Ta-Da!

TRAPEZE ARTS
Stephan conducted a great session, beginning with safe stretching. We then practiced human pyramids and somersaults. The skills taught on the real trapeze were how to mount/dismount and hanging upside down. They loved it.


MOST POPULAR ACTIVITIES
Mask making continued to be very popular. Already children are beginning to modify the stencil designs to make their own ideas (robots, monsters, etc..) Rhoda Kellogg, our schools founder would eschew the use of stencils as being unnatural, but would still find pleasure in the visual schema incorporated in Nate's tiger mask. The circle with the cross in the center is one of the most prevalent images in her research of child development.


SENSORY SCIENCE
The other activity that gave practice to our sharing skills was at the sensory table. Where groups of four squirted warm water through a huge block of ice to liberate a seal and polar bear. We have another with two large polar bears for tomorrow.



TODAY'S STORY
We didn't get to this one until the afternoon story time, so we'll be reading it at the big story time tomorrow morning. Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, tells the tale of one smart little fish who organizes all the other little fish so they are not eaten or scared into remote corners of the ocean. We could use that lesson in November.