> Today we talked about fruit and vegetables. This year I have a group of kids that LOVE fresh veggies. One day when we were making a list for a shopping trip for snack their first request was cucumbers. Just last night Geneviette was asked what she wanted for dessert and her choice was ice […]
Bread
> Today we continued our exploration into FOOD. I went upstairs to the resource room, which my son Addam is working to organize and found a few materials we can use. Like these potato heads. The kids LOVE this! For small groups today we made Alphabet Soup. The kids stirred the ” soup ” and […]
Food Glorious Food
>I have a feeling my post will lack excitement this week. Though I know teaching healthy eating habits is very important, it isnt as much fun as teaching about Eric Carle books or the circus. Today we met ” Chef Combo ” ( a puppet ) and talked about the meat group. We listed what […]
Candy Highs !
> I took this picture to show you the new unbreakable mirrors I got in for the play areas but as I posted it.. I thought it was a good representation of our day. Can you say sugar high the day after Halloween ? And then… a few pictures from party day! Whew. We made […]
Happy Halloween
>I just arrived at our bed and breakfast in Mountain View , Arkansas for the weekend. We are here for a festival that we come to every year called the ” bean festival.” It is mainly a music festival with tons of blue grass and country music. Randy loves it… thus I tag along. I […]
Today is MY Friday
> Randy and I are going out of town for the weekend, so today is our Friday. Jodie and Devin will be in charge tomorrow. I know they are looking forward to all the Halloween Festivities. I made a few orders last week and had some new things arrive today. Below is our new marker […]
Estimation ….we just dont get it yet
> The halloween fun has already begun… Sharpening fine motor and math skills can be fun ! Gross motor ( large muscles) – tossing a pumpkin in the can. Geneviette and Rosanna built a pet shop. Rosanna is the pet ! 🙂 Emeri holding our pumpkin to try and guess how much it weighed. Estimation […]
The Little Old Lady
> One of the kids favorite books is called ” The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything.” It has lots of predictive text in it . Today we decided to add some props and actions to the story. The pants go wiggle wiggle… The shirt goes shake , shake… The two white […]
Construction !
> Today has been a fun day! I LOVE mondays ! If you are a teacher and want to beat the Monday blues, make that the day you change our your materials. You DO change them out, right ? 🙂 Today we started learning about ” People who build our community. ” I took out […]
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 […]