There is a 1987 movie called ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ that I thought of this week as your children made and played with planes, trains and automobiles. Our classroom was nothing like the movie, but with all of the imaginative play that goes on, we could have made our own movie.

Some of the activities that were available this week are:

The children enjoy our weekly Music class with Mrs. Wada. For the last few weeks we have been learning some simple Irish dances. She has also taught us the Scottish folk song “What Shall We Do with a Bouncing Baby” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKmN4Fgdw0s). All the children and teachers get to hold a small stuffed animal and do all the movements (some made up by Mrs. Wada) with the ‘baby’ animals.

We also continue to have our weekly Movement Class. Now that the children know all the songs in the repertoire, it is fun to watch them as they follow along to all the movements in the songs. The songs I use are divided into playlists and the children like to know which playlist we are doing. This week it was Playlist 23. If you have a music streaming service, your child may be able to teach you some of the songs.

Playlist 23 includes: Warm Up Time (by Tumble Tots), Shake, Shake (by Magic Leaf Learning), Side to Side (by Nancy Kopman), The Airplane Song (by Laurie Berkner), Stomp Your Feet (by Brendan Parker), Country Classics Stop and Start (by Hap Palmer), and It’s Such a Good Feeling (by Daniel Tiger).