Dear Joyful Beginnings families,

Last week passed so fast! We finished our first story and finger play. The children enjoyed the story “The Kissing Hand”. It is a classic story about how a mother raccoon helps her child understand that her love will stay with him wherever he goes, even to school. The children’s favorite is the fingerplay “Whisky, Frisky”. They had so much fun doing movements with the fingerplay and they loved the little puppet show with the story apron. This week, we are going to start our art project for the Day of Courage. We will paint stars with watercolor and will also begin to tell a story about a young boy named George and a baby dragon. To celebrate the slowly changing seasons, we are going to sing new songs about autumn leaves in our circle time.

Ki Priti has joined our class since last week. Welcome Ki Priti! She will be working as the assistant in our Joyful Beginnings classroom Monday through Friday. She had supported classes in kindergarten classrooms in the Wasatch Waldorf school in Utah before recently moving to Georgia. She and her husband have two children in our Grades program as well. Ki Ieva will focus on Handworking classes and will come in and help Joyful Beginnings every now and then. We love Ki Ieva and we want to thank her for all she has done for us!!!!!

Song and Fingerplay we have learned:

Good Morning Dear Earth Whisky Frisky

Good morning dear earth, Whisky, Frisky, hippity-hop!

Good morning dear sun. Up he goes to the tree top!

Good morning dear resting stones, Whirly, twirly, round and round,

And the plants that grow. Down he scampers to the ground.

Good morning dear trees, Furly, curly, what a tail!

And the birds everywhere. Tall as a feather, broad as a sail!

Good morning to you, Where is his supper? In the shell;

Good morning to me. Snappy, cracky! Out it fell!

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