Grouptime events

Honey, Honey Lion by Jan Brett is our book study for this week. Our focus are the ideas of cooperation, community, and gratitude. In the story the honey guide bird helps the badger look for honey. As a "thank you" treat the badger shares a portion of the honey to the bird. We used this example to show the importance of working together in order to have a healthy, happy community. To practice these ideals we worked in partners and as a team to solve puzzles together. We also listed different ways we can be helpful at home and at the centre. Attached are videos of amazing partnerships among humans and animals. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=D544WoTj5qI&feature=related (amazing partnership) http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=N6jVvZrxpUs&NR=1 (honey guide & human)

CLoudy with A Chance of Meatballs is our book study for the week. The children explored different cloud movements and imagined how it's like to be floating up high or down low. It sure would be fun to have food showers but then we figured it would also be too sticky and messy. For art we did splatter painting using golf balls and bouncy balls. We pretended they were meatballs falling from the sky. The children noticed the mixing of colours and how the height of where they throw the balls from can change the paint splatters. To end our grouptime we read the story, Little Cloud by Eric Carle. We showed the different cloud shapes and movements in our yoga practice. ENjoy your week. kathryn