We're All Dressed Up & Ready To Learn!

Most of our grant supplies came in this week. The kids are having a ball with it! They are learning how to share. With everything being new, they all want to play with the same things. My favorite is the little vacuum/dustbuster combo. It will pick up dust, fuzz, little things. It came with its own little bag of "trash" - a packet of white styrofoam dots. The kids really are enjoying that, too. Here are some pictures and video clips.

Let's play beauty shop...

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Learning under construction...

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

My Little Bakery

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Poor little puppy! Thank goodness for some great vets!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Feeling sick? The vets work as people docs, too!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

You've Got Mail!


Let's go on a plane ride!


Clean Up! Clean Up! Everybody do your share!

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

It's Fun To Stay At The YMCA!

Beans, Beans, Good for the Art

We made bean candle holders in preschool. Very simple to make. I got the idea from DLTK's site and adapted it a little. We used the cereal bowls from the breakfasts the kids get at school as the mold, the 15 bean soup mix and white school glue. I tried the tea candles this year. I've used tall candles in the past and I think I like the tall ones better. Here is how ours turned out. They are about 3"x3"x1 1/2".





I thought they would make cute center pieces on their thanksgiving tables. Emily's will be on ours!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!

J-P video clip

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Meteorologist James-Paul Dice Visits

J-P visited the MNC today! He had a great power point about the weather and safety. Afterward the kids got to check out the Storm Tracker vehicle. Here are some pics from today!

The whole MNC bunch.


My precious class! I love'em!


My class checking out Storm Tracker!


Storm Tracker


Me and J-P (My Emily has a crush on him now!)

The grant!

I won my grant!!! I will be getting my items for my dress up/creative play center.

Here is more about my grant.
ALL DRESSED UP AND READY TO LEARN

Trying something new - scarecrow pages

I made some scarecrow pages from pictures I googled. Matching, patterns, and counting. I'm going to try to upload them on here to share. I made these using WORD.


scarecrow counting.doc

scarecrow match.doc

scarecrow pattern.doc

Let me know if the links worked for you!

Autism is now 1 out of 91

This is from the Autism Society of America.
http://www.autism-society.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=20686.0&printer_friendly=1

"Could that statistic be correct? Unfortunately, yes. It's not a misprint. According to the Department of Health and Human Services National Survey of Children's Health, 1 out of every 91 children — 1% of American kids today — has an autism spectrum disorder. That's up from 1 child in every 150, just a few years ago in 2007... And if that’s not shocking enough, these statistics don’t even include adult prevalence or those children who remain undiagnosed — a still too common occurrence."

Shocking, huh?
Just thought I would share!