Group Meeting:  We had added a music center to our play area for the children.  The instruments are mainly percussion at this time.  We have added a CD player with a microphone for the children to use for singing or for playing a variety of music.

Story:  Our story for today was In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek.  In this book, our many emotions are discussed using descriptive words that  a child can understand.  For example, when you are happy, your heart feels like a star that could lift you off the ground.  When you are angry, your heart feels like it is going to explode. 

Small Groups:  The activities for this week and the schedule for today are listed below.
Activity #1 (red group)  The children completed 10 frame puzzles to help them count and add to 10. 
Activity #2 (yellow group)  The children played a rhyming words game in which they had to match picture cards.
Activity #3 (green group)  The children rolled a dice and drew the corresponding amount of dots onto a heart.

Large Group:  The children played Musical Hearts.  This is a game similar to Musical Chairs except that we use large heart cutouts instead of chairs.  When the music stopped, they had to find a heart to stand on.  Gradually, we removed hearts, but the children were encouraged to share a heart.  At the end, everyone was standing on one large heart.

Snacks:  The morning class had graham crackers, grapes, and juice brought by Jaxson.  The afternoon class had muffins and milk brought by Libby.  Thank you!