Team Awesome would like to invite our dads (or other loved one if dad can't make it) to our classroom on Friday morning from 8:30- 9:00. We would like to serve a small snack of donuts and juice and show off our burgeoning reading skills to our dads. Sunday is Father's Day and we are looking forward to a bit of one-on-one time with our dads to show them how much we love them. And don't worry about tidying up afterwards- we'll take care of everything. I was picking brown playdough out from under my fingernails last night and thinking about how it never fails to amaze me how the children constantly come up with new ways to use the same old toys. They have had access to the same activities during morning and afternoon Free Choice time since September and no one has yet to complain. The way they use the objects and the sophistication of their play has changed but the items they are using has not. The blankets and pillows are used constantly for the kitchen centre, during quiet reading, as well as to make forts and as capes and veils. The large building blocks are used to make housing structures, animal pens, towers and castles and lately the large pipes have been slid onto arms for 'Iron Man' armor. Even toys that don't lend themselves to being more than they are, like the Tiny Dolls and Animal Barn, are still in demand but the stories being created are more complex, richer and involve more dialogue than when the children started kindergarten. So even when I am tired of looking at the same old activities day in and day out, that doesn't necessarily mean Team Awesome is ready to throw in the towel.
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