Alpine Children's House

Monday

9 January

Creating Balance

Creating Order and Music

C. brought the colored shapes out to the exercise mat to match the colors to the stripes.

Then everyone wanted to join in...

Then A brought out more red things...

Working Independently

Working Together

Peeling a soaked almond

Washing breakfast dishes

Friday

6 January

Happy children doing good work

B brought the new arcobaleno to the exercise mat to work

A. working on latches board

As H. looks on with interest

Practicing Pouring

carefully

Baby or no Baby, its fun to push around the stroller

writing and drawing on new small chalkboards

At morning circle, we sang one of our favorite songs: "Magic Penny", which always elicits many hugs. It goes like this:

Love is something if you give it away

Give it away

Love is something if you give it away

You end up having more

Love is like a magic penny

Hold it tight and you wont have any

Lend it and spend it

You'll have so many

They'll roll all over the floor

Love is something if you give it away

Give it away

Love is something if you give it away

You end up having more.

Trying out the panorama feature on my new camera in the play yard


Feeding Fire some oats

Breakfast:

Scrambled Eggs

Toast with Flax Oil

Gimme Lean Soysage

Orange Juice

Lunch:

Polenta with Tomato Sauce

Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Black Beans

Snack:

Organic Cheddar Cheese

Applesauce

Nori

Thursday

5 January

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!
We had a great first day back from break.

Check out all the new works out today--

Thanks to the CSEA(Civil Service Employees Association) who awarded me a Child Care Quality Grant, I was able to order educational materials from Kaplan Early Learning Company.

The latches board, stacking pegged shapes, and bugs at the sensory table are just a few of the new works that came from Kaplan. Not shown is our new exercise mat, which the children had fun tumbling on today.