Back to School....

Today we read a book about hands and throughout the book there were painted handprints. Soooo, if you give a kid a book with handprints all over it, chances are he will want to paint his hands......Jackson LOVED how the paint felt...and he loved slamming his hand down on the table with a big splat!Dylan wanted to wear cool sunglasses while painting himself.We had a goodbye party for Connor. Ice cream sundae's. We will miss you so much Connor but I know you will have such fun adventures at your new Preschool and we will be excited to hear all about it when you come visit to pick up your brother!Jackson and Anna were feeding everyone....Dylan and Bryan were riding around on the xylophones....they were giggling up a storm.Korina finds a semi quiet spot to read to Olivia and Quinn....The sensory table is filled with Red, Yellow, and Blue pasta with yellow plastic mice cups....Red, Blue, and Yellow at the Easle.....Gluing Red, Yellow, and Blue objects to make a collage.....There are pastas, shapes, and little buses.

Mixing colors at the light table.....

Boxes.....

When I was on the 'tour of daycare homes', we filled out forms to tell the providers what we liked and disliked. A few of the providers wrote about my house and they told me I should get rid of the boxes I was storing on the porch. NO WAY!!! Kids LOVE boxes and I was fortunate enough to recieve these from one of our families....thank you Debbie! They hide in them, read and play in them, write and paint on them, and flatten them out to use as jumps or bridges for the bikes. At one point there were no kids in the yard. If someone came by the would wonder what was going on........Here they are....hiding in the boxes!!

Lunch time outside today.......

Random Photos.....

Making pie's and what-not....

Riding through the bubbles.....

Cutie pie.....

Bryan is giving Alondra for a ride....He is so gentle and drives nice and slow...He is also always checking to make sure she is okay....

These two hit it off right away.....here they are enjoying a little potato print painting.

Connor started this....but I missed the photo op, so I got Olivia instead. Connor was dressed up like a firefighter with his firefighter hat, vest, gloves, and a small hose. This is the piece that was connected to the hose (we had previously used it for a 'wall marble shoot') So they took off the end of the hose and taped it to their mouths. I sure wish I got Connor dressed to the T, but I wanted to show you this ingenious way to make a firefighters mask.

Bryan, Dylan, and Jackson working on a puzzle together.....

Kelli is practicing writing her alphabet.....

Fathers Day.....

I know it has been awhile since I have posted. Hopefully I can catch up and stay caught up! So a few of these posts will be from awhile back....like Fathers Day.... We chose our own colors and painted our hands on a long strip of white paper....

We let them dry and taped them to Braydens formula containers...thank you Dacia for bringing those in!.....We made cards and added cookies to the colorful containers.

Happy Fathers Day!!!

Salt Trays and Shaving Cream

I took a class many years back called 'Math Their Way'. It was a great class and in that class we made these little boxes...and in them we added salt. 'salt trays'. These are great. They can practice writing, drawing, or just making scribbles...and then shake it and start over. Here Olivia is working on her 'B'.

Jence made a 'C', just by chance. He was so excited that he shook it out and re-did it about 5 times. Guess who now knows how to draw a C?

Who doesn't love shaving cream? I love it because it smells good and cleans the glued and painted table....the kids love it, well, because it's messy. I call it the 'getting things clean mess'. Dylan repeatedly looked back at the table after he was done and said...wow, it sure is a big mess!

Anna is in heaven.....

Friday....

Bunny update....awwww....aren't they cute?? One of them got out and died but the three that are left are as cute as can be!

We got a new tire swing...LOVE it!

I will post a few words about Karina, but here she is reading to the kids. We love her!

This is Lexi's version of the bumblebee.....

Quinn is practicing his spoon skills.....

Making 'Bb' Books....Quinn is working hard at mastering the scissors.....Oh my goodness, if this is not the cutest!...Dylans first day and he fits right in. He is Jacksons new bud....

Bee Week.....

Okay...so I made this bee....We actually have not done this project, but I had an open house this weekend and had to 'pre-do' some things so they could see what we were doing. So this project will be for the older kids, and the following will be for the younger ones....because they just like to squeeze glue...and I let them....

I set out paint and a variety of items to paint with. --3 paintbrushes taped together, dish sponge thingies, cut off nylons with rice in it, make-up brushes, etc....Yellow playdough with black pipe cleaners.....A bigger view of the 'messy' room....The sensory bin has black, yellow, and white rice with 'honey comb'...egg cartons, and lima bean bumble-bees.Tubes and marbles.....we put the marbles up when Alondra comes.... :)Discovery Bottles...Bee theme with the sensory bin rice and some bumblebees from the bee game....They roll these and try to count them. There are 6 all together....This was our discussion on Saturday....Can you tell who said what?.....Flannel board......