“We need to decorate the house!” “I’ll get some tires.” “We’re making cookies for Santa.” “I’ll make some for his reindeer!” “Is that the cookie you made for me?” “Uh, actually you just sat on your cookie.” “Can somebody help me move the tire?” “Hey, you’re blocking my oven!”
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P says as she’s approaching our outdoor ‘car’, “I’ll be the big sister, you (M) be the Dad and you (Q) be the Mom. Okay?” Q answers, “Yes!” and M smiles. “Let’s go”, says P. The drivers change seats and N approaches the car and climbs aboard. P says, “you can be the little sister, okay?” N smiles. “Let’s eat,”
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Finger painting is a pleasurable, messy and creative art activity. This activity, which involves much more than merely spreading paint with the fingers, should more accurately be called hand painting. Finger/hand painting encourages children to make direct contact with the medium, there is no brush to separate the artist from paint. Children enjoy the cool, slimy texture!
A few friends gathered food for their new home. After eating their ‘lettuce’, B decided that they needed an oven in their new house. So he moved an oven in! “Now we need a tunnel entrance” declared T. T & T built the tunnel entrance, and then tried it out. Our new house!
A friend brings a piece of bubble wrap to the light table, saying, “This bubble wrap is mysterious on the light table.” The same child pauses, and then says, “What does mysterious mean?” His friend says, “Mysterious means mysterious.” A few seconds later, the first child gasps and say, “I know what mysterious means! It means something is very, very odd!”
Some children find the parking spots another group had made the day before. They negotiate where everyone will park, and decide they need to add another stall. Suddenly one friend stops, saying, “Uh oh, I think I ran out of fuel.” His friend asks, “What kind of fuel do you need?” “I need green fuel with leaves and rocks.” “Here you go!”
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A ABC By Dr.Seuss A Bumblebee Sweater By Betty Waterton A Train to Timbuctoo By Margaret Wise Brown A Visitor for Bear By Bonny Becker B Bear about town By Stella Blackstone Bear Feels Sick By Karma Wilson Builder Goose By Boni Ashburn C Charlie Cooks Favourite Book By Julia Donaldson Curious George By Margaret & HA Rey Corduroy By Don Freeman D Dandelion
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The movement of sand and stones….digging, filling, pushing, emptying and moving – the wonder of it all!
“Ploomp go the first fat raindrops…” “Each little drop digs a dark little hole and the smell of wet dust tickles my nose.” “On the old tin roof of the garden shed the drops all try to talk at once…Ping Ping PingaDing…“ “…and they chuckle together as they run down the drain.” “Tomorrow I may find all the rain gone, with only a sparkle
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