Art Time. Mailboxes.The kids brought mailboxes for their Valentine's cards so we decorated them with butterflies, candy hearts, glitter, stamps, stickers, puff paint, colored pens, decorative scissors, and confetti.
Valentine Ornaments. The kids dipped different colors of yarn (about 1 ft each) in a mixture of water and glue. I sprayed Valentine cookie cutters and aluminum foil. They put the cookie cutters on the foil and the string inside them. They didn't come out quite as expected, but still fun. Next time I would use bigger and more simple cookie cutters.
Academic Time. The kids traced the letter U. There was a hum of them saying doooown up dooooown up as they traced their "U"s. On the other side, they circles pictures that started with letter "U".
Snack and a Story. The kids made blueberry muffins.
Music Time. I put a song in each heart for the kids to draw.
Here are the kiddos dancing.
Valentine Exchange.
Loved Donny's card. It was of him looking like he was holding a lollipop (I wasn't fast enough to take a picture before Apollo took his off). Donny colored all of them.
Science Experiment. We played with some sticky goop called Gazzet while we reviewed what we did for the day.
Random Thoughts:
Grant: Grant asked to do the timer for quiet reading time but I told him that he had done it last week and that Apollo had asked last week to do it this time. A lot of kids would be bummed by that-not Grant (an unconquerable spirit) instead he yelled out to Apollo after he finished the timer, "WAY TO GO APOLLO!"; I noticed he encouraged others on and lifted them throughout the class.
Jonathan: During self selected time Halley and Jonathan had so much fun crawling around the room being tigers; he loves to goof and play around and the others kids love to play and goof around with him; he still is always polite and says "excuse me".
Nicole: She tells me almost every week that she loves "Miss Robyn"; she loooves crafting and really liked the Valentine ornaments and could have stayed there all day dipping the yarn in the glue and making shapes.
Halley: I told the kids "Your moms and dad will really like your mailboxes". Halley said (in a low voice mimicking her dad's) "I really like it, but where are all the princesses?" She had covered up her princess box with the decorations she put on.
Donny: he's very well rounded, likes learning, loves his buddies, great disposition, very pleasant and fun to have in class; he saw that kids got to choose hearts during music time if they were dancing or doing what we were doing-he danced his little heart out, he wanted a heart so bad...it was so so cute.
Apollo: He is very detailed about his tracing and worksheets so a lot of times I have to tell him we'll work on things later; he didn't like getting messy with the glue and was glad when he could clean his hands and go on to the next activity; he looks forward to preschool every week.
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