Unusual weather for our Umbrella Walk

Well, we were pretty excited for Umbrella Day and took our walk in the morning even though it wasn't raining and it wasn't sunny either. We made a giant "U" by sitting under our umbrellas the front entrance after we gathered under the flag pole. Many of the children wanted to tell about their umbrellas so we had our snack of left over carnival popcorn outside in a big circle and visited about the various umbrellas. It turned out to be sunny in the afternoon, so some of the children walked in the shade of their umbrella during the last recess. We also made ducks under umbrella's with a mom helper!

We had the fun story of "The Little Engine that Could" and transferred that good lesson to always giving it a go and doing our best even when we think something might be too hard. The duck and umbrella art took quite a bit of cutting. We used to do more art and worked on the cutting skills, so I knew some of the children might be frustrated with the cutting. So we talked about having a "I think I can" attitude! Tomorrow I have a different version of the same story that has a different illustrator. We will compare and contrast the stories as well as reemphasize this good lesson!

It's been fun to do Show and Tell with prewritten sentences! They are more interesting and we even got some that were verbs rather than something to show! We continue to work on the word 'said' and the quotation marks or 'talking lips'!

I look forward to being with the children all day Wednesday so Mrs. Bartsch can to go a special luncheon with her son that was planned before she took this teaching position.

Have a nice evening!
And please help your child remember his/her LIBRARY book.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Clapper