A Great Day!!

Today we had a great day at school.  The children enjoyed listening to the story My Truck is Stuck during reading time.  The main character in the story gets his truck stuck in a hole that the beavers have made in the road.  A car, a moving van, a jeep, and a school bus try to use teamwork to pull the truck out, but they have rotten luck and the truck stays stuck.  In the end a tow truck gets it unstuck, but in the mean time the beavers have taken all of the bones out of the truck.  The poor driver will certainly have a surprise when he goes to unload his truck.

During centers today the children made a book title I See Wheels.  They read each page to see how many wheels it was supposed to have for its illustration.  Then they dipped an empty spool of thread in black washable ink and made wheel prints.

As a large group we played the game "Little Mouse."  I set out a group of  colored houses.  The children closed their eyes, and while they were closed I hid a mouse under one of the houses.  We then sang, "Little mouse, little mouse are you under the ________ house?"  The children each took turns picking a colored house to see if they could find that tricky mouse.

To end the day today we went in the cafeteria and played with the parachute.  I saw lots of SMILES during this activity!