What a rainy and crazy, not lazy,day.

Well let’s see, we got to play a little longer today, which might have been a bad idea, but we did it anyway.

We had our circle time and said our pledge of allegiance.
Wow! I am so impressed with the children and how they can say the pledge. Way to go!
We are going over the months of the year and the seasons. What order they all come in.






We talked about Thanksgiving and what we are all thankful for. We wrote them all down. These will come home on our party day. They are too cute!
We then shared who brought what for our food drive. They get to put it up on our table. We are going to have to get a bigger table to display it all on. We have a huge amount of items...YEAH!!! Keep them coming.





We had our “Following Directions” art work…still working with some to get this done and some to get it done right. Our FD work today was our Teepee. Some of the children got the colors in the right places, some got tired of coloring and others just “got busy” and forgot the directions and to look at the picture that we had as the example. But this is an ongoing lesson. We will do these all year. We all have things that we jump ahead of or forget to follow through on. I was helping Dakota, who is 8, with a homework assignment. She could go to a website and answer questions and such. We read the FIRST question and she gave me her answer, I agreed with her answer. She clicked on the answer (it was multiple choice) and it said WRONG! I was shocked. So we went back and re-read the question…and there was a little detail at the end of the question. Which one of these was NOT in the blah blah blah. So, I tend to be a little more forgiving now to the quick paint brushes of young artists. Most of the time they are watching their friends do their work or play instead of watching their own paper. So don’t be too hard on them when the papers are unfinished or a little messy. Just give a gentle reminder to follow directions and listen to the teacher. (That’s what we say…follow directions and listen to your teachers!) It’s all good though. They will get it!






I hope you all got your Tom the turkey pictures. I want you to decorate these and be very creative. Use things that you have in the house, don’t go buy anything! You can use cereal, string, beads, buttons, and noodles… anything but honey. That’s a long story. We will hang these in our room and we love to talk about how they did it. Don’t get mad at me but Please moms and dads – resist the urge to do this for them. We love to see the crazy, messy pictures. We have seen the work that moms and dads have done in the past and they are just not as interesting and fun to talk about. So if you are rushed, don’t be, don't feel pressure. This is suppose to be a quality time and interactive project that you help your child have FUN with.

Also the note came home about our Thanksgiving soup. We will be “cooking” this next Friday for snack. We don’t make the children eat it but we do ask that they try it. We have discovered many like it and ask for more once they try it! Don’t forget to bring in your soup item next week!

We will send home a note about our Thanksgiving Feast next week. It is our Thanksgiving “party”. Everyone will bring in an item for our feast. This will be anything from chicken nuggets to chips, dip, to fruit or veggie’s. Everyone is welcome to join us for this feast. It will be at 11:00 on Friday 21st.

Well it will be all downhill from here until Christmas. WEEEE! Buckle up it is going to be a WILD RIDE!!!