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