Hello, Friendly Fox Families!
We’ve had a wonderful week learning all about nocturnal and diurnal animals. We really focused quite a bit on nocturnal foxes, since we are the Friendly Foxes! We learned lots of fascinating facts about foxes, such as how they can climb trees, what excellent hunters they are, what type of dens in which they sleep, how well they can hear, how they have whiskers on their legs to help them move around safely in the dark, how playful they are, and so much more. We even learned that they are truly considered friendly in the natural world, just like we are! We even added a special Friendly Little Fox poem to our special journals today. You can read a copy on our bulletin board, or come on in and read it with your child in their special journals. You are always welcome to come in and look at them with your child. We want you to always feel welcome to explore and visit at drop-off time!
We read some great books, our favorite of which was “How to Find a Fox” by Nilah Magruder. We discussed how lots of different nocturnal creatures are awake only at night, and how diurnal creatures are usually active during the day, like us! We played with some nocturnal animals in sensory bins, played in the dark with light boxes, made patterns together, introduced a letter game, Mr. Munch, who loves to eat our alphabet soup, made lots of different fox crafts, and so much more! We are really enjoying being outside as much as we can while summer lasts, so we’ve even taken a couple of activities outside.
We celebrated another Friendly Fox birthday, and enjoyed our story time with our special visitor, Allison. We held our first fire drill, which was a great success! The children did a wonderful job listening and walking safely. We also all placed our hands on our special class agreements sign (now hanging near the calendar) which reminds us to be safe and kind. We truly see that the children are already so wonderfully kind and gentle with one another. Thank you for being such great partners in this with us!
Next week we will have Entomology week. Thanks to Leo’s family, we are so excited to have a monarch caterpillar munching away in our classroom! We are watching it closely and even singing good morning to it each day. Next week we will learn all about them, along with many other interesting insects.
Thank you for a wonderful week!
Wynne
Wisdom begins with wonder
