They played this game for 1.5 hours this morning, and would have kept playing if I hadn't stopped them for snack. There is an elf hiding in the sleigh.

Boys, diggers and dirt....a winning combination

Baking Day

Making St. Lucia bread

Making menus to play restaurant....

Enjoying dinner at the restaurant

Friday November 27th 2009

Tiger with his basket of gnomes....

Handwork today.....

Cutting out the doves....

punching the holes...

Learning to tie knots...

Peace Dove Mobiles to mark the beginning of Advent!

The Knights of Tree House

Finally a day when it wasn't raining too heavily during outside time....

Everyone playing blocks this morning.....

Playing cars...complete with the "brmmm, brmmm" sound

Between showers today we went on a nature walk...

Two of the sweetest little girls....

Playing, painting and pals...

Busy little hands....

Playdoh gingerbread men...

Christmas paint stencils

Retelling Goldilocks and the Three Bears.....

Painting Day!!!

They found another use for the basket of stones...it makes great money. Today they set up a store...hats were two rocks, shirts were three rocks

Dress-up this morning...

Baking day.....

Working with our bread dough today....

Soups ready!....

Practicing her letters in the sandtray...

doing the stacking rings....

Music class today.....

Making chicken noodle soup for our lunch....

Jake and Tiger get along really well....

Checking the gas....

Pirates at sea....Little Man was watching for sharks...

The pirates made landfall and hit the road...

Working on coffee bears...

Learning to use glue....

Writing his name....

Look how much you have grown little Bean....Happy Birthday my big 4yr old, Mama Sharon loves YOU

Rhyming basket work...

Princess dumped all the books out of the basket then climbed in...Tiger thought that looked like a great idea, tossed in a sippy cup and climbed in too, Princess was not to happy about the extra passenger.

"You're a witch and I'm a mermaid and I'm visiting you in your gingerbread house"

The witch was making soup....

Painting Day

Today we painted bears in the woods....the girls decided their bears looked more like walnuts so they painted a walnut in a tree...

For Handwork today we made Martinmas Lanterns...