On the beach

We made islands,

meatballs

and had a teaparty

 CHEERS!

On the beach

We found a little river running along the beach and when we stepped in it we said, "Our feet are sinking!"

Then we started digging . . . 

and we found 2 little creatures :-)

Long Bay Beach playground

The playground was such fun! Some of us got to the very top of the climbing pyramid . . .

and we used the Pinehill Way to remember the toddlers who we were sharing the playground with.

Parts of a book

We have been learning the names for the parts of a book: the cover, page,spine, title, words, letters, front, back, top and bottom. Wow, so much to learn . . . but SO exciting!!!

Buddy reading

This is a special time in Room 19 when we show a buddy how well we can read our book from the day before.

Fine Motor book

We are learning to go from right to left in our Fine Motor book to help us with our reading and writing. This is a good chance for our little finger muscles to show us how strong they are.

We make a rainbow pathway!!

Little finger muscle activities

Here are some more activities that we do to help our 'tweety fingers" get strong and clever for writing:

We thread tiny beads onto fishing line,

we pick up buttons with tweezers,

we hammer little nails into shapes to make a picture and . . .

we squeeze and roll and cut play dough too. 

We are having fun while we are making our finger muscles stronger!!

Pegboards

We make pictures on pegboards. This is fun and helps our little fingers to get strong and clever so that we can cut and write easily.

Scaredy squirrel's forest

Aarush made Scaredy squirrel's forest on a pegboard. Can you see scaredy squirrel up in his nut tree?

He also added all the things that scaredy squirrel was scared of like sharks, killer bees and germs. 

We are not going to be scared of anything as we learn this year! Learning will be fun and exciting but never scarey!

Scaredy squirrel

We are so excited to be in Room 19 this year! We read a book about scaredy squirrel who was too scared to leave his nut tree. 

When he was brave enough to JUMP down from the tree, he suddenly found that he could FLY! 

Yes, he was a flying squirrel and he didn't even know it! 😃

We are going to be brave in our learning this year and just TRY when we are learning new things! Then we will FLY in our learning and scaredy squirrel will be proud of us!