Princess was on hand to help Tiger keep his face clean..

Our final telling of Hansel and Gretel....

For handwork today we made candy houses...

Candy houses all ready to go home this evening...

Taking turns presenting their own stories....

Kisses for the "big dolly"

The beginning set-up of a very long game of "house"

Getting into dress-up

Off to do some serious snow shoveling today!

Letters with cvc cards.....

Playdoh with dinosaur cut outs...

Watering the plants....

There's a polar bear in the den....

Pirates in the snowy woods!

Perfect snowman snow!

Our finished snowman...

I love this picture!

At circletime we sing songs, do fingerplays, poems, calendar, early math and literacy and have a special weekly learning focus.

What is today's number?

We reviewed all our numbers up to 9 and then introduced 10 our first 2 digit number.....

We are learning about dinosaurs this week...

Matching dinosaurs...

Peanut is working on a colour wheel and Little Man is grinding up some almonds.

We made Challah for baking day......

Creative play this morning....."doctor"

Tiger has taken up shoveling the driveway....

Music Class today.....

"Ring them up high"

Miss Becca brought out the percussion instruments today...

Before heading outside for some more snow play the girls made some Chinese Lanterns...

The girls are working on a winter tree collage...

Tiger likes this little set of drawers......

when the drawers won't fit back in he fills it with blocks...

Cutting up some green onion for our Egg Drop Soup.

Trying to pick up a snow ball..

The girls are painting pictures of animals in the Chinese style...we first read a book about Wang Yani...a child artist from China who had her first exhibition when she was 4yrs old.

Painting

Peanut was so proud of her Card and Counter math work....fish with bubbles this month

I helped Little Man with the Rhyming Puzzle...

...then they finished it together.

We made Asia sand maps for craft today...

Tuesday is Painting Day!

Building with the Base 10 set....yes they did make tens first....

Storytime....

Today I had three takers for story...the Littles chose to play instead.

Baking Today....

Today we made Chinese Mooncakes.....

Tiger loves sliding down the snowbank...

Art

Today we made Sand Mandalas....