Tuesday, March 31, 2009



she has finished a sunshine colour wheel


playing with the connecting discs this morning...


A little bit of snow is still waiting to melt....


Finally the mud has dried up enough to get our riding toys back out....

Happy spring is here......

Painting Day.....


We painted rainbows today.....

Monday, March 30, 2009

They started the day with some creative play!


Here they are flying to America....


this is a game they call "sleepover", they make beds, and sleep and then get up, then go to bed again....here they are getting ready to go to bed, one is putting on a night cap, the other is putting on a night mask.....

A new art/college tray activity.......kites!

He discovered a new way to use the 3-D shape sorter set.....

Baking Day......





Our egg bread....yumm

Friday, March 27, 2009



the girls having breakfast together this morning....


playing this morning

This is what was in our story basket this week....we told the story of The Beaver and the Turtle....it is a Seneca tale...


This is her absolute favourite snack....she polished off three bowls.....

Handwork Day.....


For handwork today we made Easter Table Gardens.......

Thursday, March 26, 2009



practicing her letters in cornmeal....


Feather work


painting

Soup Day


Cutting our veggies today for Split Pea Soup

Craft today...Beaver Lodges


This was fun, we took some sticks and some mud and tried to fashion beaver lodges.....


Our finished beaver lodges....

The Tree House Gang are all getting over colds so we stayed out of the rain this afternoon.

Finally the kids choose to do some dressing up. For the last couple of weeks all they have choosen was "work" ....this is my little superhero,

Wednesday, March 25, 2009



Drawing on the large wall pad....


New tweezer work...

Our first walk on the road this spring...


When I told the children we were going to go along the road for a walk they eagerly asked for bags to pick up garbage....they are good caretakers of the earth.....



We made these cute paper craft beavers this afternoon.

Arranging coloured feathers...


We didn't get outside today because of the rain so they finished off the day playing with the puppets...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009



Building towers this morning....


Scooping work and colour mixing work.....

Painting Day.....


Our wet-on-wet paintings today.....

Monday, March 23, 2009



Painting early this morning....


Washing the baby....this must be the cleanest doll in Huntsville....


She worked for well over 20mins on this pushpin work, this is quite a challenge for little ones, it takes great concentration.

New wet pouring work, pouring from a pitcher to small glasses.....


Our collage tray this week is making a beaver dam.....

Monday is baking day.....


Today we made Beaver Tails to go along with this weeks learning focus.....here we are mixing up the dough......we ate them for snack, and everyone took some home to share with their families.

Friday, March 20, 2009



Working on his math stair...today I put small shamrocks with this work.......the dog loves to just be near the kids while they work.....

Handwork Day.....


this is one of her first solo sewing projects...she is making a little stuffed shamrock.

Outside this afternoon....


They have uncovered this little wagon. Everyday is like Christmas as the snow melts revealing more and more surprises......


The balls were very popular today....

As they marched off I heard "Let's go on an adventure"....

Thursday, March 19, 2009



Two colour mixing.....yellow and blue make green.


Cutting and glueing work...

Soup Day



Cutting up the vegetables for our lunch, instead of soup we made Irish Stew as it is St. Patrick's week.


As the snow melts all their toys are appearing, they are so excited everyday to see what they can uncover....