smell cake, too!

Alright! We think that we are ready for flower planting! Sayaka mentioned that we would go to the park with buds friends.
Sayaka: I wonder if Bud's friends are smaller than us or bigger than us.
E: Smaller.
M: Help them.
Yes, they are our little friends so we always help them if they need help!

Before we had snack time, we talked about what we would like to be when we grow up. Sayaka showed one of our friends' first day photo.

Sayaka:Who is it..Hmm..He looks very little.
M: R!
A: R!
Sayaka: R, who is this boy?
R: I don’t know.*Smile
Sayaka: Is this boy ?
R: No!R
M: It’s R!
Sayaka: I know it's not the same R now  because you are a big boy now. So, big boy R, where are you going to go after Petals class?
R: I’m a big boy. I’m going to a big school, then I’ll go to L and M’s school.
Then Sayaka showed another photo which was of A and M, who are in flower class.
Sarara: A!
Sayaka: Where is A?
L: Flowers class!
L: M M M!
M: Because he is bigger.
R: C was in flowers class!
B *Nods.* (Your brother is in flower class?)
Then Sayaka told us that some of us will go to flowers like A and M. Some of us are going to go to big school soon. Also, some of us will stay in petals.
Sayaka showed us a book about occupations. “So..what do you want to be when you grow up?”
A: I’m going to work with dad. Dad uses a computer.
Sayaka: Look at the page, who wants to be a chef? *R, Y, M raised their hands.
Sayaka: Firefighters? *S and E raised their hands.”
Sayaka: How about a doctor? *E mentioned that he wants to be a monkey doctor.
Sayaka: Police officer? *B and L raised their hands.
M: Oh, that’s scientist
R: I want to be a scientist.
Sayaka: Here is a pilot. Who wants to be a pilot?
R: I want to do it.
A: I've been on a plane before.

We wanted to talk about it more, but we just realized that we should eat snacks otherwise we would be late for the flower planting.

So, we decided to have snack time and after that we headed to the park. It was such a lovely day and we had so much fun flower planting with buds and flowers class.

Thank you all for another wonderful day! See you all again tomorrow or Friday through zoom!

Love,

Petals