Tues Feb 3rd (healthy food)

Centers for the day:

• grocery store
• kitchen
• measuring table
• literacy table

Mason's favorite area was the cash register. We decided that he was the official shop keeper. Thanks to Sara for bringing money for the kids!

Ray enjoyed shopping, cooking in the kitchen, and using the cash register

Mason was wondering if these spaghetti o's were real...yup, thx to Aunt Kathryn :)

Jack really enjoyed setting up the store. He's quite the organizer.

Even the babies had a great time during centers

Anneclaire measuring noodles in the measuring center

Carsten seeing how many noodles will fit in the measuring cups

Sorry, I didn't take pics after Center Time. Here is the rest of our session:

Our activity: We read An Edible Alphabet and discussed good food: veggies, fruit, our favorites. We then baked some whole wheat bread in the bread maker and ate some grapes for our first snack.

Our activity time continued as we began a science experiment with potatoes and clean/dirty hands. We played hot potato to get one of our potatoes good and dirty. It was a lot of fun. We'll be watching our potatoes over the next month to see what happens when we do or do not wash our hands.

Then we learned a new song (signing time volume 2) about washing our hands...

Oh woah, look at my hands

Look at my hands, they're dirty

Oh woah, look at my hands

Look at my hands they're dir-rty

A little soap and water,

A little soap and water,

Oh woah, look at my hands

Look at my hands they're clean

ASL signs we learned/reviewed today:

• bread
• grapes
• clean
• dirty
• water
• soap

During Circle Time we enjoyed the new calendar days (thx Heather), and read a couple more books about good food: Apples to Oregon & The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen.

For our letter of the day, "U," we sang our phonetics song and then I drew items on the chalk board that begin with the letter "U," and had the boys guess what I was drawing...they even got "underwear!" I liked using the board...a nice change.

We danced and sang, Jonny Brown, as we moved with the scarves.

Outside, the kiddos drew with chalk, hunted for cat poop and pine cones, trudged through the snow (or fell, as was the case with Carsten). Ray wanted us to know that he didn't push Carsten. So funny.

They ate their bread outside with a bit of butter and our only fatality was Anneclaire getting stuck in the garage (so sorry sweety!).

Overall, a great day. A huge thanks to Sara for helping in so many ways...you rock girl! See you all Thursday!