Greetings Turtle Families!
The Turtles were hard at work this week, delving into many practical tasks. One ton of gravel was delivered to our forest play area by Ki Derek on Monday, which provided a plethora of hard work and fun play activities. The gravel will help provide better drainage after heavy rainfall. Immediately after it arrived, the students ran over to the large mound to explore. Shortly after, we got to work spreading the gravel over the water and mud. Some students moved the rocks with shovels, others collected them in pots to move and spread, and others worked together to pile the rocks into the wheelbarrow to push and dump. After breaking a good sweat, the rocks were incorporated into play, mostly at the mud kitchen - for cupcakes, stews, and sandwiches!
We began working on a wet felted Valentine’s Day craft this week, which we will complete on Monday, just in time for the big day! The students enjoyed choosing different colors of dyed felt, pulling it into small pieces and felting the fibers together with soap and water. Our story was a Valentine’s tale as well. Papa Georgio was tired of the dark colors of winter and wished to see bright gold like the sun. As he sat in his favorite chair looking out the window on Valentine’s Day, he had an idea! He searched his home for mesh bags and thistle seeds, filled the seeds into the bags and hung them outside his picture window. No sooner than the last bag was hung, golden finches came to feast. He was happy to give the beautiful golden birds a gift. He fell asleep watching them and when he woke up he went outside to see that the birds had left him a gift as well. See if your Turtle can tell you what it was!
Reminders/Announcements:
Thank you for sending your children well prepared for play in the forest! Proper gear makes a huge difference and the Turtle class played comfortably in the mud, the frost, and the warm sun this week!
Conferences are this week! I am looking forward to speaking to everyone :)
Mid Winter Break is February 21st - 25th
Kindly,
Ki Amy
