Bus Ride!

As part of our safety and community helpers unit, we got to experience a bus ride!  After we loaded the bus, we got to ride around the Ripley parking lot and the front circle a couple of times.  You should have seen the excitement and smiles on the kids' faces as we drove around!

Special Parents

Nathan's mom (PM Class) came in to talk about Chinese New Year.  We loved hearing about the special traditions that help celebrate this special holiday.  Thank you for our red envelopes!

Mr. Lee (Ms. McGregor's AM class) brought music and songs to the preschool.  We loved watching him play the guitar and ukulele.  It was fun to sing along and play our instruments with you!

Pizza Party

Pizza Party!
THANK YOU to all our amazing families for helping us to read all of the books to earn our party!  Can you believe that the preschool classes read over 2,000 books??!!
THANK YOU to our wonderful parent volunteers who helped out on our special Pizza Day celebration.  The kids were very busy and hard at work completing all of the games and activities thanks to all of you!

Safety & Community Helpers Unit

Safety can be a tough topic to work on with young kids, however, you would be surprised how much they already know!

• We began our focus on signs they see everywhere and basic things ways for us to stay safe.  They love the traffic light games with "stop, go, and slow down".   
• YUM and YUCK and TOUCH and DON'T TOUCH, are big themes for us as well.  These focus on what things are ok to eat or touch vs. things that will hurt us (eating or touching).  
• We talk about fire, stop-drop-roll, how to crawl to get out when there is smoke, learning about meeting spots, fire extinguishers, EXIT signs and how to find them, and calling 911 in an emergency.  Plus, we had to have a whole separate discussion on "what" an emergency actually is.

Community Helpers

• Learning about people who help us everyday within the context of where you would find them and what "tools" they use to do their job.
• We LOVED the career bags that many of you sent in for us!  Your children were so proud to show off the items in the bags that go along with the jobs you do.  What amazed so many of the kids was that there were parents that had the same or similar jobs.

Some favorite highlights of the unit.

• AM class got to go on an EXIT sign hunt around the school.
• PM class got to go on a safety scavenger hunt around the building.
• Making fire truck graham cracker cookies.
• The fire experiment!  We had three lit candles.  One stayed lit while the other 2 had things happen to them.  The second one we squirted water on it to put it out.  The third one we placed a glass container over it.  While the first one kept burning, the one with the glass container over it, lost all the oxygen to keep it lit.  They were fascinated with the experiment and we repeated it several times!

Robots

Mrs. Clement Wong came to our preschool to share some robots with us.  He brought the round Roomba vacuum that ate some Cheerios we threw on the floor.  Another robot was a long skinny one with a brush on the end that is used to clean the debris out of your gutters.  When Mr. Wong took off the brush, the kids got to drive the robot forwards and backwards with a little remote.  The last robot he brought us is one that is used by Armed Forces and Law Enforcement.  This robot can "see" and handle being thrown or dropped, so it is perfect to send into dangerous situations.  It can flip too!  The robot is controlled by a tablet type remote and showed the camera of the robot looking at all of us.  The kids got to drive this robot too.  It can go really fast and many of our kiddos figured out quickly how to change the controls to do just that.  Finally, Mr. Wong activated a "people" type robot at his work.  The robot drove all around his work and his co-workers.

Dinosaur Unit

Our Dinosaurs are now extinct!  We finished up our unit today because of our Read-A-Thon celebration tomorrow.   We had lots of kinds of puzzles and matching dinos to their shadows.  We played a game where we spun a spinner to find out what color dinosaur we had to find to match our colored dot game board.  There were dinosaurs to hang from a tree branch (just like Barrel Full of Monkeys game).  We worked on the letters D for dinosaur, T for T-Rex, and V for Volcano!  We used dinosaur stampers in the playdough and plastic dinosaurs in playdough to compare their footprints, tail prints and other body parts.  The kids loved our wind-up dinosaurs and had a blast playing at the dino table.

There were simple and complex paths to follow with markers.  We worked on putting dinos in the right order to make a number line.  Our colored stegosaurus lost their spikes, so we used colored clothespins to clip on their backs.  Our dinosaurs also needed nests in their eggs, so we used playdough to make the right number of eggs in the nest.  We used pattern blocks to make dinosaur shapes and followed dino pattern strips.  One of the favorite games was colored plastic dinosaur eggs that we had to match the same felt colored egg yolks.  When you matched them, you opened up the egg and put the yolk inside.  A game at the teacher table was rolling a dice and adding baby plastic dinos.  The next day, we filled up the card with dinos and took them away.  We became Paleontologists in the sand table using small scoops, sifters, and brushes to find dinosaur bones and fossils.  We dressed up like dinosaurs with funny dino hats, feet made out of craft foam, and puppets.  There was a lot of roaring and growling going on!  We got to use these great dinosaur hand grabbers to pick up more dino eggs out of their nests (shredded packing paper).

Hiding under the paper below are rubbing plates.  We watched dinosaurs appear as we used crayons to rub on top of the paper.    Kids were loving the dot-to-dot dino pages.  They felt like big kids!  We matched real objects into the "fossil" stones by matching the imprints.  There were dinosaur bones in a big tub to put together to make skeletons.  Did you see our dinosaur bone bracelets come home?  The kids tried very hard to make patterns.  Lacing, dot paints, and sorting dinosaurs mats.  We had a dinosaur lotto game that had different pictures of our dinosaur vocabulary words on it (museum, paleontologist, fossil, jungle, etc.).  We had giant triceratops on the floor with cone horns for ring toss. We called it the Triceratops Toss!

Circle time featured tons of songs, movement games, and activities.  We used giant foot prints for a listening and number concept game, doggy bones to weigh, and dinosaur pictures for descriptive words and opposites.  See the giant dino footprints?  Teachers helped us trace our feet, then we cut the footprints out and taped them to the giant dino prints.  Before we did that, each child estimated how many kid prints would go into the dino print.  We played a sleeping dinosaur game, that when they woke up, they had to do a given movement (jumping, clapping, spinning, etc.).  A fun craft was dino egg paper marbling.  We spread shaving cream on a tray, added food color drops, swirled the color around, pressed a giant egg shape on top of the swirls, and then used a spatula to scrape off the shaving cream.  What was left was a cool print on our egg!  Wait until you see the surprise inside our egg when they come home!

Space Unit

This was a fast unit with our snow day and special robot presentation.  I don't feel like I got to ll of our fun activities, but we enjoyed anyhow! Space is always an "ADVENTURE"!

We built rocket ships by rolling a dice and finding the pieces we needed.  Another rocket game used small blocks, unifix cubes, or caps to make a rocket ship a certain number high.  We had space books to manipulate and felt pieces to create with.  We used our handwriting skills to trace stars and to use tweeers to pick out craft foam stars in black beans.  There were "moon rocks and spaceships" (tin foil balls and plastic grape tomato containers) with tongs and small astronaut puppets.  We had green moon sand also with marbles, more tomato containers and astronaut, rocket ship, and moon buggy plastic figurines.  We used large parquetry blocks to build some rocket ships and colored space ship pictures.  Kids used small finger rockets to shoot the moon.  We used large rockets later in the week (no picutre).

We learned about the solar system and planets.  We played with alien and robot wind up toys.  We used rocket cards to play a color "go fish" type game.  We learned about shadows because it was Groundhog Day and because of the Earth's shadows to get the different phases of the moon.  We used small googly eyes to give the alien cards their eyes.  In shredded paper, we found small plastic planets and made constellations with star erasers and popsicle sticks.  Our turntable made great solar systems with markers and we added sticker planets, stars and astronauts.  Some kids loved making star bead necklaces or use celestial rubber stamps.  We played a space lotto game that had all kinds of space words and concepts on it.

We blasted through space using our gameboard as we moved around the planets.  We used space tinker toys to build all kinds of structures.  We also matched the phases of the moon with cards.  In circle time, we had a great time making craters in the moon with a tub of flour and small wooden balls.  The "poof" of the flour all over our rug was a hit!  We sang "oodles" of blast off songs, astronauts visiting things in space, and of planet songs.  We had star fingerplays and lots of other rhymes.  We played alien tic-tac-toe with alien and spacemen pieces.  We learned about things that give us light and how the earth spins and moves to make summer and winter, day and night and the hit of Mrs. Bailey's group was playing a rocket ship alien hide and seek game.  At least once a day, we danced and moved to Laurie Berkner's Rocket Ship Run and the Wiggles Walking on the Moon.  I believe those will be the most memorable songs of the unit!

Winter Unit

Winter is such a HUGE unit!  We learn about the season of winter in general - how it feels and what it looks like.  We also talk about all of the things you can do in winter and what clothing you need to wear.  Then you get into winter animals, footprints, and animals that hibernate or migrate!

Roll and count snowmen, counting snowflakes on mittens and matching them with the numbers, and making snowballs with white playdough to make 10, and building snowmen with number strips.  We matched colored buttons to snowmen, used a special snowflake hole punch, made snowmen shape patterns, and cut out lots of snowballs!  We put together a mitten puzzle, used a salt tray to practice our "handwriting", used tweezers to sort small winter erasers, and played in the rice table filled with snowflakes and lima bean penguins.

We sorted little mittens into "left and right" by matching the thumb to the big mitten shape, practiced more handwriting sheets, and went ice fishing to catch colored paper fish.  We played a penguin and colored egg memory game, matched chilly letters, and counted lots of buttons to give to our snowmen.  Mrs. Bailey read Froggy Gets Dressed, and we helped our paper Froggy get dressed to play in the snow.  We used q-tips to make snowy shapes and used pattern blocks to make snowmen.  Oh what fun the kids had making snowman cup towers!  We used cotton balls for snowballs and played a number game.  We also played a roll a snowman game where you roll the dice and see what body part you need to add to your snowman drawing.

Do you want to build a snowman?  We did on the big rug.  We finally had some nice white fluffy stuff fall from the sky so we could use colored water to make snow designs and put colored ice cubes in.  We traced the snowflake paths from top to bottom and cut from bottom to top!  Another hit was building marshmallow structures!  We made scarf patterns with colored popsicle sticks and played a letter game with mini marshmallows.  There were a few color matching games, sparkly winter slime, and the traditional game of "Don't Break the Ice".

Our penguins came in many shapes that we matched and we fed our penguin some fishy crackers.  A big hit of the week was our snow sticky wall.  We used qtips, cotton balls, white tissue paper, and tiny styrofoam balls.  We tried a science experiment with ice cubes, ice and string.  The challenge was to see if you could lift the ice cube with the string.  We could not get it to work very well this year, but you are supposed to sprinkle some salt on the ice, let it melt for a minute and then place the string on the melting part.  After a couple of minutes, the string has re-frozen onto the ice cube and you can lift it up.  Well, ours did not work this year, but we had fun trying!  Styrofoam balls made great potato heads and we made silly snowmen puzzles.  Our penguins got some colored goldfish during our count and sort game.  We build winter animal words and matched bear paws with different textured materials.  More matching penguin games and counting cotton ball snowflakes for our snowmen.  We made a most GIANT disaster with our shoveling activity!  Mrs. D used cotton batting as "snow" and the kids used kid-sized shovels to shovel up the "snow".  Well it worked wonderfully, but afterwards, the rug looked like a blizzard!  The vacuum cleaner took care of that mess!

Gym was a blast these couple of weeks.  We used our platform catapults to launch sock snowballs into the air.  I bet you can see what fun we had with that one!  I could not find a photo with no kid faces in it, but we had giant snowball fights with the sock snowballs.  At one point, they all ganged up on Mrs. D and pelted her with the snowballs and then the PM class had Mrs. Hill on the floor getting her!  White balloons were a hit, but the gym was super dry and we had more balloons pop then fly.  We also went ice skating wearing our paper plate skates.  There is also a fun song called "Listen and Move" that you "listen" to the rhythm to determine what movement you will do, such as hopping was a boinging rhythm, galloping sounded like horse trotting, etc.  There was skating, running, and walking too.

During Language Group, Mrs. Bailey played a syllable game to help get the kids up and down the sledding mountain, pulled out all kinds of winter clothing from her special bag, and read us "Froggy Gets Dressed".  With Mrs. D, a few things we did was act like walrus with "sock" flippers as we tried to catch some fish, played Bear In the Chair (similar to musical chairs), and sang lots of snow and snowmen songs.  We loved playing Freeze to a song that when the music stops, you FREEZE!  I forgot to add pictures, but we had a great time learning how to walk like penguins with a soft squishy ball between our legs (that caused a lot of laughter) and using the same soft ball to play "kick the snowball" around the circle area.  The object was not to let the snowball out of our circle!  With the cold and snowy weather, we also did some Cosmic Kids yoga stories of Pedro the Penguin and Joybob the Polar Bear.  The kids love watching and moving with Jamie for our BrainPop time of the day when we can't get outdoors.

Another favorite activity was our "pretend snow".  It is called InstaSnow and it is a similar polymer that is inside a baby diaper.  When you add water to the tiny flakes of powder, a snowstorm explodes up and out of the cup.  The kids are always amazed and we do this over and over and over again.  Afterwards, we add play toys and away they go with lots of filling, dumping, measuring, and just having a ball.

Bubble Program!

BUBBLES!  BUBBLES!  BUBBLES!

Miss Barbara Stella from the Acton Discovery Museum's Traveling Science outreach program came to visit us yesterday.  She brought us bubbles galore and we had a wonderful time being bubble scientists as we watched bubbles, played in bubble solution, blew bubbles, and explored bubbles.

Miss Stella first talked about the shape of bubbles, "spheres".  No matter what shaped bubble wand she used, all bubbles turn into spheres!  We learned that bubbles do best when it is moist, so she sprayed her spray bottle here and there to "wet" the air, so we could get the biggest and best bubbles.
She poked bubbles with a dry stick and it popped.  When she wet the stick, the bubble would not pop.

We also saw trampoline bubbles bounce up and down, that were made with a large home-made foam tube bubble wand.  After Miss Stella showed us bubbles galore, we got to play!  We had dishes (yes, you are seeing correctly - dog dishes) with oodles of wands and cookie cutters to make bubbles.  There was also a bubble window where a teacher got to pull up a plastic pipe with wire on the sides to make a bubble wall/window.  With dry hands or fingers, the bubble window popped.  With wet hands, we could put our hands in and out of the window.  VERY COOL!  We also blew into the bubble window to make LONG bubbles.  So much fun!  We did not get any "no kid faces photos" of the kids using their "air" to keep the bubbles up in the air.  They used their own mouths to blow, giant straws, and paper funnels.

Even Mrs. Hill and Mrs. D got into the fun too!  Mrs. D showed off how she uses her hands only to blow bubbles.  Some kids got the hang of the no wand method too!  We also blew up a bubble in a jar and put the top on it to keep the air out.  The bubble lasted many minutes without popping.  As soon as we opened the lid, the bubble popped!

A fun day had by all!

Germs & Washing Hands

Have you ever sung Happy Birthday to germs?  We did!  Mrs. King, our school nurse, came into both AM & PM classes (on different days), to do a hand washing lesson.  First Mrs. King showed us a germy hand picture and we talked about what germs are and how they can make you sick.  Then we figured out ways to get rid of those icky germs...by washing our hands!!  We played a little game where the different steps of washing our hands gets rid of more and more germs, until our hands are clean!  We then got to use "pretend germ" lotion to practice washing our hands.  Since we can't see the germs, Mrs. King used a special black light to show us how dirty our hands can get (the lotion).  See all the white stuff on our hands?? YUCK!!  We then practiced washing our hands.  You need water, soap, scrubbing, rinsing and drying to get rid of those pesky things!  While we scrubbed our hands, we sang Happy Birthday to the Germs two times to make sure we did it long enough.  Then we checked out our hands again and VOILA! most of our germs were washed away!  No more white spots on our hands.

Each child got a hand washing sticker, a certificate for doing a great job, and the hand washing card to bring home.  We hope you put the card in your bathroom to help children learn how to wash their hands better and hopefully stay healthier!

Thank you Mrs. King!

Colors & Shapes Unit

This unit is crazy busy!  There are just so many ways to play with colors and shapes!  We had a blast!

There are also tons of fun books to read too such as, Press Here, Little Blue and Little Yellow, Mouse Paint, White Rabbit's Color Book, The Crayon Box that Talked, Bear in the Square, Perfect Square, etc.  We never got to one of my favorites, Harold and the Purple Crayon.  Check it out in the library sometime and draw purple pictures!  The Ten Black Dots book that we made as a class book should be making it's way around to all of you soon.

Kids got to use lots of colored dot stickers to cover up numbers.  Each number had a certain color to use.  We stacked circle blocks, used shape stampers, hooked together shape dominoes, and used shape blocks in colored rice.  We played color drop with pom poms.  You sorted the pom poms into their colored tube and they fell right back into the bucket to be sorted all over again.  Some kids were very intrigued by how they came out the bottom of the tube!  We had red water beads to play in - always a hit!  Small plastic caps filled up our numbered gumball machines and we played a roll the dice gumball game.  The younger kids used only the colored dice to find out what color paint dot to use to make a "gumball" in their machine.  The older kids rolled two dice, a colored dice and a numbered dice.  They had to add the correct number of a given colored gumball to their machines.  The sorting tray was a hit with some kids, others preferred making crayon puzzles or creating "things" with colored shaped blocks.

Our smiling shapes just begged to be clipped with clothespins.  There were tons of shapes of all sizes and colors to put in their right places.  We played sorting games with shapes onto magnetic trays.  Kids sorted popsicle sticks by color and some even matched the letters to spell the color names.  Big shapes were taped to our table and we used different blocks and manipulatives to make the shapes.  We played color and shape Bingo with Miss Smokler.  Light Brite (the one pictured is ancient and was mine as a child) is always so magical to kids when they see the colored pegs light up after they push them into the black paper.  Shapes galore to sort and trace!  Colored moon sand and pom pom cupcake trays!

Color monsters love to munch their favorite colored items.  Mrs. D added google eyes and a pom pom nose to colored chip clips to make the monsters!  We used wikki stix (wax coated string that is very flexible) to follow shape outlines.  Our crayon boxes were drying to be filled and kids laced up shape items.  We used shape puzzles, sorting paint popsicle sticks, and matching color blocks.  Rainbows have all the colors, except ours, which was missing purple!  I heard it from them all!  We used magnetic dots to fill in the color spaces.  Once of Mrs. D's favorite games is the colored popsicle stick matching activity.  We used sticky paper on top of the cards so the sticks don't run away on us!  Pom pom sorting tub is also a favorite, as they all love to stuff the pom poms in the colored holes.

Shape Monsters are hanging in our room. Mrs. Hill and I adore them and don't want to give them up!  The kids use shapes of all kinds, sizes, and colors to make monster people.  They are so adorable!!!!  Spin art is so magical.  The kids can't believe that squirting paint onto a spinning piece of paper makes such beautiful artwork.  That is why they had to make 3 different ones.  They would make these for days if we could.  We made colored rings by putting beads onto paper ring clips.  The light table is fascinating.  They love stacking different colored tiles and things on one another to see new colors.  We place mirror stands on the light board and the magic doubles!  Colorama is a quick, fun game.  The water table was filled with craft foam colored dots to go along with our story, Press Here.  The sensory table was a soft pom pom delight.  There were pom poms of all sizes, colors and textures to scoop, drop, etc.  We played two kinds of matching paintbrushes games.

Ohh!!  Science experiments!!  The kids were in their glory with these activities!  We watched colored ice cubes melt to make single colors and mixed new colors.  They were surprised at how quickly they melted.  The Milk Experiment - We poured and inch or so of milk into a dish tub and added food coloring drops with eye droppers.  Then we dipped q-tips into dish soap.  When we touched the q-tips to the colors, they exploded!  We then placed a piece of water color paper onto the exploded colors to make milk prints.  Confession...the prints usually come out a bit better.  Not sure what was different this year.  It is still the process...not the product that counts!  Fizzy Colors - Kids are given their own tray filled with a layer of baking soda.  They then get the 3 primary colors of colored vinegar.  The kids used eye droppers (AM used these cool zig-zag droppers) to drop colored vinegar onto the baking soda.  Voila!  You get a fizzy reaction and the baking soda begins to turn into beautiful colors and designs.  Both classes played with these trays for well over 45 minutes!

During Circle Time and Language Group, we played tons of shape and color games and sang a lot of songs.  The shape train left the circle time rug station as each child had to present their shape ticket to come aboard!  We went around the room toot-tooting and chugging.  Mrs. D even used a wooden train whistle.  Mrs. Bailey made colored soup with the AM kids.  Maddy, cousin to Mary Had a Little Lamb made an appearance.  Her sheep are not white, like her cousin Mary, her sheep are colored!  They rolled in laughter each time a new colored sheep came out of the bucket.  More gumball fun with a giant gumball machine and paper gumballs.  Kids had to trade in coins to get gumballs for the machine.  Little White Rabbit showed us how she changed colors by dipping herself into colored paint cups.  She showered each time until she ran out of water and decided to stay a nice color of brown.  Mrs. D had a magic color box.  We learned that our eyes need light to see colors.  No light, no colors!

We stole one day away from our Colors and Shapes Unit to have a Pajama Party!  We did this the day before Winter Vacation.  We made pancakes to eat for snack and got to watch a Dora Nursery Rhyme video.

Nursery Rhymes Unit

Nursery Rhymes are always a hit in preschool.  Many of the children are familiar with at least a few rhymes and most children love all of the acting out and role playing we do!

Below you will see many Humpty Dumpty activities.  We had several kinds of puzzles to "put Humpty together again" and a math band-aid game to help with the eggshell cracks.  We got to match Humpty "belly" shapes and try to help Humpty across the wall with a magnetic wand without letting him fall off the wall!  Each kiddo got to try on the giant egg costume and sit on a paper block wall.  We had some real lively actors who dramatically "fell" off our wall!  Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is always a hit and one most kids know well.  Mrs. Bailey has stars of different colors and textures to play with during Language Group.  Mrs. D played a star memory game and then we looked to the star on the ceiling.  We laid on our backs, darkened the room (as best we could!), and then Mrs. D used a flashlight on the ceiling.  We followed the star with our fingers and it even tickled our bellies!  We also learned about Little Jack Horner and his pies.  Our feet got naked as we learned the This Little Piggy rhyme with our bare piggy toes!

Little Miss Muffet, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, and Little Bo Peep came next!  We matched spider color and shapes to their web homes, found matching numbers on stools, and helped the spider climb up the water spout using colors and shapes.  We had spiders GALORE in our water table.  We "washed the spiders out" with a home-made funnel (made out of the top of a soda bottle and a small PVC pipe).  The kids loved piling the spiders on top of the floating dishtub, and then washing them off with the gush of water!  We practiced our handwriting by tracing spider webs (older kids) and spider lines (younger).  There was a Spider In, Spider Out game that can drive you crazy!  We spin the spinner to find out if we put a spider in the box of our game card, or take a spider out.  As you might have figured out, spiders were quickly flying in and out!  Sheep needed finding in a tub full of cotton balls, and then sorted by big and little.  We also helped the black sheep find their wool and played a number game to give our sheep some wool (cotton balls).

We acted out Little Miss Muffet over and over, as kids loved taking turns wearing the spider hat and pretending to eat the curds and whey.  Their favorite part?  Running away from the spider, screaming, of course!

Oops!  Another sheep game!  We filled our "three bags full" (actually 5 at a time), with the right number of cotton balls.  Jack Be Nimble would have been proud of our little preschool friends as kids  sorted the candle sticks from biggest to smallest.  They had great fun acting out Jack Be Nimble as they jumped over a real candlestick.  We then got a bit silly as we "walked around the candlestick, stood under it, jumped next to it" and so forth.  "Doggy, Doggie, Where's Your Bone?" at circle time was a hit.  We played this game to go along with Old Mother Hubbard.  One child was the dog who closed their eyes, while another child hid the coveted rubber doggy bone.  The "dog" got to guess three friends to see who was hiding their bone.  Below kids used tweezers to feed a dog small little white bones, they weighed real small and large doogie bones to see which ones were heavier or lighter, and they got to help the doggie get to his bone using a magnet.  Jack and Jill  made their appearance as well.  It is a good thing that we did not use real water in our bucket!  The kids did a wonderful job falling!  With some gentle guidelines, no one "broke their crown".  Hot Cross Buns were all the rage as the kids made playdough buns (Yes, they were green!!  I forgot to make brown playdough!!) and then put X crosses on them with pipe cleaners.  They traded their buns with real pennies!  Luckily, no one decided to take a bite!  We used the same green dough to make patty cakes with letters on them for Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man.  We helped the mouse run up the clock (another magnet trick) after we sang, Hickory, Dickory, Dock about a 1000 times!  We also used a drum to beat out the "clock chime" during circle time.  Kids counted along with the drum beat to count the chimes.  Old King Cole, Merry, Merry Quite Contrary,  and The Little Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe were featured as well.

There were so many other activities that we could not show as we forgot to get "no face" pictures!  One favorite was making the Queen of Hearts tarts for our cooking project.  We rolled out bread dough, patted it into a muffin tin, and then put a dollop of strawberry jelly inside.  We baked them up and the kids gobbled them down.  The knave never got a chance to steal any!

Did you like the Little Boy Blue paper tube horns that came home?  I'm soooooo sorry for the noise!

We also made rain paintings for It's Raining, It's Pouring.  We also sent home their Jack and the Beanstalk plants (They were really pea plants, I couldn't find my green bean seeds!)  Mrs. Bailey had fun with the kids huffing and puffing, to blow the Three Little Pig houses down too!