The Whole Child: Monday Group 10.23.17

Our little friends have been very busy inventors, painters, and explorers

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*Leaf Collage Invitation*

Continuing our study of leaves and fall, we used our huge leaf collection to collage! Our Wednesday friends organized our leaves for us according to color which made it easier to choose which leaves we wanted to use for our masterpieces. This exercise was a great way for our minds to warm up in the morning as it took some good imagining and planning to foresee our leaf collage creation. We found that it was a little difficult for us to use the leaves as our collaging material with the glue bottles. Not only did we have to be careful when placing the leaves because they would tear and break, but we would also have to use some muscle to squeeze the glue out of the bottle. We had to be both gentle and strong at the same time!

Nevertheless, our friends persevered through the challenges and created some great artwork! E made a skunk while EG made homes for the animals in her collage. She made homes for a skunk, porcupine, worm, snake, fox, another worm, and a beetle!

With the weather cooling, our friends have been starting to get the sniffles and coughs. This has been a great opportunity to talk about germs and practice good health skills. We have been focusing on coughing in our elbows and independently blowing our noses. I believe this is what led to the following conversation excerpt during our leaf collages:

"My mom doesn't like when I cough on people." - E