Short week

We are almost done our short week. Everyone here has been little troopers. No one is feeling great. I hope this cold leaves before next week. We have been enjoying some fall stories about apples and pumpkins. And learned some fun apple songs. We also did a painting with fall colours. The children are loving the train set. I can't get over how long so many of them can play together with it. It is neat to see before and after school how the older children set up the track for the younger ones!

First PA Day!

We had a great morning here! Grace came back to help us! This morning we decorated paper bags to gather leaves in. Then we played a few board games before snack. We walked through the apple orchard (which is our 6 trees in the field behind the house) but we only saw 10 apples. Some of us got wet socks, others were happy to have rubber boots. We saw some frost still on the grass in the shade, and it felt a little cooler there! Then we came in and did some patterning with fall counters while Nancy made lunch.  After lunch we used our leaves and made all kinds of art work!  Then we did our journals and work books, and now everyone is playing quietly waiting for Edison to wake up.  We are going to try sack races and maybe 3 legged races this afternoon!

new routine

We are all getting used to our new routine. I am getting a lot done at nap time! And it is so quiet! We are all enjoying our walks, bike rides and stroller rides to the bus!  I have been answering a lot less questions, but I am singing a lot more. Our favourite song right now is The Wheels on the Bus!   For art, we are still focusing on the process and not so much the product, but we are just beginning to experiment with different mediums. This will continue for many months, and will increase as we stop mouthing everything.

Bike ride

This morning I only had one little one, so I hooked my bike trailer to my bike and everybody had a bike ride to the bus shelter. That was fun! Hope we won't get wet when we all bike back in this afternoon!

Baby Animals

We had fun getting to meet Rolo and Oreo last week. Thanks for sharing your kittens with us AJ! Today was Bronwynn's last day and her buddy, Oden brought in his chicks to show her, and us. We saw them hatching and now they are little chickens. We even let them go free inthe day care!! That was pretty exciting! Thanks Oden and Freya for bringing your chicks!

kittens

We are excited to meet AJ's kittens after school. We are having fun with our new friend, Freya today!

First day of school!

Wow, it is quiet in here! We sent Anthony, Lillian, Tori and Carson to school today.
Bronwynn is having a great time taking care of the babies for me! She keeps reminding me how helpful she is.
AJ and Eddie seem to be looking for Anthony. He often would play with his Lego in the living room, and they keep looking in the door!
I'm excited to hear how everyone's day went, but I'll get busy with these guys first.