New Faces in Magic Kingdom

To kick off the first official blog post from a class, I am going to share some news about some new faces you can see in our class.  We’ve recently had a couple children move from Big Bird Buddies into our class. A couple weeks ago it was Connor, and today we welcomed Buster! Miss Andrea and I are happy to have a couple boys joining our ranks, as the boy population in our class has been outnumbered for the entire school year.  We’ll see what the summer and next school year brings, but maybe our ratio of boys to girls will flip-flop.  Here’s a picture of Buster playing on his first day officially in Magic Kingdom!

We also welcomed a new grown-up face in our room.  Miss Rachel will be student-teaching for 3 days each week. She’s a student at Jackson Community College and will be with us for only 3 weeks. We are certainly happy to get to know another teacher and the children love her already. First thing this morning, I was getting ready to read a book to Rosalinda, and as soon as she learned Miss Rachel was going to be helping in our room, I was left in the dust. She immediately left and asked Miss Rachel to read her book. :) Here’s a picture of Miss Rachel exploring noodles in the sensory table with some of the children at work time.

 

And finally, one last story.  During small group time today, the blue group started exploring the music area.  The children came up with many great ideas about what materials we could use in the music area and how we could use them.  Today, Maya and Max decided they wanted to use the music sticks to bang on the pots and pans from our house area.  The first few minutes was used to bang away freely watching for the cues to start and stop. Then we practiced imitating sound patterns and rhythms.  I think we drove the red group insane while they used stencils in the art area though.  We’ll be sure to try something a bit quieter tomorrow.

Come back tomorrow to hear about some new in Sesame Street! Until then, here are a few more pictures from today and Friday.