Thursday, Sept. 30

It's hard to believe that today is the last day of September already! We had fun going to the library this morning. Mrs. Fogelson read them the story, "The Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves", the kids kept telling her, "Nicci has that book"! Before we went to the library we made a stop at the park. Here are a few pictures:

Breakfast: cereal, banana
Lunch: fish nuggets, french fries, grapes
Snack: peanut butter cookies

Wednesday, Sept. 29

Today we learned the number 1 song & put 1 of many different things on our paper. It's short & very simple to remember... 

Number 1, number 1,
You are long and straight and tall.
Number 1, number 1,
You're always first of all. 


The weather was beautiful outside, the leaves were falling on the kids when we enjoyed our time out this morning. They thought it was so neat that the leaves were falling down on them. 


Tomorrow morning, we will be going to the library. Please leave a car seat for your child. We will return by 11:00 so we are back in time for the bus. 


Breakfast: bagels, banana
Lunch: tacos, apples
Snack: grapes, cheese 

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

 

Today we read the story, "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid Of Anything" We had to read it a few times before the kids caught on to the actions, "clomp clomp" "wiggle wiggle" "shake shake" "clap clap" "nod nod" "boo boo". Then for our art activity today we colored & cut out the pieces so they could create their own scarecrow behind the door that says, "Knock Knock!"

Here's a funny for today: We were eating tator tot hotdish for lunch and one of the kids says, Nicci I ate all my teeter tot hotdish, can I please have some more grapes? I loved it!

Breakfast: waffles, banana

Lunch: tator tot hotdish, grapes, bread

Snack: caramel rolls

Raking those leaves!

Marvelous Monday!

The sun is shining... today has been a great day! This morning most of the kids read books as I brought out some Halloween books over the weekend. It really amazes me as to how many of them could sit and read for hours on end! Which is a great thing!  We did the Very Hungry Caterpillar & the 5 Little Pumpkins for our flannel board story today. Thanks Sandra for letting me borrow the Very Hungry Caterpillar... I will definitely be making a copy of that!

We worked on same & different this morning as well as reviewed our letters A-E and practiced our counting without realizing that's what we were doing (Clap 5 times, 8 jumping jacks, etc...)


Breakfast: cereal, banana
Lunch: meatballs, mashed potatoes, apple, bread
Snack: goldfish crackers


The kids has a blast playing in the sandbox this morning:

Mike reading stories

Here is a quick video of Mike reading Aylah & Peyton a story :-)

LETTER D SONG

Fantastic Friday!

The sun is shining today, what a welcoming site after all the rainy & gloomy past days we've had. This morning we matched leaves together and worked on reviewing A-E. We also enjoyed some cheese balls this morning... we realized that they were both orange & a circle! The kids absolutely loved being outside this morning, you could tell that we had been cooped up for a few days! 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Breakfast: donuts, banana

Lunch: chicken strips, potato wedges, corn

Snack: peanut butter cookies

Rain, Rain... You can Stop... We've Had Enough!

The rain has kept on coming down today, we had a great morning inside! Kept the kids busy, which is always a bonus! We read the book, The Apple Pie Tree, for circle time we made an apple pie. We also reviewed our letters again today and worked a little more on the letter E.We worked on patterning with some candy corn & monster shapes.

Breakfast: cereal, banana
Lunch: pizza sandwiches, grapes, green beans
Snack: puppy chow

Dancing to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" with paper plates! Sure gets all those wiggles & giggles out!

Making colorful candy corn

Creating silly  monsters

Alexis worked on her crawling today!

Rainy Wednesday

Happy Fall Y'all!

We enjoyed being out this morning, but with the forecast and watching the rain fall again the windows, I'm pretty sure we will be enjoying our afternoon inside! We made eagles this morning, they turned out adorable! We also sponge painted leaves, which will need to dry so we will send them home tomorrow. We read the story, The Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves this morning as well as played a game with leaves.
We got out the blow up firehouse this morning when we were outside...

Breakfast: cinnamon rolls, grapes
Lunch: chicken alfredo, lettuce, banana, garlic bread
Snack: blueberry and chocolate chip muffins

Tuesday!

It's Tuesday today! We made eggs this morning with shaving cream & glue. Some of the kids used their hands to spread it out while others wanted a spoon. When we completed that project we made spiders to hang up for our October bulletin board. Some of them are pretty scary looking creatures! We sang our A-D letter songs for Grandma when she came out to read stories this morning.. I think we impressed her. She even got a kick out of Peyton singing right along!

Breakfast: banana bread, grapes

Lunch: lasagna, banana, grapes

Snack: chips & cheese

Weekend Report, 9/20/10

Weekend Report:

Brianna: go on a boat ride with my daddy

Aylah: ride the golf cart

Garrett: help my daddy work

Kendra K: play

Kendra D:

Gavin: my mommy

Madison: my grandma

Peyton: uhh...

Monday, Sept. 20

Alexis' messy face! Not so sure she liked her carrots today!

The kids must have all had busy & exciting weekends as they were all tired today! 

We reviewed our letters A-D today and made a cute little scarecrow. The bigger kids worked on writing their name, while the little ones colored. We enjoyed playing outside this morning, even though the wind was chilly! If you hear any mention about the baby horse, Wanda finally put it in the pen with the other horses. The big horses are still picking on poor Annie (they nip at her back). The kids told the big horses, that they weren't going to get their treat today since they weren't being very nice! 

Breakfast: cereal, banana

Lunch: beef roast, mashed pototoes, corn, bread

Snack: graham crackers & frosting 

Jumping ! 

Friday

Gotta play catch up from Friday! The school kids had off on Friday, so they helped decorate the toy room for Halloween. I'm sure in a month, I will be ready for the decorations to be down! But they had fun and thought that they were doing something important and it also kept them busy figuring out the best spots to put everything.


I kinda chuckled to myself, the little kids and I were reviewing our letters by singing our songs and I almost think the big kids had just as much fun singing the letter songs as the little kids did. I had the big kids each pair up with a little one to help them do stick their dots on their paper...

Breakfast: donuts, grapes
Lunch: corn dogs, french fries, apples
Snack: yummy bars

It feels like fall today!

Burr... it's almost "cold" out there today! We learned the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb and made lambs today as well as worked on the pre-writing skills by tracing the path for the lambs to get to the schools. We also played play-dough which is always fun especially when we haven't done it lately...


Breakfast: cereal, banana
Lunch: grilled cheese, peas, fruit cocktail
Snack: bread sticks, spaghetti sauce

Wednesday's Update!

Oops... Forgot to do yesterday's update! The school kids were home early from CPT so I guess that the whole afternoon was crazy! Since it rained all morning, we kept busy doing projects... Thanks to Brianna for bringing back letter D things!

We worked on those cutting skills... if your child didn't bring their dinosaur home, it's probably because there wasn't one left when they were done cutting!

Brianna's letter D things! 

 

We also worked on patterning with our new fall ones!

Garrett, JJ & Dawson worked hard on this ABC puzzle! 

The school girls wanted to dress Alexis up in doll clothes, so her she is in what they thought was fashion!

Breakfast: peanut butter toast, grapes
Lunch: tacos, pears
Snack: pretzels

Holmberg Orchard

We had a blast today at Holmberg Orchard. This must be one of my favorite field trips to take with the kids. Just being out at the orchard, just makes you love fall! We went on a long hayride (it was too muddy to go to the pumpkin patch) and saw their trees, counted the owls, and got to see the big cooler they store the apples in as well as see how they get washed. But, I'm going to guess that the kid's favorite thing to do was play in the corn boat and in the hay. Here are some pictures!

Breakfast: poptart, banana
Lunch: chili, crackers, grapes
Snack: apples

Fairy Houses...

Monday afternoon I had the kids start building fairy houses. First, we had to take a walk around the farm to come up with some materials.Here they are busily working away....

It's a Monday today!

Eeyore, oh Eeyore come out!

We sang Dr. Jean's Monday song today and it's stuck in my head!

When you're glad it's Monday, stomp your feet. 

When you're glad it's Monday, stomp your feet. 

Let's spell Monday. It's Marvelous Monday. 

M-O-N-D-A-Y.

We also worked on the letter D today and made a Dragon and enjoyed a donut for snack this morning! For some reason, the letter D song isn't as catchy as the other ones. 

The D Song:

("Do Lord")

I've got a great big tummy like a capital D. D!

I've got a great big tummy like a capital D. D!

I've got a great big tummy like a capital D. D!

D! /d/,/d/,/d/, /d/, D!

A circle, a big stick and that's a little D. D!

A circle, a big stick and that's a little D. D!

A circle, a big stick and that's a little D. D!

D! /d/,/d/,/d/, /d/, D!

The weather is beautiful today! I was able to get the rest of the swing set  stained over the weekend and you would have thought that it was brand new... It's amazing when they haven't had a chance to play on/with something for a day or two how nice they can actually play! 

Breakfast: cereal, banana

Lunch: turkey, mashed potatoes, peas, stuffing

Snack: salami, cheese and crackers

REMINDER: We are going to Holmberg Orchard tomorrow morning. We will leave about 8:45 and return around 11. Please remember to leave your child's car seat. Thanks!

Happy Birthday Kylie!

Happy 8th Birthday Miss. Kylie! I had fun looking back at pictures of her thru the years! Why, do they have to grow up so fast? We had brownies for snack today that the big kids deemed we should have them for every birthday...

Miss. Kylie from 2005

"Happy Birthday to you"

She was excited to get money for her birthday!

Rainy Friday, Sept. 8th

Rain, Rain... oh how we would like you to go away! We made a cactus today and were awfully busy playing with our farmers market that we set up. As long as the little kids remember not to "bite" our food we will still have items to sell and purchase!! But, they sure do look nummy & real... 


Breakfast: donuts, banana
Lunch: chicken fries, french fries, frozen peas (favorite!) 
Snack: brownies

 

Here you will see the kids dumping the water from the rain while we went out this morning. Wanda stopped over this afternoon and next thing you know she had 4 kids on her lap and a ton of books to read.

Rainy Thursday!

Good ol' fashion playing!

Rain, rain go away! We want to go out and play! We were stuck inside today... It sure brings light of what this winter will be like! We had many conservations that went like this: "When can we go out and play Nicci", "Sorry guys it's still raining". "Well, it's not raining anymore, its just dripping!"

We kept busy this morning- got out some different toys to play with, watercolored a C with cupcakes, glued cottonballs to a C, practiced writing those C's as well.

Breakfast: cinnamon rolls, grapes
Lunch: pizza tortillas, grapes, green beans
Snack: cinnamon breadsticks

Maddy & Aylah water coloring! 

Letter C/ Cupcakes

Sorry you can't really see, the sun was coming in thru the window!
Thanks Sandra & Madison for the cupcakes!

Wed., Sept. 8th

It's beautiful outside today! This morning, we definitely took advantage of the weather! We worked on those letter C's a little more. We also practiced tracing our names and followed the lines for the mice get to the clocks (practiced those pre-writing skills). We enjoyed cupcakes from Madison today after lunch so we had to put a candle in them and instead of singing Happy Birthday, we sang our C song and then blew out the candle! I will post a video of that later!

Breakfast: french toast, grapes

Lunch: hamburger/rice hotdish, pears, corn

Snack: grilled cheese sandwiches

Off in flight somewhere!

Tuesday, Sept. 7th

It's a short week this week! Yippee! The kids are all wiped out today after their long weekend! We learned the letter C today! Thanks to Madison for bringing in a ton of C things!

Maddy's letter C collection

 

We made a crown today as well as "cookies" and colored the letter C. Grandma also came and read stories this morning.

Getting ready for some flannel board stories

Breakfast: cereal, banana
Lunch: hamburger/noodle hotdish, grapes, lettuce salad
Snack: crackers

Friday, Sept. 3rd

We finally made it to Friday! And it sure feels like fall today! This morning, we learned the poem, "Way up high in the apple tree" and made our apple tree with two big apples!Have a great long weekend everyone! See you on Tuesday! 

Peyton stamping her leaves

Breakfast: donuts, banana
Lunch: fish nuggets, waffle fries, grapes
Snack: m&m bars

Thursday, Sept. 2nd

It's almost Friday! Today, the kids asked if we could "clean", which meant use baby wipes and wipe our toys. Which led to putting away toys in the playroom, we're going with the "less is more" approach in there! Seemed to work good this morning! We switched our toys around too! Oh, how it seems like they are all new again!


We practiced our letter b's again today and the rain put a damper on playing outside this morning, so we came back in and danced to get rid of some extra energy!

Breakfast: pancakes, grapes
Lunch: italian dunkers, watermelon, grapes
Snack: cereal

Here's a picture from yesterday afternoon: