Patrick played briefly with his brother, then hung out on the reading sofa. He talked about his haircut with Gwen. During circle time we sang songs and talked about our emotions. We reviewed the rules of the room and talked about earthquake safety in advance of today’s drill. We practiced the drill (under the table in a crouch position) with a minimum of tears, then we went outside. Patrick used a yellow cup to collect rocks with Jane. He sat on a lawn chair with Beatrix, then played in the dirt by himself and ate some basil. During circle time Fei played the ukulele and we sang children’s songs. Each kiddo held an animal figurine as we talked about farm animals, then we use whiteboards to practice rainbow math from 0 to 10. The big kids worked on a math worksheet while the young’uns wrote on whiteboards.
He slept about 100 minutes. During circle time we snacked and talked about using our quiet voices and not banging objects at the table. The older kids made extravagant patterns on the lightboards with translucent tiles while the middles matched animals and their patterns and the young’uns played with dino figurines.