Confetti Art, Watering, and Corbin's First Day!

We have a new member of the Casa T. family! Today was Corbin's first day, and he had the best day! When I opened the door, he walked right inside proudly holding his lunch box and practically left his mama behind at the door. When it was time for his mama to go leave, he wasn't so sure about that part, but after a few moments, he was happy as could be and exploring things around the house. The children are so thrilled to have a new friend join us.










Highlights of Our Day

We took Halloween Casarones, and the children opened them (or cracked) them, to remove the confetti inside. Bowls were filled of the multi-colored confetti and then, they had fun further cracking what remained of the eggs into smaller pieces. Then more fine motor practice with the sequential steps of applying liguid glue to the paper, and then adding confetti on top of the glue. Corbin enjoyed grabbing a large amount of confetti and placing it on the glue to cover more space, while Mia and Lulu enjoyed sprinkling confetti in smaller amounts. Sophia and Damon were more interested in the glue itself, so they spent more time exploring its properties.









We read, From Head to Toe, by Eric Carle, which is a great book to practice mimicking and recognizing body parts. And yes, we even read it in Spanish too!




The children helped water the garden today. *If anybody has extra child-sized watering cans, please send to the house.





Free play


Our sugar skulls (calaveras) are now dry, so we will begin assembling them tomorrow and begin painting soon!

Lulu Returns

Today, was 'Lulu's' first day back from summer vacation. She arrived with longer locks of beautiful curls, new freckles, and a boatload of new words! She wasn't sure about her Mama leaving to go to work, but after a few minutes of some cuddle time with me, she was off to explore the added materials!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR DAY

Exploring a Material: Glue

The kiddies explored the properties of glue since they don't have much experiene with glue. I simply offered glue to the children on a covered space to allow for exploration. They experimented with paintbrushes, small spoons, and their fingers. They realized it was sticky, and when semi- dry, it can be rubbed off their skin. The kids later mixed in Red, Blue, and Yellow powder paint and turned their glue different colors.

Later in the day, Lulu discovered dried glue on her arm and noticed it could be peeled off with her fingers (she wan't too keen on this idea because she kept saying "owie, glue"). It was pulling on her little arm hairs. Sophia then began searching her own body for dried glue to peel off, and found some!

They were definitely engaged and had fun exploring how glue works. We're going to continue exploring glue over an extended period of time to deepen their understanding of this material and its properties in preparation of when we begin 'collage' work.

Gardening: Since we're still in the heat of the summer, the only thing we're harvesting in our garden are tomatoes, so we picked the ripe ones, and I'm trying to convince Sophia to leave the green ones attached!

Spanish: Austin brought a book to share, Diez Pequeñas Mariquitas and it was a HUGE hit! Sophia recently learned how to count to ten in Spanish (she often forgets the number 7 though) so she basically took over the counting portion. Thanks Austin (and Mama Allison), for bringing this fun book to share today!