The Little Acorn

Last week, we had fall leaves in the spotlight. Today, it's all about acorns!

Free Play

We had new friends this week, and the more, the merrier! The teachers brought out some car race tracks, and we were excited to try them out. We saw that the teachers also prepared some puzzles, and we busily set off to work on it. We completed the Frozen puzzle quickly, so A said,"I want more puzzles." Pauline brought out a puzzle with more pieces. A and A worked on these, as T worked on a racing car puzzle. They were all able to finish their puzzles, so A requested again, "I want another puzzle." Pauline then brought out an enormous alphabet puzzle! They tried to finish this but weren't able to get around to it, so maybe they can continue it tomorrow.On the carpet, E was having a great time playing with the cars on the track. S was experimenting with different sizes of toy vehicles and whether they could fit on the tracks. When we were done playing, we decided to hang out by our reading corner. S was reading "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" book and was singing along when someone started singing the song.

Circle Time

If last week, we talked a lot about leaves; today, we talked about acorns! We had a special guest who came to our class- Chipmunk! Chipmunk told us that he absolutely loves eating acorns! We helped him gather some- when Chipmunk says, "I want 6 acorns, please!" or "I want 7 acorns, please!" then we count carefully and make sure he gets the correct number of acorns asked for.

After eating, Chipmunk asked where can we find acorns.

"Park," E and A replied at the same time.

"Sometimes acorn fall down is broken," A commented.

"Tree," T said.

"Why do trees have acorns?" Chipmunk asked.

"Because cicada eat acorns," T said.

Chipmunk said that Pauline would read a book so that we can learn more about acorns. She read

"Little Acorn" by Melanie Joyce. In the book we saw that the squirrel buried the acorn in the soil.

"Why do you think he did that?" Pauline asked.

"He likes to do that," T said.

"For eat," A said. We learned that when the acorn got buried in the ground, after a long time, it sprouts roots and--

"Leaves," E said. After reading,

Pauline asked us, "What happens to the acorn?"

"Bigger and bigger and bigger and tree," T said.

Park Time and Afterschool Class (Turn the Beat Around)

We checked if it was still drizzling so we looked out the window and held our hands out to feel the rain. Sure enough, we felt the cold mist from the drizzle, so our teachers decided to stay indoors. We played the freeze dance game and musical chairs. After lunch, the weather was so

much better, so we went to the big park! We played on the slides and then moved to the area with lots of hammocks. We love spending time there! We sang lots of songs as John played his ukulele. Some friends watched us with interest; some clapped and danced along with us. We did an exercise where we would run and try to catch John as he strummed on his ukulele, but when he stopped, we would also stop! It was kind of like the freeze dance game, but we had to use our good listening ears, and it was such a workout! When we left the park, our friends waved goodbye to us. It's always nice to make new friends. We continued our singing on the way back to school.

That's all for today. How about you? How was your day?

Love,

All the energetic children at Lighthouse