Hey everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed the week! We especially appreciated the beautiful cool weather. It's starting to feel like fall! Yay! The beginning of the week, families brought in all kinds of; flowers, leaves, and sticks in that the children had went out and searched for to help make their class wreath. The older classes really enjoyed helping out putting it together later in the week. They were all in awe of the things that were found.
It's "My Senses" week! All teachers were so excited to feature Shawn Brown's song, "Five Senses" into their circle time! To see everyone dancing and laughing to this song was the cutest. It even got stuck in a lot of teachers heads when they got home. You never realize the power learning new things through song can make such a difference until you see it in action in the classroom.
With it being "My Senses" week, we set up a smell station for families at the front. There was so many smells to pick from! It was so hard for me (Ms. Abby) to decide what smells to use for our station. I did some yummy smells and not so yummy smells, I even grabbed ones that were a little harder to figure out. Watching not only the kids play the "What's That Smell" game, but the parents as well, was really fun to watch. Who would've thought that smelling and guessing would be such big hit with everyone. Some even talked about playing the game in their own home. Which is absolutely awesome!
Near the end of the week, we celebrated National Playdough Day! The younger kids really enjoyed being creative with playdough. Most pretended that they were cooking something for each other. Thankfully they pretended to eat it instead of actually putting it in their mouths lol.
We're basically one week away from it being the first day of fall! Who's ready?!? I know we are!
