Friend of The Week

Friend Of The Week

In the Kindie class we celebrate our friendships.

We honor each Kindie with a Friendship book.

(It's really hard to wait for your turn!)

The children draw pictures of our special friend

and dictate compliments.

We practice giving praise and kind words.
We practice receiving praise and kind words.

This activity makes us feel really special.

Sometimes, we are speechless because our book is so wonderful!

(Or maybe you have a busted lip 

and  need an icy sponge.)

LOL!

Friend of the Week

is one of our very favorite Kindie Traditions!

Birthday Celebrations

Birthday Celebrations.

We celebrate "real birthdays"

and "un-birthdays" at Gingerbread.

We make a birthday crown and sing to our Kindie.

We love to give pretend birthday spankings.

Some children prefer a hug instead.

We love a reason to celebrate and always look forward

to the yummy snacks.

Hug A Bear

Hug A Bear

Hug A Bear has been making the rounds  

and is looking forward to lots and lots 

of fabulous weekend with the Kindies.

He loves to have sleepovers, play outside,

eat junk food and attend sporting events.

He doesn't mind an occasional bath,

loves bandaids....

and wearing baby clothes.

Sometimes Hug A Bear likes to play with

little brothers or sisters.

He loves to sleep in and binge watch Netflix.

But, HIS VERY FAVORITE THING IS,

HUGS!

We love Hug A Bear!

Hug A Bear Loves us!

We Went to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo.

Zoo Day

We enjoyed a crisp fall day at the zoo.

The animals were out enjoying the cooler temperature!

We loved it!

I think we ate our way through the zoo.

The carousel was super fun.

We may have gotten a little (lot) wet!

But we didn't mind.

Did you know they offer colonics at the Zoo?

Yes, it happened!

(I was busy laughing so I missed getting actual evidence.)

And! 

 That slide, when your clothes are wet, 

is AWESOME!

It will shoot you off like a rocket.

So you need your teachers to catch you!

Otherwise, you might need stitches.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Goodbye beautiful giraffe. 

By the way,

You have a really long neck and we love you.

See you next time!

Fabulous Fall!

It's Fall!

This week was a short week.

We had two days to celebrate the beauty of fall.

Our literacy center featured books about Autumn.

We gathered acorns from a neighbor's yard and added them to our sensory table.

We hit the ACORN JACKPOT!

We found "baby acorns, daddy acorns,  green ones, 

brown ones, rotten ones, acorns with and without tops".  

We found a "billion" acorns.

Aren't they wonderful?

We added acorns to every center in the room!

We graphed, sorted and counted acorns.

We colored and painted pictures of acorns.

The KINDIES LOVE ACORNS!

The Art Center was stocked with a huge variety of fall items.

The Kindies were encouraged to create.

We touched, smelled, listened and shared ideas.

We illustrated our thoughts and dictated words.

We investigated corn.  

We looked through magnifying glasses and picked the kernels off the cob.

Corn went flying.  Teacher Alicia put on her sunglasses!

(It was funny when she did that!)

We set up a harvest stand.

The children shopped and played cooperatively.

We created patterns with fall leaves.

We designed necklaces these wooden slices.

Aren't they amazing?

Whew!  That all happened in two days!

But, wow.  It was a perfect way to celebrate fall.

I almost forgot!

We also had a yummy treat.