January 29, 2019, Tuesday

FEE FI FO FUM!  We are all happy the heating crisis is done!  Our welcome back morning workshop tables were play dough, race car letter tracks with race cars, and a football spirit drawing table.  What a genius idea to study the letter F the week before the big Football game!  Our friends worked on a new graphing board so we can all route for our favorite team to win the super bowl.  It is all for good fun, as they frown upon wagering in preschool!  Parents are invited to weigh in, too, just put your name on a football sticker and add it to the board.  With that, I will mention here that Friday the children are free to wear their favorite team shirt or colors!  Friday will be a nonuniform shirt day!

At morning meeting we talked about our upcoming special events.  First the visit from Potter League scheduled for 10 AM tomorrow.  All are welcome to attend this inhouse field trip.  As always, if it is not your regular school day, a guardian must stay at the school with their child for the presentation.  We have a basket available for small donations to the animal shelter at the sign in table.  Any donation are welcome and appreciated for this wonderful cause, the list of items they need went home in the January Newsletter packet.  We then practiced our songs for the ice cream social.

Snack today was popcorn and applesauce.  We went outdoors for recess.  We were lucky to have no wind chill today.

After snack, we gathered for a special story telling event of Jack and The Beanstalk.  Many of our friends were familiar with the story, so it was easy to tell without a story book.  This was a wildly interactive story time with no sitting, unless you wished.  We had all the main characters with the highlight of the story being our FEE FI FO FUM cue card person.  We want all those fun "F" words nice and highlighted to enhance our learning!  We had the giant's footprints to go with all the great foot stomping we got to do to help the giant come alive in the story, thus the reason we tell the story on our feet!  You get a much better stomp that way.  These timeless tales many scholars wish removed from preschool classrooms are truly the most enjoyable for them.  As I have mentioned before, it is good to be missing a story prop item or two.  We need to exercise just our pure imagination whenever we are able.  Even so, we do relish when one of our little friends has a brainstorm for what we can use from the classroom.  Or, even better, today a friend offered to share something from home that would be perfect for the story.  That is a fine example of pure community building spirit.

The afternoon was spent working in our HWT workbooks and creating our Valentine's Day cards for our grandparents ice cream social.  We ended our day with some clean up dancing to the tune of Love Potion No.9 before going outside.