Pyjama Day!

Thanks to all for dressing in pyjamas!  100% participation is impressive!

We are sad to say good-bye to Grace.  The children and I really enjoyed having her  with us for the summer!  She even brought us cupcakes for snack this afternoon, and her face paints to paint the children's faces!  What a fun day!

Look what we made...

What fun.... we all worked together and made a fort this morning!

We learned all about musical instruments!!

Sol's dad, Parish, brought in his instruments from around the world, and he told us what they were and showed us how to use them.  After he was finished, he let us use his instruments.  What fun!  Then he left his instruments for the day for us to get more familiar with them.  Check it out....

Thank you so much, Sol and Parish.  We learned so much, and really enjoyed the instruments!!!

Monster Painting!

Grace picked this art for the children to do.  Using a straw and watered down paint, we blew the paint around to make monsters!

                They turned out great!  And no one sucked on the straws - which is also great!

A daycare pool party!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids had a blast swimming in Graces' pool

 

 

                                              Lillian and Allie found a toy pony to ride!

 





                                             The daycare friends helped make homemade ice cream
                                              mmm...........................
                                             

                                              Making our way into the cold pool!!
                                                 BRR...
                                                           

                                               Bronwynn made a big splash coming off the slide!!

                                           Drying off!

                                             We coloured with chalk and made a Hop Scotch.

                                                          Enjoying our homemade ice cream!!!!!!

You will never believe what we found in the sandbox!

There was a small hole in the sandbox this morning, and it reminded me of the story Murmel, Murmel, Murmel by Robert Munsch where a 6 year old girl finds a baby in a hole in her sandbox.  In our story, a 5 year old boy found the hole.   Anthony and I decided to stick a stick into the hole, and it went in for quite a piece, so we started digging.  When I thought that maybe there was nothing in there, Anthony screamed, "AHHH, MOM!"  He had pulled this little creature up out of the hole!  There was another one that we could see, but it quickly disappeared.  Anthony's scream got the attention of the hole gang, so we watched this little guy for a few minutes.  His eyes were still shut, so he is very new.  Then we put him back in the hole, and left him alone.  He quickly moved out of sight too.

 There are always a lot of leaves in our sandbox in the spring.  I'm not sure if mama built this nest or just got lucky and dug down to some old leaves.

 It was a tiny hole at the corner of the sandbox, but this is what Anthony's hole looked like.  The nest is at the bottom off to the right a little bit.

 Sol's Dad was going to bring in some musical instruments today (he had an appointment, so we'll do it next Thursday). We got some of ours out in anticipation. Thanks Noah, Allie, Anthony and Lillian for sharing your instruments with everyone!

                                     Bronwynn and Sol are jamming while the others do art!

Look at these two Mickey Mouse boys!  Wonder if they are the uncles of that rodent we found in the sandbox?!!

Puffy Painting

This afternoon we mixed shaving cream, white glue and food colouring to make this neat paint.  It will dry raised.  It is pretty cool.  Here are pictures of everyone painting....

I tried to get a picture of Anthony's because his paint was the highest.  I hope you enjoy this art when it comes home!