A Very, Very Busy Day!

Hi Folks! My favorite celebration day so far has been the doctor day. I was surprised when I got to school, because it looked like a real doctor's office. There was a real diploma, saying that I was a doctor, and there was a waiting room with magazines and music.

The best part was getting the charts and schedules ready. We had 8 patients lined up.
Nurse Penny helped me measure the patients because I wasn't tall enough.
Daci and Sarah were my favorite patients, because they actually didn't wiggle as much as the adults did.
I checked ears, heartbeats, eyes, blood pressure, and a lot of other things. Almost everyone had their left ear infected. That was not a problem because I had medicine to give them. (But it was actually treats!)

It was a very, very busy day. I hope we can do doctor day again!

By: Allison Story

What We Do, We Remember

Allie was excited to learn in her morning message that she would be writing a friendly letter, and actually putting a stamp on it and mailing it! She decided to write to her Grandma Wrey and tell her what she has learned about the fascinating "paper wasps."

One day last fall, while exploring Fairy Woods with Allie, she found a paper wasp's nest. We did some research and found that the paper wasp chews bits of wood off old fence rails or fallen trees. She bites the wood chips into tiny pieces to make paper. The wasp uses this paper to build the nest. She may build her nest under a bridge, on the edge of a building, or on the wood that she used to make the paper. We were excited to find the very fence rail that the nest came from! Allie remembered all of this information clear from last fall, and wrote a very informative, and friendly, letter to her grandma. I may not be quoting this perfectly, but I believe Maria Montessori said, "What we hear, we forget, what we do, we remember." I couldn't agree more.
Today Allie learned the 5 parts of a friendly letter: 1)Date 2)Greeting 3)Message 4)Closing 5)Your Name. She also learned how to properly address an envelope.
With a lick of a stamp, and a trip to the mailbox, the letter was on its way.

Penny Roberts