Monday, October 27th

Lorien looks so excited (not!) :)
So proud of their Liana Vine!

During the course of the day, Darius managed to find an old window

screen & a clothes pin- and made a super hero cape! So resourceful:)

SO proud of his igloo!

Letter of the week “I”
Word of the day: Incubate (English) Iman (Spanish)

9:30-9:45 Opening Circle time. Opening song (“Good Morning/Buenos Dias”). Calendar time. How was your weekend? words of the day. Sharing time. Rain forest introduction- can you think of things in our homes that are from rain forests? What about food from the rain forests?
9:45-10:15 Center exploration: Letter of the week- Trace/color. Painting. Center project: Rain forest Project- Liana vines.
10:15-11:00 Special “I” project: Sugar cube igloos.
11:00-11:15 Story time, “My little Island” by Frane Lessac
11:15-11:50 Wash hands/Snack time/Free Play
11:50-12:00 Closing circle time

We had such a busy but FUN day today! We started off the day by introducing "Rain Forests". To do this, we had the sounds of the rain forest playing as the children walked in the room, with their eyes closed. We discussed the sounds they heard and what they might be. After we opened our eyes, we introduced the different layers of the rain forest, and what types of animals live on each layer. To reinforce the concept, we had a quick project of making our own "Liana vine" which normally is a vine that grows up the big trees of the rain forest- for our own purposes, the children decorated & cut out different things they might find in the rain forest, and hung it on our Liana vine.

After the children had some free play time (to take a break from all that learning!), we made home made igloos out of sugar cubes & home made frosting. This was an easy & fun project for the kids and us! We also looked up pics of igloos on the Internet to show examples of different types of igloos.