Read All About It

We took a break from boat building and camping out to read this rollicking good tale. Ask your child how the marshmallow battle started and what happened to the two towns in the end.

Map to the Party Boat

Sailing to "Corta Rico" on the Pirate Ship and Party Boat

On board the pirate ship they exclaimed, "We are sailing to 'Corta Rico' to visit Joshua!" They were then off to see Diego at the animal rescue house. Some created maps for their journey while others took pictures of the castle.

On board the party boat, they were all busy decorating for a graduation celebration! The only thing they said that was missing was party music which singing soon filled the void. Either ship they may have been on, it was surely an adventure.

Campfire Songs

Today in the classroom some of the students took to creating a campfire in the block area with their work buddies. It soon spread to other's in the classroom and became a "sleepover" around the fire. Miss Catherine brought out the guitar for some entertainment. Some songs were more traditional like "On Top of Old Smokey" while others sang more contemporary as well original pieces.

Camping With the Wild Things

Things move pretty fast around here. When this group built a campfire and began reading stories while their feet warmed by the fire, we brought in a big box, which they quickly began decorating, for their tent. Earlier that morning, Miss Teresa read Where the Wild Things Are and we had the idea of making some of the wild things out of clay. And then, here's where it really get's fun...camping trip meets Wild Things!I posed the questions "What if Max didn't come back home where his supper was waiting for him? What if he stayed with the wild things? Could we turn that tent into his tent? What if you stayed with him?" So, we began painting the tent.

Then, of course we had to build the boat, so they could said around the island. In circle this morning, Miss Teresa asked them where they would sail if they were Max. Most of them said "to where the wild things are!"
Where will we sail tomorrow?

Book Talk

We read this in two parts on Friday. The suspense was too much for some of them, who grabbed it off the easel and secreted it away to the book area to look at the pictures and try to figure out who helps the mouse out of the hole, and how. Ask your child about it...it'a fun story!