Today is Wednesday, February 13th, which means that tomorrow is Valentine's Day! At morning meeting today, we opened up a brief discussion on what tomorrow is, and we got a variety of answers. Many friends focused their sharing on the fact that cards (and other treats) are being brought for the community, and Caimin put in, "It's just for love."
It was clear that there was an excitement about sharing cards tomorrow, so we decided to do some prep work. Since it is likely that many things will be brought in and distributed amongst our class, we took the mailboxes we made during our letter writing study and revamped them with Valentine's flair. Adding stickers, hearts, and drawing based around the theme of love, our boxes now await the delivery of cards tomorrow. The boxes will be sent home with all of their treasure.
In keeping with the theme of love, we also worked on cutting out hearts from paper. This is in fact very challenging for many preschoolers, since the heart is quite a complex shape. To lay down the line work, friends folded papers in half and used a half-heart tracer along the crease. Friends cut along the lines (another difficult task, since the heart has both curves and points) and unfolded the paper to see the heart!
Since First Grade is working very hard to
push the post office and stamp-selling around the Lower School, the
Owls took the chance to familiarize ourselves a little more with money.
Four trays were set out-one for each kind of coin-and a pile of randomly
assorted coins were left on a table. Friends carefully organized each
coin into it's corresponding tray, noticing size differences and
differences in detail.
*apologies for the lack of pictures today, we are experiencing technical difficulties with picasa*
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