Celebrating Friendship, Eating Yummy Food, and Enjoying a Good Book

We all long for friendship and in preschool we

celebrate it daily, but maybe on days like today

we just express it a little bit more. I felt that

the song You've Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story

was a fitting tribute to our post today. Enjoy!

What a fun day!! We began with passing out 

friendship notes/Valentines to all our friends.

We then began our Friendship Cherry Pies!! 

Each child placed a graham cracker in a ziploc bag

and began crushing it. Some used their fists,

while others tried their elbows.

After the graham cracker crumbs were in the cup

each child would put cherry pie filling in next.

I put the whipped topping in for each child 

and then they placed the cups on a tray.

The trays went in the fridge until after lunch 

when we thoroughly enjoyed our treats.

Had to share this hair!! One of my

parents found this inspiration on Pinterest

to do for her daughter's hair. Awesome!!

 I then shared on of my favorite Valentine's Day stories,

Slugs in Love by Susan Pearson. In the story Marylou the slug

has a crush on Herbie the slug. Great story and lots of 

opportunities for discussion as words are introduced,

such as: bashful, sublime, and more. I've shared this

story for 3 years and this year's group were the most

engaged in the story that I've experienced. There was

even talk about how Marylou began a little shy and got

less and less shy as the story went on and questions

about how she wrote with her "slime". Love it!!