Pitter Patter Dayhome

Summer is passing very fast.   We have been having lots of fun outside.  

We have had some fabulous fieldtrips.  -Valley Zoo, WEM Undersea Caverns, WEM Pirate Ship and this friday Jurasic Forest.   Some pictures have been added to the picture gallery.

We have enjoyed the summer reading program at the library. 

The children have been enjoying the strawberries and raspberries right out of the garden.

We planted seeds  for our earth day theme and they have sprouted.  Yeah!!!1

We started some lily pads for our pond theme and they have also sprouted.   Yeah!!!!

Our catterpillers have arrived just in time for our insect theme.  We are watching them eat and get fat and eat and get fatter. 

We had another trip to the Museum.  We made story time and looked at the birds and eggs.  Another fun trip

We planted some seeds to watch grow for Earth Day week.  They have sprouted.

We have also been enjoying the spring weather outside.  We have gone for some walks and to the park and field.

We are all excited for Spring.  We will be starting our Spring theme next week.   We may actually be able to find signs of Spring this year. 

We had fun with our Valentines party and our field trip to the Museum to look at dinosaurs and our special carpenter visit, in February.  We also discovered some cool pets at PJ Pets WEM  at the end of the month.  (Pictures have finally been posted)

Welcome back after the Christmas break.   The weather is beautiful and the ice slippery.   We are waiting patiently for the ice to melt or more snow to fall.   We just finished doing our snow theme (Where is the snow!). We will be moving on to our polar theme and Chinese New Year.   Lots of fun comiing up.

We started  our Christmas Around the World this week.  So far we have been to the far north, Canada, Germany, Poland, Ukaraine, Australia, and New Zealand.  The kids have made advent calendars,christmas pillow cases and christmas spiders.  They have enjoyed gingerbread boys & girls and cheese scones.    They listened to six white boomers and are a little confused about the christmas on the beach picture they saw of Australia (LOL)

We have learned about migration and hibernation.  The PJ hibernation day was lots of fun.  (Today the weather is more for hibernation).   We have also talked about what other animals do in winter.   the rabbit changes its coat from brown to white.  The squirrels store food (we have watched the backyard squirrels carrying little apples across the wires.   We talked about the mice and merlin pouncing on them.    (just playing right).

We went for a walk to the school park today and stopped to look at all the decoration for halloween that are now going up. The kids are very facinated by it all.

We went on a walk to H & W Produce and picked up some corn on the cob, acorn squash, yellow beans, green beans,carrots, cucumbers, tomatos, apples and strawberries.

When we got home the kids husked the corn and we had a lunch of squash, chicken, corn on the cob, beans, cucumbers tomatos and cucumbers.  MMMMMMM

Apple pie is in the oven now.   I bought some more apples to go with the ones A brought from her tree.

We husked corn today.  One three year old informed me that she thought farmers work (husking corn) was way to hard :|.  The other children were fine with the work and one even started eating the corn as soon as he finished husking it.:)