You can enjoy a glorious vacation and stay within your budget – but not both in the same summer!

How is your garden doing this year? If you are having trouble with any plants there is a website that will help you diagnose and repair them before they die.

Check out Gardeners.com

Pre K
Brice asked during our morning snack “Is today, tomorrow?”
1’s & 2’s
Sawyer said, “The baby is crying.” I asked him, “What do we do?” He said, “We need a screwdriver to fix her.”
Aaron said, “Look, a frog, a frog!” as he came running over with something in his hand. When he put it down, the creature was hopping like a frog, but it was because it was an insect that Aaron had carefully pulled the wings off of!
When Sawyer couldn’t pull the zipper down on his sweatshirt he squealed, “Help! I’m stuck in here!”
Sawyer also told Miss Erin “Putting my hug on you.”
Julianna said, “I have a fuzzy nose, I need a tissue.”

Children can make these gift cones for party favors, or to give to their families, friends, neighbors, etc. By varying the color, decorations, stickers or contents these can be made for holidays, birthdays and many other occasions.

Materials:
8 inch square of construction paper
5x10 inch strip of tissue paper
10 inch piece of ribbon
stickers, stamps, markers, etc for decorating
individually wrapped candies, mixes, etc.
glue
scissors

Directions:
Roll the square of construction paper into a cone and glue the overlapping edges together. Trim away the excess paper to make the top of the come level. Glue the tissue paper inside the cone one inch from the top, with the remaining tissue sticking above the edge. Decorate the cone with stickers, stamps, drawings, etc. Fill the cone with candies, mixes, or other small items. Tie the top of the tissue with ribbon.

Children love to be involved in holiday reparations. These can be made to decorate your home or as gifts for family and friends.

Materials:
crayons (broken one are perfect – remove paper)
disposable muffin tin
cotton swabs
Styrofoam eggs or balls
sequins
small beads
ribbon
pins

Directions:
Place one crayon (with paper removed) in each cup of a disposable muffin tin. Place the tin on a food warming tray or in an oven set at a very low temperature until crayons melt. Use cotton swabs to apply the melted wax to Styrofoam eggs or balls. Decorate with ribbon, sequins or beads. Using a pin attach a ribbon loop to the top for hanging.

Grandparents love pictures of their grandchildren. Microsoft offers you 51 Calendar Templates to use in Word. Take your pick, insert your pictures, print it out, wrap it and you are done!

Word Templates
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT103589901033.aspx?av=ZWD000

Teach your children the importance of sharing blessings with friends, family and neighbors. Scoop individual servings of the snack mix into small bags With ribbon attach a card to each bag with an explanation of the blessing mix (see below). Also include a message similar to, ?We?re thankful for you every season of the year.?

In a large bowl mix equal amounts of Bugles-brand corn snacks, pretzels, dried fruit and sunflower seeds. Sprinkle in some candy corn. While your children pour and stir, take time to discuss the meaning behind each ingredient?

? bugles represent a cornucopia, or a horn of plenty

? pretzels represent arms folded in thanks and prayer

? dried fruits represent the celebration of the harvest, Thanksgiving and when the Pilgrims finally had enough food to eat

? sunflower seeds represent the potential of a bounteous harvest for the next season

? candy corn represents maize (corn). During the first year of settlement, many Pilgrims died because food was so scarce. The pilgrims were each allotted only 5 kernels of corm per day. Native Americans shared corn with them and taught them how to plant this new crop.

Brice was tugging on his pants and Mrs. Lucie said, "Brice, do you want some help with your pants?" Brice said, "no, my butt's falling." (The problem was his underwear were not completely pulled off!)

Ava W. came in one morning and shared some very disturbing news with the class. She said, "I got shot!" The children and staff questioned her, (with a hand on her arm) she said, "Yeah, the doctor shot me!"
(She meant she had a flu shot)

Erin's class (1's & 2's)

Lochlann observes: birds squawking
planes flying by
sounds of spills..."uh oh"
tall trees blowing in the breeze

Aaron observes....
planes flying by
papa's feet when he's walking upstairs

Julianna observes...
yawns..."are you tired Miss Erin?"

Seamus observes...
coughing and asks "Are you okay?"

As the children (pre school) and I were getting ready to enjoy and fall Friday afternoon outside we stopped to notice the different colors and types and differences between our own jackets and our friends jackets. We also included other items such has hats and mittens!

Examples:
Casey has a pink and purple Dora the explorer hat and it has a rim
Devlyn has a purple knit hat
Michael has a camouflage jacket with a zipper
Chloe has a brown jacket with zipper and buttons
Ava has a bright pink hat, blue jacket and pink butterfly gloves
Brice has a black zipper jacket with a blue hat with a spider sewn on the side
Elise has a purple jacket and a pink princess hat with a bow
Vance has a brown zipper jacket and a tan vest.
We also sang a song about our shoes. We noticed what type (sneaker clog ect.) Color and any characters or interesting things about our shoes. Such as instead of laces they may have had velcro!

Here's an example of our song
"New shoes, old shoes Elise has brown flowered shoes"
"New shoes old shoes Miss Brianna has white and silver shoes"
We also got into group based on hat, shoe, jacket color.
We have some very Observant children ! They don't miss a thing !

Miss Brianna