Train sponge painting...

Transportation lacing cards...

Getting a little advice on the transportation puzzle

using the cutting basket is the first step to learning to use scissors

Trying to trace around her fingers.....Princess is getting great hand control in readiness for writing.

New on the art shelf this week, decorating Christmas trees.

A new practical life work, cracking nuts.

A great day to play outside, the temperature hovered around zero and lots of new snow to play with.

Today we made St. Lucia buns...

November 25 and 26.....

Kitten has enjoyed the new colour and shape sorter.

Peanut has been enjoying colouring Aztec Mandalas this week.

practicing using scissors with the cutting basket....

Princess loved to paint this week....after she painted her paper she thought she would paint her hand.

Building a tower with the knobless cylinders...

We learned about South America this week....Princess loved looking at the children's atlas.

Tiger will be a great daddy some day....

The little children love to have a basket to put a few small toys in and carry around....

First big snow.....

Kitten enjoying the first big snow!

Doing the world map puzzle..

Discovering that you can build a tower when making patterns with knobless cylinders...

Shining pennies....

Telling a story with the story basket.

Continent matching....

Hitching a ride...

Peanut gave the Litttles a lesson on Canadian Geese...

A new colour and shape sorter I found at Value Village on the weekend.

Working with cylinder blocks together..

Our neighbour was making a bonfire to burn some brush..so we went to watch and have a little visit.

Through the puddle ....

and into the woods for a walk.

Fresh bread with honey and fruit tea for afternoon snack..

This was fun to watch....

Little Owl dumped our baskets of stones, sticks and pine cones into a large basket...

Then he dumped out the basket and examined everything...then got up and walked away.........he had another plan...

He went and got the train and loaded it up.....

Playing outside today....

We made these little pine cone gnomes for handwork today....

Morning snack...oatmeal with raisins.

The rain filled in our mud puddle......what fun!

Music class with Miss Becca....

One of our great Dads came for music class.....

Monday Nov. 15, 2010

I put this sand tray out this week and all the children love it.

Peanut to the told the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to her friends.

kneading and shaping our bread....Raisin bread today

Into to the woods....

Finally deer season is over and it is safe to venture into the woods...

Over the fallen log.....

Exploring in the woods....looking under logs, behind trees, under rocks