This finger-knitted rope has been the most played with item in the preschool classroom....

Playing Joesph and Mary with baby Jesus!

We inherited some "new to us" pots so the children just had to make pots of mud soup and mud cakes

Morning snack time....it was Princess's turn to serve the water...

Montessori Time....this week our learning focus is South America

There are lots of interesting books in our little library.

This month there are different rock samples in our opening and closing work....

Push pin work....

Colouring S. American animals...

South America punch map....this work improves the three finger pincher grip needed for writing, strengthens the hand and wrist, helps to improve the fine movements needed for writing, helps the children memorize the shape of S. America and is just plain fun!

Merlin working with the S. America Play Doh map....he likes to walk the jaguar in the Play Doh to make tracks..

Friday has become our drama day....when we act out our week's story. This week I told the story of "Sweet Porridge"

Receiving the magic porridge pot...

"Mmmmm...it smells so sweet"

"Its all over the floor.....how can I make it stop?"

O Boy....look at all the porridge on the ground!

We spend some time each morning in our Montessori Classroom....the non-nappers, spend the afternoon quiet time in the Montessori Classroom.

Iish really enjoys his books...

Wheels wanted to know how to do the Binomial Cube...

Iish working with the Geometric Solids....

On Wednesdays we head into the woods to explore and play....

Over logs and up and down hills...

Looking for the perfect spot to stop and play....

Playing in the woods...

"Hello, is anybody home?"

They love playing restaurant....Tiger is taking the orders. He was also the chef!

Wednesday Music Class

Mrs. Becca is our MYC teacher.....

They pretended they were on a float in the Santa Claus parade....

Afternoon Snack Time....

Flowerpot set the table....

....and Tiger poured the water.

Montessori Time

Our Nature Walk

We went on a Nature Walk to collect things for our nature collages that we made for art this afternoon.

Happy Birthday Iish!

Doing his Birthday Walk....

four times around the sun this year.....

When this little guy smiles, it is always "ear to ear".

I have been telling the story of Goldilocks all week...today we took turns and acted it out...such fun!

The Three Bears....Mommy Bear, Baby Bear and Daddy Bear.

Our first Goldilocks

"Someone's been eating our porridge"

The bears checked out their chairs...

Princess took her turn being Goldilocks...."Too Salty"

Playing puppets together....

Pouring tea...

Montessori Time

Working on the World Map Puzzle...

Opening and closing work...

The magnet box is still the hot activity this week.

Punchwork...

Building a tower with very small blocks....this is actually pretty difficult and a great fine motor activity

We took our Jack-o-Lantern into the woods to feed the animals.

This was absolutely the highlight of my week...I wish you all could have been there to watch the children working together to get the pumpkin into the woods

And of course it rolled off a few times...

Push Iish....