Playing, Learning and Growing in Mixed Age!

Good afternoon everyone!

Our week has once again come to an and, and I am so glad the weather turned out to be so nice today! I hope everyone gets to enjoy it. This week we continued to discuss feelings and emotions, and began learning and talking about the fall. We also began to implicate class jobs this week. Everyone has been really excited to have a chance for a job, and for those who did not have a job this week, they most certainly will next week. Jobs are rotated within the classroom in order to ensure that each child is given multiple opportunities to take part in each one, and we will continue to do this for the rest of the year.

This week's centers included:

Art table: This week we had a build a monkey craft that included gluing "fur",eyes, and a tail onto a paper plate "head". Everyone was also able to decorate card stock leaves for the fall. The children decorated these using a fork painting technique and were able to use glitter as well. 

At the art easel: we included more water color painting this week, which included printed images of Jim from The Grumpy Monkey story, as well as monkey faces. The artistic talent among the class is definitely coming through within these paintings!

The writing table included line tracing, grumpy monkey coloring pages, and blank paper for free drawing.  The children have already begun working hard on lea