Day Ten ~ Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillars & the Tuna Cactus

Monday, April 26, 2010
I never did write anything in my journal for today except: “In Kindergarten all day / Colossians Bible study from 3 to 5”

By the end of the day, I was just plain exhausted!!!!!!  But, it was one of those good exhaustions, one where you know that you have done well & accomplished lots!

The Kindergartner’s theme of the day was Caterpillars. The big word they learned was Metamorphosis. I had such a blast playing with them & watching them learn so quickly!

There are only 4 little girls in the class.  One of them just turned 4 years old.  From what I understand, the main reason she is in the class is to encourage her to speak English?  That was easy for me to do, since I didn't understand most of the Spanish she was saying anyway!  I would just say to her, "English only" or "Again, in English".  They are all adorable, but that little 4 year old really "took to me".  If I was sitting on the teacher chair reading to them, she didn't want to sit on the mat with the other girls, she wanted to lean on my lap.  If I was sitting on a chair at the table with them, she would put her hand on my arm.  So cute!  :)  

They loved all the activities: the cutting, pasting, coloring, singing, sequencing, storytime, math chants, etc…

But, they especially liked Larry the Caterpillar ~ he was my fuzzy wuzzy my yellow finger puppet, created by rolling a fat pipe cleaner around my finger! Larry the Caterpillar taught them about the 4 stages of Metamorphosis, along with motions for egg, caterpillar, cocoon, & butterfly. It was especially fun for them to wrap each other up in a cocoon, using a small sheet! They each got their own fuzzy wuzzy caterpillar too, which they carried with them all day ~ took them off to eat snack and lunch, put them back on, took them off for gym class & put them back on again… SO CUTE!

Here are some of their smiling faces!

We also went to see the 2 roosters that came to our school today.  We talked about what they looked like & if maybe they were friends or relatives of each other.  

 

After I dropped them off at gym class, I tried to capture the beauty of my favorite plant on the school's campus.  I was told it is called the Tuna? (that's in Spanish, not at all related to the fish!!!)

And, these are some smiling faces AFTER gym class, potty, & drinks of water!