After Halloween and many days of illness, we finally got to count our monies for UNICEF today. We gathered together to estimate how much money we had collected by dumping all the boxes into a single container. Then we divided up the coins and sent each child to sort and count the coins. By the days end we celebrated knowing how children in other places would be helped by our efforts. "It's the joy inside that we celebrate knowing that we are helping others," someone said.
We've also been talking and reading a great many books with patterns as we look ahead to writing some of our own. Today a pair of children was given a picture book and asked to read it with and decide upon whether it contained a pattern in it. After a time partners came up to explain their findings to classmates. Tomorrow we'll begin writing some of our own.
At lunch time we "mixed-it-up." We let children sit anywhere they wanted and they did such a great job of selecting new friends to sit with. It was nice seeing the dining room from a different perspective and hope we can do so again very soon.
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Max really enjoyed the UNICEF drive. He donated quite a bit of his own money because he felt it was such an important cause. We were very proud him for taking such initiative. Thank you for all the wonderful things you do for Max and his classmates.
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