Being a Good Friend

This morning the kids worked at two stations. They first practiced the 4 letters we have been working on with a do-a-dot marker.

 Then they had to put them in a special order to spell FELT. They also worked with wiki sticks to get our fingers ready for Ms. Michele.

Ms. Michele had three activities for us today. In the first area we bounced a ball with a partner with special circles, threw frisbees and crawled through the tunnel. The second area had a plasmacar and scooters. The kids each took a turn riding to the end, going around the cone and coming back to the start line. The last area was finger fun. Ms. Michele had big marshmallows, little marshmallows, coconut and flour in a big tub. Some of the marshmallows were sticky and the coconut smelled like the beach.

Our story today was "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi. There's a new dog in the junkyard, and he is very grouchy! He seems to be the perfect friend for the grumpy Rat. But the two animals are only interested in shouting at each other. "Don't you come near me!" barked Dog, and Rat screamed back, "Fine with me. Don't need friends, don't need 'em at all!" But the two animals soon realize that everybody needs a friend. Especially during a cold winter in a junkyard where warmth is hard to find—and a foot-long salami sandwich is a near-miracle. After reading the story the kids brainstormed ways to be a good friend. In the story Rat and Dog did many things that were not nice to each other...but to be a good friends we need to share, not fight, help each other and have fun when playing with our friends.

For art today the kids made friendship flowers. They each picked three different colored hands to be three friends they have in their class. They followed directions to glue down the flower "hand" petals and draw the stems. Then they each picked three friends in the class to be part of their friendship flower and we wrote their names on the petals.. It was great practice remembering all our friends names!

The day went by so quickly! Tomorrow will be our first Young Athletes class with Ms. Abby....the kids are going to love it!