Lots to Do

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In the freezer downstairs, we have another batch of frozen ice balls. so, our current question is, "What should we do with our ice balls?" This is a more complicated kind of question, so friends are giving it serious thought. 

The final votes are in for the question, "Is Spike a monster?" and it was a very close one. With 100% participation, 7 Catbirds answered 'Yes,' and 6 answered 'No.' In a democracy, this would mean that Spike would be declared a monster. In a Quaker school, it means that we are a long way from consensus.

We had a busy beginning, which culminated in joining the Owls out in the commons for some music playing. We had a variety of instruments, and we sang soft and loud and medium and like dogs, cats, chickens, cows and cowboys. Lots of friends got to share their ideas about how we could sing and play.

After snack, we got bundled up and headed out to play in the snow. We found a lot of ice around that we put to good use.

At Morning Meeting, we had a Moment of Crying and then a Moment of Laughing, before we had our Moment of Silence.

We read a new Mo Willems (our current favorite author) book, and everyone had a chance to give their opinion of the story. We are spending some time thinking and talking about books after we have finished reading as a way to extend our enjoyment of stories as well as stretch our comprehension.

We also introduced some new elements for Choice Time. New foods for the kitchen area were greeted with great excitement. We also set up the overhead projector to shine on the easel, along with a number of stencils. There were also magnetic pattern blocks on the puzzle table as a new activity, and the ever favorite water table. Other choices included flubber and, as always, books.

Stick Figures

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The Catbirds started their morning off by playing with their stick figures. Friends used themselves in stick form to help journal, pilot airplanes and even just to read books. 

Before heading outside to play, we had a quick dance party. The Catbirds are great dancers and really love to shake their groove things!

While we were outside friends, noticed that the sandbox was hard. Some friends thought it may be frozen while others thought the sand turned into rock. Friends ended up realizing that if they work as a team, they could chip away at the "frozen rocky sand" and scoop it up and make sand cakes. 

Other friends enjoyed making designs in the snow with sticks, leafy branches and their fingers. 

Before we turned into Catbird Snow-people, we headed in for a story. Danielle read us a book called Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs. We talked about what other story Goldilocks was in. Friends tried to guess what was going to happen next in the story, based on the book The Three Little Bears. But the this story had a different ending!

After our story, we had Choice Time. Friends were able to choose between paper airplane making, the water table (that was filled with lots of bottles and cups that are great for practicing our pouring), the pomegranates and our stick people. 

Friends used the stick people in our doll house. They also made furniture out of the wooden blocks, so they could pretend they were sitting, or laying down for a nap. After all the paper airplanes landed, pomegranates were eaten and stick people were put to a nap, we cleaned up and ate our lunch and then snuggled into our sleeping mats to listen to a Winnie the Pooh story and dozed off to sleep.