monday

Breakfast: whole grain waffle with cin and sugar, banana, milk

lunch: periogies, organic bberry yogurt, fresh cut pears, milk (all ate very well today, lots of seconds and thirds)

No poops this AM from Paige or Thomas. Tristan pooped in pants during breakfast and didn't do anything in potty, then after lunch he peed in potty but then got up and threw the potty on himself!!! all over his pants (not a good potty day for him!) Hayden had no accidents so far and is doing well! Paige kept sitting on the potty and smiling!

The kids seemed to miss each other so we did a lot of free play today. They were really into puzzles and did that for a half hour. We started our Oct/fall curriculum (will come back to the rainforest one afterward) I want to get in all our fall crafts.

We did the day/month/week, weather (yeah for sun!), we had some major fights over who gets to do weather and day so I'm thinking we might be getting a job chart up soon. (I have one of those!)

We talked about trees and Hayden and Bryce practiced cutting, everyone then pasted 3 trees and leaves on paper. We counted the trees and then looked at a puppy dog with 3 spots.

Next we learned about the colors orange and green and went around the room searching for orange and green items. Alicia, Tristan did well with this (but did find some yellow things he thought were orange)

We sang our songs (will continue to practice from old curriculum)

We did some additional things to get ready for Halloween. I pulled out all my Halloween books and taught the kids my favorite "5 little pumpkins" poem with hand motions (they will have this down my halloween, we will do it every day!) Can you tell I get excited for hoidays!

All played very well today!!! It's amazing to think how far all 6 of them have grown since this time last year!! wow! FYI we started brushing our teeth after both breakfast and lunch (I have plenty of kid toothpaste, but am running very low on the baby gum stuff, if you would like your child to have the gum cleanser without flouride please bring some, if you just want them to have good old water on their brush (most magazines say this is all you need anyway) that's fine too.

Reminder: Check your cubbies for items to take home!