Fantastic Friday

Each day the older children at school lead the morning announcements.  They lead us in the pledge, we recite the "Golden Rule," and they tell us what is for lunch.  On some mornings they tell us who's birthday it is. If it is a special day in history they provide us with an explanation.  Each announcement ends with a a closing like have a magnificent Monday, or have a wacky Wednesday.  Today we were told to have a fantastic Friday. So, we did.

Today our read aloud was titled Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar?  This book was a great lead into making predictions.  Some children looked at the cover picture and used the clues to predict that the sister did it.  Some children said the dog did it.  Besides lending itself to prediction this story, was also a counting book that subtracted one from each page, and it was a rhyming book.  On the second to last page the author wrote, "I was hiding in this shoe, when I noticed there were two, stealing cookies is very bad!  So it must have been ......"  At this point the children shouted out DAD, because bad rhymes with dad.  Sure enough it was dad who stole the cookies in the end.

Today during one of our centers the children were given a strip of letters from either their first or last names.  They then had to sort them from letters that are in their names and letters that are not it their names.  To end the day the children had their feet painted for a project by Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Severson.  It was either fun or tickly because they sure did giggle!