Winter Sports Day

Just a reminder that our Valentines need to come to school by Monday (Green) and Tuesday (Yellow).

We have some new things at our viewing table.  We have a lot of small rocks.  It is fun to try and pick them up with the giant tweezers.  We drop them a lot of the time.  Some of the rocks are really pretty.

Today was Winter Sports Day.  We did Table Top Ice Skating.  We didn't skate on the tables.  That would be silly.  Mrs. Whiteman rolled up towels all around the table and we took round ice cubes and pushed them all over.  The table got really wet.

We also ice skated.  What?  Not with real skates, of course.  We each had two pieces of waxed paper and we stood on the pieces.  Then we skated around all over the room with our special indoor 'ice skates'.

Have you ever drawn with ice?  Well, we got to do that today.  We took regular ice cubes and drew all over our papers with them.  But, what happened to our drawings?

Our story today was called, "Mamma, Do You Love Me?".  This book is about the Inuit people who live in Alaska.  The drawings and the words were all from the way that they live.  Some of them we didn't know, but Mrs. Whiteman told us what they were.  There was an Inuit mommy and child.  The child asked, "Mama, do you love me?"  And the mommy replied, "Yes I do."  Then the child asked her, "How much?"  And the mommy gave her all sorts of answers like "More than the whale loves his spout."  Then the little child said things like "What if I put salmon in your parka?"  The mommy said that she would be angry, but she would still love her little child.  It was pretty funny and interesting to learn new words.

Our snack was from Jordyn.  It was cheese and crackers.  Yum.  Thank you, Jordyn.  And thank you to Aidan's mommy for coming to help us again today.  On Thursday we had a great snack from Carter.  He brought cheese cubes and grapes.  Yum.  Thank you, Carter.  We also got to have Kadence's mommy help us today.  Thank you!

We got to use paint at the Art Table.  We dipped some heart shaped cookie cutters into the paint and the we pressed the shapes onto our paper.  Some of us sure do have a lot of hearts!