Down on the Farm

What a fun field trip we had! Nice weather, good tour, and great kids! Our tour guide was Cliff, and he did a great job with the kids and got them involved and showed them some interesting things. Of course the highlights were feeding the ducks and the tractor ride. Got some pictures:

How cute is this little duckling??
Talking about milking cows (afternoon)

Tractor ride (afternoon)

Blacksmith (afternoon)

Feeding ducks (afternoon)

The Blacksmith (this demo was new to me)

The cows (morning)

Just getting started (morning)

The tractor ride (morning)

Forgot blogger puts my pics on backwards, so afternoon got put first.

Easter Party

What we were going for with the cupcakes were little baskets with eggs. They didn't all turn out the same, but that's just fine. We wouldn't want to hinder creativity...

Experiments

This week our theme was "5 senses." This is a lot of fun, because even though we don't do a lot of projects, we did some experiments with the different senses. We discussed that the senses were a way to find out about the world around them. One day, they used their sense of touch to try to figure out what an item was. Another day, they used their sense of smell. Another day, they used their sense of taste (even though I had to really reassure them that it would not be anything gross-I guess some of them didn't like the smell of onion!). We also used our sense of sight to play "red light, green light." And we explored with popcorn-using all 5 senses. Fun week!
(And now that we finished with letters, we will start numbers).

I wish...

We have been learning about Fairy Tales (which hopefully you have been hearing about). We really focus on the different parts: starting with "Once upon a time," ending with a "happily ever after" and having some sort of magic/fantasy in the middle. I try to find some lesser known tales, so we can expand their knowledge beyond the well known. For example we read "Puss in Boots" today. And last week the "Fisherman & his Wife." The topic today was making and granting wishes. This was fun and following our discussion we drew pictures. Look for those! Discuss other wishes they would make. (Most kids had more than one idea). Tomorrow we will be making an illustrating our own original tale. This should be interesting...

Candy Factory Tour

We had the Sweet's Candy Factory tour today. Great fun-how can you go wrong with a place that makes uses 150 thousand pounds of sugar each week? Here we are posing in our "Candy Maker" hats. Thanks guys, that was fun!

PS There was a parent this morning that asked about some sort of spiced gum drop or jelly bean or something and the lady at the desk said that they didn't make them this year, but then when I was back for the afternoon, she had found a box. If I had known who I asked, I would have gotten it for you, or at least called, but I didn't know-sorry!

Love to all!

Happy Valentine's Day! What fun that it fell on a school day and we could have our little party today. We did our yummy cupcakes, and our card exchange and played some games. And times flies when you are having fun-so much so that Miss Emily forgot to take any pictures of the afternoon group. Sorry guys!