Damon and Lulu explored the Brown Stairs and the Pink Tower. After lining the brown tower in order from biggest to smallest, I turned the largest block a 90 degree angle, and then Damon immediately exclaimed, "Oh! A TRAIN!", so we decided to turn the rest at that angle, and we lined them up from largest to smallest. I continue to coach the children on using these particular [Montessori] materials (they like to build with them and tend to want to knock them over but these particular blocks aren't designed for that). They can certainly build and stack with these, just not knock them over (they're heavy). We use our regular wood block for that type of fun. =)The children also explored the cylinder knobs and since I have two, they got some good practice in on taking turns since each child likes to complete these independently.
While we were outside, Lulu was noticing her shadow, so I took that opportunity to talk with the children about shadow and what causes it. Then they all wanted to make shadows in the sand. This is good because we're going to be doing a lot of explorations with light very soon here!
Corbin enjoys pouring sand on the ledge of the sandbox and pushing the toy trucks through it. (He LOVES these toy trucks and cars). Also found him drawing circles in the sand.
Lots of gross motor running and chasing each other with the playsilks.
Our anticipated Napkin Art from this week:
A full spread today!
Mark, I keep meaning to tell you my son, Domi, thinks your napkin art is the coolest thing!
Emergent People
Art by Lulu
More fingerpaint exploration (and a pic from yesterday too).
Even though I don't do a 'Christmas theme', (you won't find your child gluing cotton balls on a cartoon cutout of Santa here) since I prefer to leave holidays to be a family affair, however, next week, I thought it would be nice to go along with our focus of LOVE, to make some St. Lucy Buns. So we'll be doing some culinary work next week in addition to our explorations.
*Editing to add note about blog readers*
There may be a couple readers who have expired 'permissions'. I think what happens is, if you don't log in with a google/gmail account, you can view the blog as a guest, but it's temporary and apparently auto expires after a month? I think a couple grandparents may be offlist now, but please let me know who, so I can add them back on, but they'll need to use a a google or gmail account if they want to be able to log in after the month is over.
~Andrea
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2 comments:
I always love seeing the tots enjoying the playsilks - there is so much motion and excitement!
Love those dainty little pinky fingers in the air as she smears the paint around.
Love Lulu's people. She does love to draw and paint!
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