Today we talked about storytelling. Storytelling can happen from a book or from our imagination or our memory. At breakfast the littles were already telling stories. It happens so naturally. At one point in the morning Nayomi drew a picture and progressed to tell a story about it. That reminds us that sometimes the illustration […]

We finally carved our pumpkin. In child led programs many times holiday exploration comes AFTER the actual holiday – because that is when they are talking about it and interested. Today we carved and scooped and carved and scooped. We read a book that explained the life cycle of a pumpkin 🎃 Seed Green plant […]

Today I cleaned out the rest of that Halloween bin. Remember the activity sheet books I told you I just couldn’t throw away ? There was also a weekly reader from 2013 👀 We painted the tiny pumpkins and gourds to transition our tables. ( coming home with you in a couple days when they […]

Of course we switched gears today to Thanksgiving. We did the traditional handprint turkey. We talked a lot about thanksgiving and what that means. It led to a lot of discussion about food. So of course the children started producing a lot of foods and serving them to me and each other. If this conversation […]

Today has been a really good day filled with Halloween festivities. We ate a themed breakfast ! We read a story about 5 ghost that were white and ate all white foods. They did until mom left them home alone. Each ghost tried a different food that changed them the color of the food. I […]

Today we continued to look at our bodies and what they can do. Our bodies can dance. Our bodies can move in different ways like in yoga. We also did a storm drill. And a little art.

The children are having so much fun outside finding all the different colors of leaves. We made a fall dessert today and it is amazing. Smash cinnamon rolls on the bottom of a sprayed dish. Spread pumpkin pie filling on top Cover with a box of yellow cake mix Put 1.5 sticks of butter on […]

Today we started exploring body size awareness. Jasmine and Hinslee stood next to each other and we saw how their bodies were different sizes. We read a book that helped us explore the sizes of animals around us We also started a project that will last all week. Two children a day will make life […]

Today we looked at drawings of oranges and thought metaphorically what else it could be. There were different drawings. Some kids totally understood what I meant when I said “ look at this orange. What else could it be ?” Others were like uh … an orange. Like Ms Debbie are you crazy ITS AN […]

We have a few fun days on our calendar. They are a little more “themed” than our regular days. Today is National Apple Day . We tasted red and green apples and graphed which is our favorite. For snack we had yummy warm apple cider and apples with Carmel dip. We also had a surprise […]