Friendship Quilt

This morning we worked our finger muscles with molding clay. The kids pinched, pulled and rolled the clay into different shapes and animals. It is hard work moving the clay and was a great way to start off our day.

I decided to mix up our morning circle since we had so many wonderful adult helpers today. We start by talking about the calendar and practiced the days of the week, months of the year and counting. Then we moved to writing centers. We worked on our journals describing our favorite things we did this week at school, practiced writing our letters with our favorite writing apps on the iPad (iWriteWords and ABCs & 123s) and made letters with magnetic pieces.

Our story today was "Friends" by Helme Heine. Charlie Rooster, Johnny Mouse, and Percy the pig are the best of friends. They do everything together. They ride their bike together, play games together, and even do their chores together. Because that's what good friends do. When night falls, though, and it's time to go to bed, they learn that sometimes friends have to be apart. But that's okay, because true friends always find each other, even if it's just in their dreams. After reading the story we talked about the importance of friends and how we should treat our friends. We should not copy cat, be mean or not share...we need to play nice, take turns and have fun with our friends.

For art the kids made a friendship quilt. Each kid had a quilt square to create. They followed the pattern of square and triangle pieces to complete the quilt. Once everyone finished their own piece we put them all together to make a big friendship quilt to hang in our classroom.

We ended the day with "Sounds Around Town" and Show and Tell. We reviewed the sound brothers and brainstormed different words that started with the letters /p,b,t,d/. Then it was time for Show and Tell. The kids were sooo excited! Jack D. brought his brown bear, Austin brought a train, Dhruv brought a fire truck and Tripp brought a pirate hook.

This has been a great week learning about friends. Next week we will talk about where we live! Have a great weekend!