Hello, Friendly Foxes!
What an adventure we’ve been on with the weather this week! We continue to enjoy romping on our grassy hill while the playground clears of all the icy, slippery surfaces. We love pretending to be penguins, but we like to be able to stand up while we’re doing it! While the rain kept us inside a bit towards the end of the week, we have had a lot of fun with freeze dance games with our wonderful rainbow ribbon wands, and some really fun bean bag alphabet movement games, including a Feed the Hungry Snowman bean bag toss game. We have actually played a lot of fun alphabet and counting games this week, with more to come all the time!
We welcomed February by making our own calendars to take home, and spent the week learning all about the Antarctic region and all the amazing animals who live there. We talked about some of the wonderful species of penguins that can be found there. We started with the wonderful Macaroni penguin, and loved learning about what good jumpers they are, and we loved hopping around like they do! We made our own funny Macaroni penguins with playdough, and on paper and this was a really fun day for us. We then moved on to the majestic Emperor penguin, and learned all about how long the daddy penguins incubate the egg while the mommy penguins go hunting, measured how big they are in real life, measured ourselves, held an egg that looks like theirs, made our own hatching baby Emperor penguins, and played with lots of penguins all week long! We learned a sweet song to remind us about mommy and daddy Emperor penguin jobs – ask your child and they can probably sing it for you! We added this to our special journals. We had so much fun learning all about Orca whales, and most enjoyed making our own silly Orca puppets to bring home. They have such big tongues! This was a refresher for us about how whales are mammals, swim in pods, and migrate to the rich area of Antarctica to feed.
We started looking towards the Arctic region and how they are different, and next week we will focus completely on the Arctic area and all its fascinating creatures. Thank you for the wonderful breakfast this morning, we truly appreciate the love. I am finishing up some mid-year check-in reports to send out to each of you with observations we’ve made about your child and perhaps some goals that we have for them. You’ll be receiving those in the next week or so. Conferences are not necessary, but am certainly happy to answer any questions you might have, and of course schedule a brief time to meet if you would like to do so.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful children with us!
Wynne
