Wonderful Wednesday!

Here we are on a wonderful Wednesday!  The friends pictured above used their best play dough skills to make something they called "grandpa" cakes.  They have so much fun creating all kinds of things and sharing them with our classmates.  Then pictured below you see us on our walk to the playground.  Even though it might be steamy and warm, we have lots of fun running and playing.

 Of course when we return to our classroom, we continue to play and do learning activities.

 … Puzzles are the biggest attraction in our classroom, with boys and girls working hard to solve them together.  If your child tells that puzzles make your brain grow... they really do.  It takes a lot of focus to figure these things out and this group of children LOVES them.

Then we also went down a slight rabbit hole as I talked about our healthy snack for the day and what it means for us to take care of our bodies. I do not deny that we occasionally get distracted by what is going on around us... and today it turned into a discussion of our skeletons inside our bodies.  It is no secret that we talk a lot about what it means to be in a four year old preschool class... especially how we all start as babies and really cannot do anything for ourselves.  This helps us understand how important it is for us to be responsible in our classroom and try new things.  Some things are simple - like trying new healthy foods (today it was carrots) and some things might be a little more difficult - like using scissors or even taking the time to practice writing our name correctly.  BUT today it was all about taking care of our bodies... and the important job our bones have inside of us to be the "skeleton" to keep our bodies upright and moving.   

I even jumped ahead and pulled out my x-ray puzzle.  The children had so much fun measuring to see who was taller than our puzzle and really examining the way our bones look inside our body.

 So... you just never really know what we talk about in our classroom and the many different ways that we learn.  Maybe I should have called this post "Wacky Wednesday?"  Either way it was a fun day of learning for all of us!