School Announcements: Thanks to the Murray, Miranda, Sutton-Kenton, and Austin families for bringing sand for our sandbox! Thanks to the Hutlock family and Sarah Justice for donating prescious time on a Saturday to work on the sandbox and swing set! Thank you to Jason Justice for the amazing oil paintings of chickens! Thank you to Gram and Pop for donating $ for our swing set! Thank you to the Ballard family for donating a glider for the infant room! Thank you to the Wynn family for donating a toddler playscape! Thank you to the Davis family for donating cutting boards and paring knives for cooking projects! Thanks to Wacy for donating his big dumptruck! Thanks to mom and dad for donating outdoor trash cans, serving dishes, cutting boards, terra cotta pots and more! Thanks everyone for everything great and small!
We hope that Iris, Matt, Miles, Nina, Spencer, and Saxon had a great first day in kindergarten. We hope that Jordan has a spectacular first day tomorrow! We miss you!
AM Snack: orange slices, water
Lunch: cheese quesadillas on natural tortillas, organic mixed vegetables, organic milk
PM Snack: bananas, Amy's organic bunnies snack crackers, water
Infants: Janie enjoyed singing to Emma and Porter. Emma is crawling everywhere, and Porter loves to laugh. He liked watching Emma eat her yogurt, and tried to grab it!
Toddlers: The toddlers enjoyed a wagon ride to visit the animals. They sang "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", and went on a nature walk collecting pine cones. They received lots of love and caring from Ellen and Jeanne today!
Twos: The class loved their new classroom, with more space and more things to do! This morning they used a big dump truck from Wacy to collect rocks around the farm, which they later painted in their classroom. In the afternoon, they glued eyes onto the rocks and made a "pet rock". They sang the "ABC Song" and looked at letters during Community Time. Thanks to Christin and Jeanne for making today a great one for the children!
PreK: Welcome to our new friend Nixon, and happy 3rd birthday, too! The entire PreK did farm chores together, then headed to our favorite play space, a downed tree, to watch the road construction. We had fun watching a grader and a roller! Before lunch, we filled the sandbox together. In Leslie's half-day class, the children did watercolor painting with blue, played with 3 dimensional shapes, and read a farm story called Book! Book! Book!. We learned each other's name, and guessed the spelling of each classmate's name when it was written on the wipe-off board. In Kari's class, the children enjoyed reading My School's a Zoo. They compared and contrasted the zoo school to our farm school, and thought that was really funny. Both classes further organized and explored their new classrooms. After lunch, the group enjoyed a special birthday snack from Nixon on the front lawn! We had a great day, and the cool sand in the sand box felt great on our hot toes!
