This week the children made caterpillars out of egg cartons and butterflies using a variety of materials. Our book bucket was filled with books related to this topic. It was quite the coincidence on Thursday when we read that the Very Hungry Caterpillar (by Eric Carle) ate strawberries on Thursday and the children were having strawberries for snack the same day.

The children enjoy building with Magnatiles. These are available for play frequently because of their popularity. Today I discovered that another classroom has a box of mini-Magnatiles. I put them out instead of our standard sized ones and they were also very popular. When I was questioned about what happened to them because they were so small, I said they shrunk. No one doubted my explanation. So if your child tells you that the Magnatiles shrunk, just go with it!

Friday was the first time in quite a while that the playground was too wet to go outside. Instead we had a sing-a-long while I played a small keyboard. The children could be heard singing up and down the hallway.