A drum jan during morning Choice Time...
Followed by another book by Percussionist/Author/Illustrator Brian Pinkney during Library time. When the children returned to the classroom, they took turns sharing their library books with partners, practicing their literacy and communication skills. We had a delicious snack. At Morning Meeting, we explored patterns, ten frames, and counting by 1's and 10's. Then we were off for some sunshine-drenched Outdoor Play!
We concluded play time and went to Music class with Aedin!
After music, we engaged in fun literacy activities, playing letter and word games and puzzles, building phonemic awareness, and practicing reading. Our action-packed morning finally culminated with a delicious and nutritious (we have noticed the wonderfully healthy lunches you provide your children) lunchtime! After lunch, we walked across the AFS campus, taking in the stunningly gorgeous autumn colors, to visit our friends at A Step Up Academy! We played with them on their playground, and sang songs with them.
One might think our musical explorations were done at this point in the day. However, as we walked back toward Kindergarten, we noticed some musical sounds coming from the Upper School Music Room. We saw Jayne, the chorus teacher. I explained to the students that this coming Monday, Jayne would accompany Aedín on piano as our very own music teacher sings us opera! The children are so excited for Monday! One of our kindergartners said, "I wish we could go in and see the big kids play music."
Jayne said, "I'll go ask them right now!" A minute later, we were treated to some live Samba music performed by the Upper School Music Teacher named Mark, and an Upper School student named Emily. The children were starstruck!
To cap off our adventures, we stopped by the "Black Box," a room used by our theater students, and made the room very dark while running around pretending to be vampire bats, ghosts, and werewolves...way too fun! When we finally landed back in our classroom, we had just enough time to read a picture book about Halloween...
... and when we ended our day together with our ritual Appreciation Circle. There was a whole lot to appreciate!!!
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