16 January

Today we were

Making the birdies sing...

Concentrating

Expressing

Solving

Independently

We tried out breakfast in the classroom today so busy kids could keep working while hungry kids could eat. It worked out great. It turned out everyone was hungry.

Breakfast

Ezekiel Raisin Toast with Organic Cream Cheese

Orange Slices

 Almond Milk

After Breakfast we had a Morning Circle, singing the top three most requested songs: 

#1 Funny Clown  (The Two's have recently started wanting to take a turn being the clown too)

I know a funny clown and his/her name is _______

Watch him/her do a funny trick inside the circus ring DING(cue the clown)
 

#2 Land of the Silver Birch ( thanks to Valerie who taught me this song in 2009 while working at Ithaca Montessori School)

Land of the silver birch (make arms like trees with fingers branches)

Home of the beaver (fold hands and show front teeth)

Where still the mighty moose (make antlers by putting thumb tips against your head and spread fingers up)

Wander at will (walk side to side with hands)

Blue skies and rocky shores

I will return once more

Boom ditty a da 

Boom ditty a da

Boom Boom Boom

 

#3 Crabs in the Moonlight

Crabs in the moonlight

Crabs in the moonlight

Crabs in the moonlight

In the moon- light

2X

Dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight 

Dancing in the moonlight

In the moon-light

2x

Lunch

shredding spaghetti squash

Spaghetti Squash with Organic Tomato Sauce, Soy Meatballs and Mozzarella Cheese

Green Beans (frozen, from Stick and Stone) 

Polenta (Cayuga Pure Organics)

slicing the mozzarella

Snack

Bananas

Nori

Puffed Kamut Cereal

13 January

Friday the thirteenth brought beautiful snow-- At least 6 inches here near Mecklenburg.

Going outside was the highlight of the morning. It took us more time to get ready to go out then we spent outside, but for the first few minutes out in the sharp air, we all felt the bliss of winter and stood in awe of the transformation of our world. It really is magical.

 

"where's my other boot?  Oh, its stuck in my pants"

Getting unzipped

Breakfast: Oatmeal with Raisins 

                  Apple Slices

                  Apple Juice

Lunch: Black Beans with Nutritional Yeast

            Polenta with Muenster Cheese

            Steamed Broccoli with Tamari

            Roasted Beets (local)

            Homemade Applesauce

            Flax Milk

Snack: Fresh Baked Almond Muffins 

            (with Almond meal and extract)

            Cherries 

            (Dalrymple Farms in Hector, picked in July)

            Yogurt

            

Making Muffins in the afternoon

Out for an evening walk in the snow

11 January

There just has not been enough time in the morning lately for these busy children. Breakfast keeps getting later and later because they don't want to stop working in the classroom.

Diapering and Dressing Baby

 

"Where are her pants?"

  




Keeping the chalkboard clean

 At story time the last few days, the children chose, among other books, The Sneetches by Dr Suess. 

H. especially likes the parts with the machines:

"So they clambered inside. Then the big machine roared 

And it klonked. And it bonked. And it jerked. And it berked 

And it bopped them about. But the thing really worked"

 And A. likes this tounge twisting rhyme:

They kept paying money. They kept running through

Until neither the Plain nor the star Bellies knew

Whether this one was that one... or that one was this one

Or which one was what one...or what one was who.

Today, since I recently re-located my misplaced star-stamper, we punched out many green stars. Some children glued them to paper, and some drew Sneetches and glued them on their bellies.

 We have been encorporating some fun yoga songs into our morning circle. The children have started asking to sing the elephant and crab songs regularly. These songs are from Shakta Kaur Khalsa's cd, Children's Yoga Songs and Meditations. It introduces Kundalini Yoga to children in a playful and joyful way. 

 Breakfast

  Raisin Toast (Ezekiel Sprouted Grains)

  Organic Goat Milk Yogurt

  Soaked Almonds

  Blueberry- Kale- Orange Juice

Lunch

Brown Rice

Scrambled Eggs(as local as it gets)

Steamed (frozen) Peas

Roasted Buttered Parsnips(local)

Snack

Organic Muenster Cheese

Organic Apple

Organic Sweet Red Pepper