Pretzel Alphabet

 We are making the entire alphabet out of pretzels! Usually, we make letters and pictures whenever we have pretzels anyways, so we decided to see if we could make every letter in pretzels.

Before we did that, we built with magnatiles on a platform.

We also explored our new classroom instrument - the auto harp. The beauty of this particular instrument, is that it allows friends to play chords using a series of marked buttons. It sounds quite beautiful and, we discovered, can be played very loudly.

There was also book reading, puzzle assembly and, of course, journaling.

Before we got out the pretzels, we first needed to assembly our reference alphabet. We decided to use our letter stones. To make sure we had the whole alphabet, we put them in - you guessed it - alphabetical order! This required that we sing the Alphabet Song about 57 times (2-3 times per letter). This is how we discovered that many friends were under the impression that "LMNOP" was actually one letter. At this point, we slowed our singing WAY down. When we had finished assembling our alphabet, we were two letters short, so we went to visit the other classrooms to see if anyone had any letter rocks. They did not, but the Owls had foam letters, so we found a "P" and a "T" and then glued them on to rocks.

Next, we got out three different kinds of pretzels and friends picked a letter rock and tried to make the letter. some were easier than others. Once a friend made a letter, we photographed it and then whomever had made it, ate it. Debbie Green came in to join the fun. We got through about half of the letters today - tomorrow, we finish!

In the middle of all of this, the Kindergarten classes came by  for their annual Earth Day Parade and sang us the Earth Day Song. The Catbirds did an Earth Day Dance. Back in the room, we talked a bit about Earth Day and what it means (many friends thought it sounded an awful lot like Birthday). So, we concluded that it was a little like a birthday for the Earth.

Then, we headed outside for some stump jumping, singing, cooking, music, art, books and art.