January

For the letter Mm we had crackers and peanut butter with m&ms and pretzel stickts to build M

Sorting trix onto Mittens by color.

There were some very creative snowmen made for snacktime!

Playtime!

Red Robin Field Trip

After washing their hands, the children got to look at them under this special light to see how clean they really got their hands.

How clean are they?

Friends from two different classes get to be together at this fieldtrip.

She's telling us "Don't be an Airhead -- wash your hands!"

November/December

For some strange reason, I cannot find any of my November pictures. We did lots of fun activities. They were especially adorable at the program, but at least most of you were able to see them. If anyone has a good group picture from the program and would like to e-mail it to me, I will add it to this post. evematheson@comcast.net

I did promise Emma I would put the stone soup recipe on the blog, so here it is -- 2 months late.

1 lb. ground beef browned
1 onion
1c. chopped carrots
1 can undrained green beans
1 c. chopped potatoes
1 1/2 quarts water
1 can undrained corn
1/2 tsp. basil
1/2 tsp. thyme
1 tsp. salt
2 beef boulion cubes
1 clean stone
Cook together until vegetables are tender.

In December we talked about the five senses and did some fun Christmas activities to go along with them. I don't have a lot of pictures for this either, but I did get a few gingerbread boy pictures.

For our Christmas around the world day, Victoria's mom brought a hot-chocolate type drink from the Phillipines. It looks like everyone loved it.

Ivan's mom came to our class to tell us a traditional folktale from Russia about a little snow girl. She brought puppets that some children could use to help tell the story.

In Sweden they have St. Lucia day where the oldest daughter wears a crown of candles and greenery and passes out St. Lucia buns. Grandma Porter is the oldest daughter in her family.

We had lots of generous parents and our class went home with a lot of loot. They said it was the best Christmas party ever. Thanks for all you do.

October activities

Some playtime pictures

Coloring little pumpkins green and big pumpkins orange.

On pumpkin day we talked about circles and ovals and sorted our pumpkins into circle or ovals.

Grandma Porter is always happy to help our preschoolers.

We made Jack-o-lanterns from circles and ovals.

For snack time we nibbled circles of pumpkin bread into ovals.

Painting our black cat masks. The song goes like this: Black cat, black cat, looking for a witch. All around the night is dark as pitch. You can see because your eyes are green. Black cat, black cat, this is Halloween. Meow!

On cat day we learned about squares and rectangles. We made black cats out of squares and rectancles (with some triangle ears).

Then, we made cats to eat out of graham cracker squares and rectangles.

On triangle day, Tess wore triangles in her hair!

We made spiders out of brownie bites, pretzel sticks, and mini oreos.

Then, we made spider headbands so we could be spiders.

We did the Eensie Weensie Spider, and Little Miss Muffett.

Really, spiders belong outside!

Moms are soooo scared of spiders!

Sorry, this is the only group picture I can find of our T/Th class at Halloween. If anyone has a better group picture you can e-mail it to me and I'll replace it. evematheson@comcast.net

They were so cute! Just a little out of focus!

Our cute M/W class on Halloween!