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: