Friday September 7, 2012

Menu
B~ Puffed Rice with cinnamon, raisins, banana slices, and milk
L~ home baked chicken breast, zucchini, corn and milk
S~ red grapes and flip-side pretzel crackers, filtered water

Painting with water colors this morning

Charli

Phaedra

Lelia (Addison chose to play with her sponge and did not paint)

Lelia, AJ and Charli

"Meatball"

AJ

Busy preparing "food"

Swinging sideways together- on their ponies

Heading in for lunch, Boog got captivated by the puddle on the walk

Of course, she needed to stick her piggies in the warm water

Reading books while lunch is cooking

Charli and AJ

Lelia twirls her dress

Thursday September 6, 2012

Menu
B~ home cooked ooatmeal with cinnamon and raisins, red grapes, milk
L~ grilled cheese sandwiches, corn, milk
S~ bananas and plain or peanut butter crackers

We are getting into our new routine- I am remembering to fix breakfast early, after we eat and clear the table, Alanah and Phaedra brush their teeth, Addison and Lelia use the bathroom and then we make sure everyone has their shoes and jacket as needed, then we load Brendan, Charli and Lelia  up in the triple stroller and get out to the bus by 8:10 Luckily Lelia and Brendan both prefer to buckle themselves, so that let's me focus on Charli- though she will want to buckle herself soon too!  :-) 

I guess it's like riding a bike- it all comes back to you! :-)

No pictures- but we did get outside today to play!! :-)

Breakfast

Addison, Charli, Brendan and Lelia

Charli put the veil on herself and came to me for a photo lol

Brendan's big smile

Charli and AJ

Lelia practices self-help skills while putting on the dress up shoes

Charli is working on upper body strength :-)

She carried this chair back and forth across the room- just because she could!  Love AJ writing in the background

"My castle"

Brendan with the train

AJ with the garage and bard

Lelia posing- we are going to read the pirate abc book now!

Addison with the letters she wrote yesterday

September 5, 2012

Menu
B~ cheerios, bananas and milk
L~ Natural Peanut butter and jelly, red grapes, milk
S~ Watermelon, graham crackers, water

The girls had fun with the parachute today. They played the gingerbread shape matching game, and with the car track.  We read Curious George again, I think young children can really relate to his curiousity and his mistakes! They are always relieved at the happy ending :-)

Twister. Addison and Phaedra sitting on the floor

Lelia joins in

Phaedra going over the rules

The parachute. Alanah, Phaedra and Addison

Lelia and Charli inside

Charli and AJ get a ride

Lelia pulling

Dark picture, but Lelia, Alanah and Phaedra, with Charli and AJ inside

Alanah explaining the next idea

They chose the "go under" game

Charli -she was standing but saw the camera "not another photo" lol

Lelia and the funnel- they are good for sound as well as pouring :-)

Lunch

Alanah decides to write the alphabet

Nice work Alanah!

Tuesday September 4, 2012

Menu
B~oatmeal cooked with apples and raisins, cinnamon apple slice, smoothies with banana and organic strawberry yogurt
L~ macaroni and cheese, corn on the cob, milk
S~ grapes and graham crackers, filtered water

We had a busy morning after going to the bus stop. The children did lots of playing with dress-ups, the firetruck and tunnels plus the dolls and magnatiles are some that come to mind.

We had a parade with all the musical instruments, we all got a turn to lead- including me :-)

We read a stack of books- Curious George, Little Mermaid easy reader, B is for Bulldozer, a non-fiction book on frogs and toads (we looked at the photos),
Hello Baby! and Babies in the Bayou- both about animals

We had circletime, we sang The name of the days song- There are Seven Days in a Week and "Hello to ___, how are you on Tuesday?" After they answer about how they are- so far everyone has answered "good"-- I ask them if there is anything they'd like to tell us.

Boog says "Good" and today she hummed :-)  Brendan doesn't usually like me to sing his name but participates- as long as I don't sing to him LOL  Today he was ok with the singing and told us "rocket" and then how he saw Santa. Addison talked about when she fell down and went bonk, and Lelia talked about Charli :-)

We also did some fingerplay type chants with the alligator puppet and small animals as props, and then another "There were 5 Little bunnies in the bakery shop..." They made me do that one about 5 times LOL
The complete fingerplays are in a link on the right

It was great fun and the morning flew by- rain and all :-)

Alanah with the "jellyfish" in a bottle

Addison with the glitter in a bottle- it is mesmerizing :-)

Phaedra, Charli and Lelia

Charli, Lelia and Brendan with the wood farm

Addison all dressed up and building a garage for her truck- Queens can do anything. I had asked her if she was a Princess and she told me "No, I am the Queen" :-)

Charli and Brendan with the tent he made from the play-mat

Lelia all snuggled up in the hammock

Charli wanted the tunnel, so I opened it up

Addison and Lelia inside the basket ball game- they often prefer to use it as a tent