Taking turns being King Winter during circletime

"Good-bye King Winter,
Your rule is no more,
The ice and snow melting
All over Earth's floor"

The children love to make their own loaf of bread to take home each Monday...today we made whole wheat raisin bread

Tiger hasn't attended on Monday since the beginning of the school year.....he didn't forget how to make bread though!

Outdoor fun today...

Making snow bricks...

I think he needs more snow!

Thursday Feb.24/ Work chosen today!

Painting

Working together to place the scrunchies on the jar

Egg and tongs

Slotted spoon transferring

Farm animal matching...

The rock is a favourite place to hang out!

Our geraniums are blooming. They are giving us hope that spring is just around the corner.......goodbye King Winter!

The day started with some creative play....

Peanut the purple bunny...

Little Man the white bunny...

Iish the tiger....

Flowerpot took a break to look at a few books...

Peanut was in a counting mood today...

Counting the farm animals...

Counting with math beads...

Large Toothpick work...

Lady Spring is making her presence felt.....

Yeah....it feels like spring!

Feb. 17, 18 and 22

Lady bug tracing constellations...a great pre-writing activity

Sorting sparkly pom poms with tweezers....I put these out last week for "space week"....I was hoping it looked a little "galactic"

Last year I had this work out for a short while and no one was very interested but this year Iish loves it.....an example of the right thing at the right time!

Making a word book...

Princess Flowerpot

Open ended toys leave lots of room for creativity.....this is a farm with a duck pond

Sponge painting with farm animal sponges

Our learning focus this week is the Solar System

Peel and stick stars is a great fine motor activity for the Littles.

Building towers with knobless cylinders....it's not as easy as it looks!

Marching along to some of our favourite tunes at Tree House by Kathy Reid-Naiman "Say Hello to the Morning"

We got creative with our bingo dabbers this morning..

To go along with this week's learning focus we had star fruit on our fruit plates for afternoon snack today....

Happy Valentine's Day

A game of Peter Pan and the Indians.....

Today we made Jam Tarts for our tea party

Our Valentine's Teddy Bear Tea Party

Thursday and Friday

Ladybug thought the Valentine's bead work was very pretty....

The cutting basket is always popular....

Flowerpot loves to paint. She is finally catching on that she can choose to paint everyday if she wants....

The girls made metal inset designs....

Push pin hearts

Pushpin work is great for working the pincer grip and strengthening the hand for writing which will come later....

Wise Owl enjoyed the Valentine's card work this week...

Little Wise Owl made a whole box of Play Doh Chocolates today...

Princess made a lovely Valentine's card...

Little Man made a heart punch book mark....