What a great turn out! Our children were so thrilled to see grandmas, grandpas, sisters, abuelitos, abuelitas, Mimas, and nanas coming into their school.  Our children are so blessed to have amazing family members and we are filled with happiness to see everyone come together!

Here are some wonderful moments💕:

God is good❤️. Look at all these beautiful and smiley faces😍

The past few days our children have been bringing various ornaments to put up on our Christmas tree. We all looked forward to the day when we would be able to hang them up. The children got a chance to hang up their very own ornament brought from home. After, we turned off all the classroom lights and watched our tree light up!

All of this was followed up with delicious hot chocolate, cookies and marshmallows😋

Mrs. Silvia, Ms. Pam, Ms. Alex and Ms. Cindy feel so grateful and blessed to have such wonderful parents! Thank you for our birthday party 🎉 It warmed all of our hearts to celebrate our birthday with all of you❤️.

We enjoyed our delicious yogurt and fruit parfaits😋.

THANK YOU ALL!! You guys rock😎!

We all waited for Stone Soup day anxiously! Our children had the chance to pick what vegetable they wanted to share with all of our friends😊. We put our small motor skills into play by washing, chopping, and throwing them in the pot…with the great help of our parents, of course😁! Our children distinguished all the vegetables and got the chance to taste each vegetable individually😋.

After all of our hard work, we enjoyed our delicious soup along with some bread, juice and fruit.

Thank you all for your contributions! Without your help this wouldn’t have been possible🙏🏻. Btw, Room 4 received the Most Delicious Soup Award😉.

Room 4 has been busy exploring a variety of veggies! We have been introducing different kinds of vegetables to ease them in to our Stone Soup day. The children had the privilege of choosing what veggie they wanted to bring in for Stone Soup (you know, they love being in control). We are very excited😜

The children had a chance to taste corn in different forms other than the regular old way of finding it in our soups or rice. We exposed them to corn on the cob, corn fritters, a delicious corn salad, and our biggest hit, POPCORN!🍿

We got to practice our small motor skills and hand-eye coordination to chop some potatoes. Then, we put them in the oven and had some tasty French fries😋

We compared and contrasted fruits and vegetables🤗. We agreed that fruits have seeds and vegetables do not. Our kids were very excited and were good at distinguishing them.

Over the past few weeks we have been reading a story titled Creepy, Crawly Calypso. A lively tale about insects who play a variety of instruments, making calypso music. This book has a companion CD that introduces the children to the sounds of different instruments. Following this, Ms Silvia brought in a Snare Drum and Cymbals for the kiddos to try. Your Little’s loved making music! Take a look….

Music lives inside of everyone.

Class 4 worked on developing music by playing drums and moving.Adding a Cymbal to the snare drum stimulated and motivated their curiosity.The class learned to set up the snare drum on the stand,  how it can change  to  different sounds, how to play soft and loud sounds and to play the snare drum only with drum sticks.

The Pumpkin Patch Parable, by Liz Curtis Higgs, asks “What is it like to be a Christian?” This was one of our themes over the past while and enjoyed exploring this concept with the children. 

Our pumpkin patch (as the children called the loft now) was the highlight of our class. Thank you to all the donated pumpkins, gourds and fall items. Their curiosity, exitment, and inspiration was amazing. This area of play helps the children develop and  strenghthen their large motor skills as they climb up and down the stairs. They also expanded their social skills as they needed to share the space with two other friends. And not to mention, they learned math skills with the assorted kinds of pumpkins.

Yes! our 1st cooking  activity was fun, engaging and educational. It was filled with many opportunities to develop social-emotional, physical, cognitive and language development, as we also “support children develop scientific concepts.”

 children were very excited to learn about the differences and similarities of apples. Through observation, exploration and tasting of all kinds of apples that were brought by all (Gala, Red delicious, Golden delicious and Honey golden), we were able to record the outcome  of your child’s favorite apple.”Some fun and educational ways to introduce math to your child.”

The children heard and read many apple books, stories and songs, such as “Adam and Eve,” from the Book of Genesis, “Up, Up Is Apple Picking Time,” by: Jody Fickes, “Apple Picking Day,“ by: Samantha Brooke, “3 in 1,” by Joanne Marxhausen. Song: “Way UP High In a Tree.”  Apples! APPLES! APPLES!If that wasn’t enough we also painted large apples, decorated apples with stickers,  made star print found inside our apple like the story of The House with No Window, No Door and a Star Inside.

God bless Bryce, Grayson, Jacob and May God bless them and guide their future.

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Today we had our first taste of Fall (I know, I know it’s not official until next week) by making homemade apple crisp! Yum-o! Each of your little darlings took a turn to operate our apple corer, peeler, slicer. Yes! We cored, peeled AND sliced! Then we snapped our spirals into pieces and layer them into a buttered pan. But that’s not all! We topped our crunchies  with brown sugar/cinnamon crumb topping! Oooh la la! We ate this delicious concoction after our lunch. We loved it so much that we will bake it again tomorrow.