Over and under, on and off, up and down……creativity, friendship, kindness, and curiousity overflowed in the rooms at Smart Start this week! We repurposed a hula hoop with the perfect O shape to weave pieces over and under to add to a collaborative art project. To strengthen muscles and hand/eye coordination that’s essential, we used droppers of water to carefully fill the rows of a pop-it with water by filling each O just a few drops at a time. Self control, focus, patience and persistence was the key to success when playing the new Operation game! Sensory bins were filled with oats where friends could explore filling cardboard cylinders cut like trees and balancing as many as possible on the branches or friends could practice making shapes in letters by using their fingers as tools.
Ocean animals were available for watercolor and will continue to be there for letter Uu week. A collaborative background has been painted and friends can bring their watercolor ocean animals home or cut them out to add to our art! We used bubble wrap, acrylic paint, watercolor paper, and watercolor paint to make a mixed media octopus in the ocean work of art.
Our building center was filled with Legos to build any creation that came to mind while engineers constructed railroads that went up and down, over and under, all around the train table! In fact we had dual train stations! Of all things we had this week, I believe the invitation with the most traffic was the post office. We had friends writing letters, wrapping packages, delivering mail, and creating cards one after another, day after day! There was so much love shown in the way some of our friends made sure to write as many letters as they could so they could send them home with as many as possible.
Science included learning about how an octopus has no bones so it can fit through tiny spaces! An octopus can also camouflage itself and can use ink as a way to get away when in danger. Wiggle Room included an obstacle course and a game of octopus tag! It was a week that may have been short by one day, but it was not short on fun, play, or learning.
I would like to say that we appreciate you being mindful of the students and staff at Smart Start and keeping your child home when not feeling well or has not been fever free without medication for 24 hours. Please continue doing so and practice catching those coughs and using a tissue for a runny nose/blowing noses.
Have a great weekend!
Ms. Leah, Ms. Jacquita, and the Smart Start team
Here are the rules for octopus tag:
When you are tagged by the octopus you become a crab. That means you must crab walk.
When you high five a fellow crab, you rejoin the game and can run as you were.
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