This morning we went to the 8th grade classroom to listen to the speeches for student council President. We discussed how they were going to take a vote and count the votes, just like we do in our class.  

Outside time 

Many important social skills are developed in outdoor play.  The friends are learning how to ask for turns with the swings.  They are learning that sometimes they have to wait.  They are also learning how to interact with one another.  The friends have continued to love to play "Crunchy Crunch."  This was a game they made up the first week of school.  :) 

We are also learning how to show God's love to each other! 

The mud kitchen was extremely popular this morning.  This provided a natural opportunity to learn those important social skills mentioned previously. 

We found an ant in our classroom! 

We put the ant in a container. 

"Wait!  He is going to crawl out of that one.  We need to find a different one." 

During small group time the friends drew a picture of a cricket. Then, each friend had a turn during free choice time to observe a cricket and draw it again in an observational drawing.  It is fun to see how the drawings change as the friends have an authentic cricket for observation.    

Observing the cricket and drawing the details. 

We then went to the library.  Thank you Mrs. B. for reading to us today! 

During afternoon meeting we acted out our Jesus time story for the week.  We remembered that God sent Jesus to die on the cross to save us from our sins! 

We then had a a discussion of how we could change our classroom for our bug project.  Many of the friends wanted to to make bug hotels and/or bug traps.  During free choice time they went straight to work.