> Before I go into todays activities I would like to show you a picture of one of the things that makes me smile. I love walking into a room to find children learning and helping each other. Some things out on our table this week. We have four flannel pieces that depict air, water, […]
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Top Hat Tuesday
> We had a fun time today balancing things on our head like Cat in the Hat. Group pictures with the kids on Terrific Top Hat Tuesday ! I am NOT a hat girl… The kids ended up trading hats and using some of mine that I had upstairs. Today we read a PDEastman book […]
Mixed Up Monday
> This week we are celebrating Dr. Suess birthday with ” special stuff !” Today was mixed up Monday ! We really had some mixed up wardrobes and hair-do’s. In celebration of ” The Foot Book” the girls got their toes pained. They loved it. We even made them a little mixed up. The boys […]
Friday Flick- Jungle style
> Today was our last day on the jungle unit. We have had a lot of fun exploring animals that live in the jungle . Early this morning we read ” Good Night Gorilla” and afterwards had a special visitor ! A GORILLA!!! His teeth looked a little mean.. so I warned the children ahead […]
Hakuna Matada !
> 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 […]
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Back on Track
> We all seem to be back on schedule today… and that is an awesome thing! We started an experiment today. We put these white carnations in water with food coloring . We talked about how plants outside drink water and discussed how we thought these plants might change colors. It will be interesting to […]
Visitors
> Once a year we have reviewers come in to make sure we are providing a quality learning environment for our children. We usually do fairly well. They are unannounced. We get a 6 week window that they can come in. Not long ago Marcy ( far left ) called and asked could a group […]
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
> Of course, our day started with “porridge. ” We had good ole homemade oatmeal with butter sugar and cinnamon. Of course, we also threw a lot of it in the garbage. The kids didnt really like it. The boys enjoyed sitting on the bear rug today reading. We graphed gummy bears today! I love […]
Bears on boats
> Orrin working on some art . For small group today we played with our counting bears. I had a block and I said, ” This is my boat. I am going to take 4 bears for a boat ride.” I then counted the bears one by one and put them on the boat. I […]
Bears and Birthdays
> Today has been a slow day. Several of our friends are not here . Today we celebrated Martin Luther Kings birthday by talking about friendship and ” getting along.” In our group we do a pretty good job of that but it never hurts revisiting something so important. We also started a unit on […]