A Week Full of Friends

This week was all about friendships old and new. We talked about what makes a good friend, who are friends are and how to be a good friend. On Tuesday we started out our week talking about friends by reading A Rainbow of Friends. Then we worked together to make a friendship rainbow with our hand prints. Most of the

children loved getting their hand painted and getting messy, however we do have a few holdouts in the messy department. ;-)

On Wednesday, we read The Rainbow Fish which talks about being a good friend by sharing. We then made our own rainbow fish, using water colors, tissue paper and they even got to add a shiny scale or two. Ask them about the shiny scale, rainbow fish had all the shiny scales but wasn't happy until he shared them with his friends. They did such a good job sharing the scales and making beautiful fish!!

We also used fish in the math center to fish for numbers. The children used magnet fishing poles to fish for numbers in the "ocean". They really enjoyed catching fish and also a friend or two when the magnets connected.

Thursday was our Friendship Day. We enjoyed sharing out furry friends during show and tell and also snuggling with them as we read the book Corduroy.

We had a lot of different furry friends come to school with us on Thursday! Teddy Bears, Puppies, Dora, a Panda Bear and even a jellyfish!

Thanks to everyone who brought in fruit for our friendship fruit salad, we had a yummy variety and a very colorful salad. We took turns mixing the fruit and serving the salad during our snacktime. It was delicious!