Checking Out The Library and E.C. Boxing

Today, we visited Gwen in the library. She read us the story of Annie and the Wild Animals by Jan Brett, a story of a girl who makes the acquaintance of several animals from the woods while searching for her cat friend.

We then were shown where animal books live in our AFS Lower School library, which was very exciting because we actually were encouraged to peruse the library shelves! In fact, Gwen let the Owls pick out animal books to check out and bring back to our classroom! Choices included various cats (both large and small), sharks and dogs.

 We enjoyed being placed into boxes today...ahh the joys of early childhood...

Friends enjoyed using boxes from a grill in multitudes of different ways, and incorporated them into play with other props. At various points throughout the morning, the boxes were ships (both regular ships and pirate vessels, of course), houses, hideouts, platforms of dance, workrooms, vehicles that traveled alongside giant eagles, and simply cozy places for friends to meet, snuggle, and enjoy each others' company. 

The majestic eagle

Pirates spraying water

 Other Owlings:

The fiercest dragon face on this side of Middle Earth

"Look! The sand has holes on the bottom, too!"

"I made it for mom"

We also brought out animals to our playground and enjoyed the possibilities

The Endless Possibilities of a Box

As the children have been working on saying goodbye in the morning and watching some friends have a hard time with goodbyes, the book "Llama Llama Misses Momma" has become a class favorite. As we were reading it this morning, Patrick noticed one page where the animals in the story had made a train out of boxes. He declared that we should do that too, and the other children thought it was a great idea. We set off to ask Tricia in the Office if she had any boxes. She didn't but she thought that Sam the Art Teacher might, so away we went to the Art Room. Sure enough, Sam had one GIANT box for us.

Using some excellent team work, we carried it back to the classroom, where decoration immediately commenced. It became clear, however, that the Owls had very different ideas about to make.

Tamara suggested that we discuss it at Morning Meeting. Their ideas included a train, a plane, and a place to hide. We will have to decide tomorrow what we want to do with our box!

Today was a special day: Lois's Fourth Birthday! She brought some fancy pretzels shaped like the number four for our snack.

At Choice Time, one choice was to make play dough. We quickly ran into a problem. We didn't have any salt! Luckily, we are part of a big community, so we set off for another adventure, this time to the cafeteria. There, Carol and Chef Pat helped us out with a cup of salt.










Other activities in our busy day: