Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh, what a beautiful day . . . time to get the animals' food ready. . .

Time to feed the hungry cats . . .

Looking for the letters "N", "S", "E", and "W" in the petting farm field (great exercise to run between them!) . . .

Lucy loves breakfast . . .

Abby helps open her gate . . .

The goat brothers spy on us, waiting for their turn . . .

Sheep "buns", to clean up the kids' comments . . .

Come get your food, goaties . . .

A cat in a tree . . .

Gage flashes his winning smile . . .

Emma . . .

Maddy reading . . .

Maya says "cheese", really . . .

Ali at work . . .

Porter between smiles . . .

Griffin does "bubbles" . . .

Cole pours milk . . .

Asa helps himself to salad . . . who says kids don't like spinach?

Waylon didn't want to eat his turkey taco until he got salad . . .

Monday, October 26, 2009

Another rainy day . . . we're seeing water stand around our school property where we've never seen it before! (No jokes about our parking lot!)

We kept ourselves busy with playdough . . .

We dressed up . . .

We pretended a lot . . .

Liam posed for the camera . . .

We played with birdseed . . .

And we painted . . .

We look forward to a sunny day tomorrow! We do miss being outside.

Menu, 10/26-10/30/09

Monday
AM Snack: organic apple slices
Lunch: refried pinto beans w/cheese, homemade guacamole, organic tortilla chips, organic milk
PM Snack: crackers w/strawberry cream cheese

Tuesday
AM Snack: organic raisin bran
Lunch: turkey soft tacos, tossed salad w/ homemade vinaigrette (organic baby spinach, pesticide-free tomatoes), organic milk
PM Snack: organic Zbars

Wednesday
AM Snack: bananas
Lunch: make your own cheese pizza (homemade pizza dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese), buttered organic corn, organic milk
PM Snack: granola bars

Thursday
AM Snack: applesauce
Lunch: Asian sesame (organic) noodles with chicken and organic veggies, organic milk
PM Snack: Colby-Jack and cheddar cheese sticks, pretzels

Friday
AM Snack: yogurt cups
Lunch: ham (nitrite and nitrate free) sandwiches on whole wheat bread, cucumbers and organic carrots with organic hummus, organic milk
PM Snack: organic raisins, veggie straws

Menu, 10/19/09-10/23/09

Weekly Menu (subject to change)

Monday
AM Snack: bananas
Lunch: scrambled eggs, homemade hashbrown potatoes, orange slices, organic milk
PM Snack: organic baby carrots w/ ranch dip, crackers

Tuesday
AM Snack: organic apple wedges
Lunch: organic pasta w/turkey and organic marinara sauce, parmesan cheese, buttered organic corn, organic milk
PM Snack: cheddar cheese cubes, organic raisins

Wednesday
AM Snack: dry cereal
Lunch: wild salmon cakes, mashed potatoes, orangic broccoli, organic milk
PM Snack: dried plums, pretzels and organic tortilla chips

Thursday
AM Snack: wholegrain blueberry waffles
Lunch: homemade chicken potpie with organic mixed vegetables, organic milk
PM Snack: yogurt smoothie, crackers

Friday
AM Snack: fresh pineapple
Lunch: tomato-basil pizza, organic green beans, organic milk
PM Snack: Pirate's Booty, apple juice

Monday and Tuesday, October 12-13, 2009

This week we are talking about woodworking and honesty in PreK, and some of our younger friends are also having experiences related to this topic.

Thank you to the Hanslik family for sharing their prolific basil and some pinenuts with us last week. On Monday, we made fresh pesto--the Twos group watched Janie add the ingredients to the blender, and they had the opportunity to push the blender button!

It has been a very wet week so far, but we did make it outside yesterday to enjoy the tree. We were followed by two social goats.

Ali enjoyed smiling and hiding under her hood!

We noticed that some squash plants have come up voluntarily--we were surprised to already find yellow squash and zucchini.

Yesterday PreK painted "trees" with black and green.

It was fun to have our friend Miles return to school for a day while LISD was closed for students. He liked playing in birdseed with Wacy.

The children enjoyed the pasta with fresh pesto, broccoli, and chicken.

On Tuesday, some of the PreK made a cheese enchilada casserole. They cracked up when asked to say "cheese"!

Each week, Kari draws a surprise picture on the PreK classroom chalkboards that relates to our theme. Today, in Leslie's PreK group this picture spawned a discussion about log cabins, then we built structures with Lincoln Logs.

Cole and Wacy enjoyed "cooking".

There was a torrential downpour today! We watched it from the balcony.

We could feel the heavy rain hitting the roof of our finished play eave!

Today was Sophia's 3rd birthday--we sang to her before lunch and at lunch, too! She brought beautiful cookies to share!