Robots, Transportation, and Sports Day

We talked about robots the last week in February.  We had a lot of fun listening to Robo-Pete, another book in the Pete the Cat Series. Click the link above to hear the story as a read aloud video.
We also had a great time celebrating Naomi's 5th birthday!  She brought in delicious cupcakes for a snack!

Our Tuesday snack, home made funfetti cupcakes...so good!

Of course we sang Happy Birthday in English and Spanish!!

Naomi brought animal masks for all of us!  We had fun wearing them during indoor movement time and pretending to be the different animals...thanks for a great day, Naomi...Happy Birthday!!

We had fun using shapes to make robots.  Here are just a few of our creations.  We also had fun looking at the robot located in our big activity room...we named it Wall-E.

Other exciting news is that our amaryllis bloomed !  The kids were so excited to see it during circle time.

The beginning of March came in like a lion with a snowstorm!  We were talking about transportation during the week.  Show and Tell was the highlight on Tuesday, with all the kids bringing some type of transportation toy to school.  We had remote control cars, hot wheels cars, air planes, and trains.  The kids had a chance to play with their show and tell during activity time. We heard a lot of stories about planes, trains, cars and construction equipment.  We also listed things that make us go.  We came up with ideas like roller skates, scooters, strollers, cars, vans, busses, our feet, boats and trains! We had fun singing the song The Wheels on the Bus during circle time.

 Matthew was our Maple Leaf of the Week.  On Tuesday he brought in posters about himself, his family and his friends at school.  He told us all about the cool posters he brought in.  On Wednesday, Matthew's mom, Karen, came in and read us the Dr. Seuss story Wacky Wednesday.  The kids loved looking at the pictures and finding all the things that went wrong!  Here's the link to the video...show your kids this, I know they will love it!!

On Thursday, Matthew brought in a yummy snack of cupcakes and chocolate milk and then his family came in and created a sports day for us.  They set up a station for basketball, bowling, soccer and a ball toss.  The kids had an absolute ball (ha, ha) rotating through the different activities. Matthew's 2 big brothers, his Dad and his mom came in to work with the kids at each station.  What a great way for us to move around on these cold days in March!

Bowling with Tommy and soccer in the background with Dad.

Ball toss and catch with Mom, basketball with Chuck.

All the athletes!

Thanks Willers for a great way to end the week!