Wed

Breakfast: cereal, banana, milk (all ate well)
Lunch: pb and jelly sandwich, fresh peaches, yogurt, milk (Thomas refused to eat the yogurt (kept telling me "no", Landon only ate yogurt, the rest ate very well and got a cookie) Paige didn't drink much again, I think it's because of her stuffy nose.

Excellent morning for all (days like today I feel like I could take a million kiddos!!!) Everyone is happy and playing well!. Hayden (I can't even believe it) had no accidents, and I even kept offering extra to drink just to see how good he has it! He told me every single time he had to go (6 times!!!) he pooped 1 time on the little potty then got brave and sat on the big potty and went again! I asked him if he was done with diapers and he said "yes" he gave me his "angry face" when I put a diaper on him for nap (he might prefer some type of training pant/pull up for naps and bedtime)

Paige loves her new shoes!!! They worked well outside, Hayden refused to put on his play sneakers (he's been complaining they hurt him and are very difficult to put on. It wasn't wet outside so I let him wear his new shoes, you might want to bring another pair over (the velcro carters ones?) if you don't want him to have his new shoes on.

Thomas is a snuggle bug today, and FYI (you probably already know this) his favorite game is for you to lay down and he sits on your head (haha) Oh and he is going to love the beach!!! Today was the first day I let him play in the sandbox. He loved it!!! I wish I had my camera with me but I did take some with my phone (remind me) He didn't even eat (much :-)

Oh and Crystal, you weren't the only one who had to bath your little one first thing this morning. Landon did the same thing as Thomas (I was wondering why he was up at 2:30 in the morning!
School:

We began with our weather watcher Wendy and looked outside and then did the weekly/monthly calendar. Hayden was first to say "cloudy Ashy!"

The kids all held the hands on 3 and traced it with fingers. We then placed the 3 on a card with the #3 on it and counted 3 circles to put on the dots.

We reviewed circles and did our circle page in our journals. The kids made circles on their paper (i of course helped the little ones)

We talked about what friends are (excellent for Bryce because this is what he learned yesterday at school. We thought of ways we can be good friends and I wrote the ideas on thinking feathers and placed them in our friendship bird house. Hayden and Bryce loved putting the feathers in our house!

We discussed the canopy layer in the rainforest and did a cutting (babies ripping) activity with different animals. They then glued the animals in their canopy layer paper. Paige did awesome with the tearing :-) Hayden and Bryce were very excited about their first attempt in cutting (didn't do too bad, Hayden wants to use his left hand though?

We again pretended to be different animals of the rainforest (jaguar, parrots, frogs, monkeys)
We sang our songs (and did 1 new song on kindness) and dancedThe rest of the morning we played outside (very nice and cool)

Note: I have only been really getting finished 2 complete lessons per week so we aren't even half way through the Sept. curriculum. However, I have the October one (which has October things involved like Halloween and pumpkins. So when I return from vacation we are going to actually hope over to the October curriculum (so you will get a new parent newsletter) then after I finish that curriculum (probably will take till end of Nov.) we will come back to our current curriculum (rainforest)

Have a fun/safe trip next week Thomas!!