Tuesday Thursday Trip to Heritage Farm

I wanted to include some of the pictures I had taken at Heritage Farms in case you were not able to accompany your child on the trip. We had a great time at the petting zoo, wagon rides and the barn activities that we took part in.

                                                     Cooper and Susie the silky chicken.

                                                       Penny petting Ruby the bunny.

                                                           Mathias petting a bunny.

                                                 Penny pumping water in the bucket.

                                                             Elliott churning butter.

                                                            Elliott by the washboard.

                                                      Learning about farm chores.

                                                             Sitting in the old house.

                                            The llama trying to give Sunee's papaw a kiss. :)

                                                    Checking out the old country store.

                                                              Mathias on the porch.

                                                             Sunee on the playground.

                                                              Elliott on the playground.

                                                                Elliott petting the turtle.

     

                                                            Sunee watching the goats.

                                                           Checking out the feathers.

                                                                Milking the cow.

                                                              Elliott pumping water.

                                                             Sunee milking the cow.

                                                     Elliott and Cooper sitting in the house.

Letter F Week

Letter F week was a super Fun Week. We had a trip to Heritage Farms, started our new units: Nature ( Tues. Thurs. classes ) and Pumpkins & Apples (M-W-F), and also started new Bible Stories: Creation Day 3 ( Tues Thurs.) and Balaam and the Talking Donkey (M-W-F).

                                Our Story Stretcher This Week: Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm
             Our barn and animals got really clean just like Mrs. Wishy Washy's Animals in the story.

                                 We worked on eye hand co-ordination with raking leaves into a pile.

                   We had a great activity during circle time with " The Old Lady that Swallowed a Fly"
                                                They loved to feed the animals to our "old lady".

                                                         We sorted flowers by their colors.

                 We also finished our " Cowboy Cookbooks" Thank you to all the parents that participated!

                               Reminder: No school on Monday. Picture Day is Thursday and Friday!

Letter E Week was "Egg-cellent"

Letter E Week was a very Exciting Week even though we had several friends out sick. We are so glad that everyone is feeling better and back on schedule.

                                                  We made Elephants using recycled Cd's.

We made " mosaic" Elmer elephants.They looked so pretty on the window. If you haven't read the Elmer book you'll have to. The kids loved it at story time. That was our " story stretcher" for the week!

                  We did an eggcellent experiment. We placed 2 eggs in vinegar in a tightly sealed container.

Then we left them there for 2 days. Here was our conclusion!
2 Hours: Noticed Bubbles covered the shells.
1 day: Shell was dissolved and the egg was translucent.
2 days: Egg was rubbery on the outside but we soon realized the egg was still raw on the inside.

                     
                             We also practiced our cutting, gluing and figuring out what started with letter E.

We finished up our western unit with armadillo's. The spaghetti noodles were to explain how it's shell was very hard. We glued them onto the armadillo's shell.

They also loved the sensory play with " Ivory Clouds". It's just an ivory bar of soap that has been heated in the microwave. It makes it very fluffy and a great texture to play with.

Finally we made Earth paintings with shaving cream paint to give it texture. We swirled blue and green to make our earth. We talked about how the blue is the waters and the green is the land.

                                             Heritage Farms trips on Thursday and Friday.

Letter D Week

This week seems to have zoomed right by. We have been so busy. This week we introduced Letter D. We also continued learning about Western Theme/ Pockets Theme. We are still working on Creation Day 2 and Noah's Ark.
We also had Doughnuts with Daddy and I think everyone enjoyed that.

                                                      Our " Western Cowboy" Crew

                                      We lasso (yarn looped into a lasso) painted our cows.

                                            We made our own "Dinosaur Soap" for letter D.

      We had our first visit to the computer lab. We searched for dinosaurs and played Dinosaur Train learning games on PBS. We also watched Doc McStuffins on Disney, since it started with letter D. 

We read " I Ain't Gonna Paint No More". First we took off our socks and shoes, got out the paint brushes and " pretend painted" ourselves just like the little boy in the book.

Then we painted ourselves, mostly just feet but some painted their arms and legs. Then we made ghosts out of our footprints. Check out the upcoming bulletin board to see if you can spot your little ones tootsies.

                                                     Doughnuts with Daddy Story Time.

                                         It was another GREAT week!!!! Letter E next week!