First Snow!

Happy Friday! As always, it's wonderful to be back in action with your children. We started our "Star of the Week" project this week with Jackson - how fun! A big thanks to his family for helping us kick this off. 

As we head into December we start thinking about a wonderful pre-k tradition: our Winter Solstice Celebration. This year we'll be holding our celebration on Wednesday December 22nd at 5:00. The event will be masked and outdoors, and will involve a lantern walk to a fire in Wildwood Forest. It'll be a quick celebration (half an hour? short enough to get you home for dinner), and will be masked and distanced outside. We hope you can come celebrate the shortest day of the year with community and light!

SO, in preparation we'd love to start gathering materials for our lanterns. If you have any empty half gallon milk jugs or empty tin cans send 'em on in. 

Enjoy some pictures from the week - it was a cold one so the phone didn't make it out of my pocket quite as often! 

Our Star of the Week invited his mother and a neighbor to come visit for circle time.

Children were excited to see our new bulletin board in the classroom.

Ice experiments...how long does it take for water to freeze? This child is watching to find out. 

Lots of industrious work in the wood shop!

The doctor's office continues to be a fun place to pretend. This vet is off to rescue puppies who got their paws stuck in a tree!

We found some interesting bones and feathers on our nature trail this week. In the cold months we try to do an expedition every day before lunch to get our bodies nice and warm. 

Wet SNOW means...snowmen! These two work on adding a face.

It was great fun while it lasted!

What a fun fire today! We made tortillas and filled them with chocolate chips and bananas. The kids thought they were the best tacos ever!

This fun tortilla press helped us flatten the dough. Then our fire-tenders Missy and Clay helped us roll them out and cook them over the fire. 

Add chocolate chips, and...yum!

Yum!

Yum!