> Everywhere you looked there were wild jungle animals today! This game that Malia is playing is called ” Hanging Monkeys.” You roll the dice and add or take away monkeys as the dice calls for. You have to balance them . The green tree top is only held on by a magnet. Andrea returned […]
Category: <span>field trips</span>
Let’s go to the library !
> Our morning started off with a wonderful surprise as Audrey’s mom brought in her new baby brother that was born on Monday ! She was SO proud. After making a flag with out handprints ,we decided to go on a walk and visit the library at story time . What a beautiful day to […]
Pizza Pizza !
> To wrap up our unit on people and places that provide food – today we went to Eureka Pizza. The manager, Glenn surprised us by giving us each aprons and letting us cook our own pizzas! We went in the walk in freezer, it was SO cold ! Here we are rolling our dough […]
Field Trip to the Grocery Store
> Evidently I uploaded my pictures in reverse order .. and time is of the essence during nap time, so we will leave it ! Our trip ended with a visit to Barnetts dairyette to grab some ice cream. Ten – thirty in the morning ? It’s ok ! You are only a kids once […]
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People and Places that Provide us Food
> Happy Monday. As I typed that subject line, I realized that most of my table activities today are Halloween type stuff and do not go with out learning unit at all. Oh well … I put jackolanterns out so the kids could pretend dressing up and trick or treating! Environmental Print Environmental Print is […]
Visiting the Health Dept
> Today we walked to the Health Department. We are so thankful we are centrally located and can visit places to learn. The whole experience is a teaching opportunity . We learn how to cross roads safely. We find reminders along the way of other things we have learned. In the pictures below two of […]
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Emergency ! Emergency !
> It is hard to explain to kids why rolling on the ground helps put out the fire if they ever catch on fire. So, today we did this little science experiment. I lit a candle and talked about how it is getting air so the flame stays big. Then I placed a plate over […]
Busy Day
> Today has been a busy day. I wanted to show you some of the new activities we have available. Last year, we ate breakfast 8 at a time and as parents came in one table was already set up with learning stations . They got to get a glimpse at what we do. This […]
Do you hear what I hear ?
> This morning we went on a listening walk. We heard big dogs and little dogs . We heard birds, and crickets and squirrels and cars driving down the street. The weather was beautiful. We stopped in the library and read the book ” The Listening Walk”. The we spent some time playing at the […]
The sense of touch
> We thought the day was going to be a bust again for our trip to the flower shop. We had a special visitor come in this morning to read. Williams dad, Gary, read ” It looked like spilt milk . ” Did you ever lay on your back as a child and look at […]