Month: November 2023

🥣 Stone Soup Day 2 🥣

Stone Soup. The link is to a version of Stone Soup we have been listening to in class. The class loves the part that says bring what you got and put it in the pot!

Once again the children enjoyed sharing ingredients and making a big pot of soup to share together. A big thanks to Katie Luna for volunteering to make the soup for today.

The children have also been enjoying making stone soup in the dramatic play kitchen of our outdoor classroom. Soup everywhere! 🥣

They have gotten good at chopping fake vegetables and real ones. 😄

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and continue to reflect on all the blessings God has given us!

Sunflower Sensory

As we celebrated Stone Soup Days in the classrooms, we also enjoyed a Sunflower Soup Sensory activity on The Patio with Ms. Kristen.

This is a fun activity that incorporates the practical skills of cooking—mixing ingredients, scooping, pouring, and measuring with all the freedom and creativity children desire. As we play, we’re also sharing space and materials, working together, developing language, learning the parts of the whole (flowers, cranberries, pumpkins, and leaves), recognizing colors, exploring different textures, and strengthening fine motor muscles.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Room 1 Stone Soup Days

Happy Thanksgiving! We are so grateful for each Room 1 family. We pray you have a blessed and wonderful holiday with your love ones. God bless!

“Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.” -Psalm 107:8-9

“STONE SOUP 2023”

The season of being thankful is here and to show our kids what that means we came together to make a “stone soup”. The Stone Soup is a folktale that teaches us that working together is better than doing so alone. A tale about sharing, being caring and kind to the people around us. In class, we did exactly that. Each child brought in a vegetable from home, then we chopped them up and put them in our soup. When it was all done and ready, we sat together and ate.

With the help and guidance from our teachers, we very carefully cut up our vegetables using cutting boards and butter knives.
Some of the vegetables we used included celery, carrots, potatoes and green beans.

Our feast was a great success, so yummy!

We are so thankful for our students, parents and teachers. Happy Thanksgiving!

Stone Soup

“Bring what you got, put it in the pot; we’re making stone soup.” The children have been listening to the tale of stone soup that has sharing and giving as the main themes. This week we are celebrating Thanksgiving by gathering around the table and sharing a big pot of Stone Soup. Thank you to all the parents that helped by providing ingredients. And a big thank you to Sarah Sanders for being our cook for today.

First day of Stone Soup done! We can’t wait to do it again tomorrow!

We tied for first place for our soup!

“FARM DAY”

The farm animals came to visit our school and the kids were very excited. The kids were able to touch the bunnies, turtle, sheep, goats and the lama. To prepare the kids for this event we read books about farms and the jobs the farmer does; and what kinds of animals live in the farm.

We emphasized being “gentle,” and using “two fingers,” when touching the animals.
Yes, the animals do pee and poo.
Our Farm Books

PASADENA FIRE STATION VISIT

The Pasadena Fire, Station 33, came to visit our school. For our class it was a thrilling event. The kids got to learn three important numbers in case of an emergency “911”.

One of the fireman showed us how he gets dressed in his fireman gear. He was fast!
The kids got to touch and feel the big yellow jacket and see the oxygen mask and tank.

The kids learned to not be afraid of the big yellow jacket, boots and mask.

Whoa! We all got a turn to walk inside the fire truck and look at the headphones, big seats and big red boxes.
What an event.
Our favorite fire truck books and songs.

Apple Pumpkin Days

Room 3 ended October with Apple -Pumpkin days! Our harvest parties had yummy cooking activities and crafts. A big shout out to all the parents that helped make the parties a success.

Monday’s cooking activity was Apple Pie in
a cup. The children got to smash the graham crackers and scoop in the filling.
Monday’s art was apple printing and dot painting. It was fun stamping with apples!
Tuesday’s cooking activity was pumpkin pancakes! The children mixed the batter!
Tuesday’s craft was decorating small pumpkins with fun stickers and crowns! There were also extra pumpkins for the classmates that don’t come on Tuesdays!
There were also fun activities in the patio. Pumpkin peg hammering, pumpkin soup, and a Farmer’s Market.
And in the yard the children squeezed their own apple juice.

It was such a blast having all of our parent volunteers come in and celebrate the season with us. Thank you everyone!

Apple Pumpkin Days on the Patio

To celebrate Apple Pumpkin Days we enjoyed some festive, fall activities on the Older Pod Patio with Ms. Kristen!

Our friends in Rooms 1, 2 and 3 dissected a pumpkin at the sensory table and made Pumpkin Seed Soup with the pulp, seeds, water and cinnamon.

We used hammers and golf tees at the Pumpkin Pounding station!

We tasted red, yellow, and green apples; then we graphed our favorite!

The Farmer’s Market dramatic play was very busy. Our friends enjoyed picking apples, stocking the market, and cooking/baking with the produce.

“That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.” Psalm 1:3