Clown School

Today's Joy School was taken over by clowns,

they have an important job to do... making people laugh!

Before we could learn how to be clowns, we needed red noses. 

Most clowns preferred one nose, but some wanted more and some wanted less.

We did silly clown things like 'wiping' the smile on and off our faces.  

And we learned some new jokes.  The favorites were:

"Knock, knock"

"Who's there"

"Lettuce"

"Lettuce who"

"Let us in, it's freezing out here!"

and

"What is a shark's favorite lunch?"

"Peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches!"

We practiced tight-rope walking...

and tried juggling, which requires lots of practice!

 

For snack we ate all of a clown's favorite foods: cotton candy, circus peanuts and...

carrots? (who knew, luckily we had some on hand!)

Yummy!

The Letter C

Wednesday was all about the letter C.

We practiced making letter C sounds and writing letter C's on our chalkboards.

We took turns finding objects that begin with the letter C.

We found a crown, a croc, a clothespin, a cub, some corn (as in popcorn), a cat, and some cereal.

We learned that letter C is sneaky and sometimes sounds like letter S.

And we helped each other find all of the letter C's that had been lost in a page of letters.

We made some popcorn using a noisy air popper and the kernels of corn that we found earlier... 

air popping was fun, but the popcorn was not very tasty until we added some salt!

Rectangles

Today was all about rectangles... those silly shapes that are like a square, but stretched out a little (or a lot). We practiced drawing rectangles, which have two long sides and two short sides.

A treasure hunt helped us identify rectangles in our environment,

and more importantly, led us to a snack...

...rectangle cheese and crackers.  There are many ways to eat them, 

Bryn's method was a triple decker which impressively stayed in tact until she had eaten the entire thing!

(Sorry, I think everyone had a red mustache from the punch at snack).

After snack, we created robots using paper rectangles in different sizes and colors.

 

 

 

Yay rectangles!!!