April, 2012

Decorating our bird feeders
2-year-old class

The birds will have a feast
2-year-old class

Planting our lima beans
2-year-old class

Will it grow?
2-year-old class

Look how much mine grew
2-year-old class

The frogs are ready to perform our Passover songs
2-year-old class

Painting sedar plates
2-year-old class

2-year-old class

Stamping frogs on our matzah covers
2-year-old class

2-year-old class

Look how great they turned out!
2-year-old class

Painting kiddish cups
2-year-old class

Learning about bees
2-year-old class

I hope it doesn't sting me
2-year-old class

Bees are buzzing everywhere
2-year-old class

Painting caterpillars
2-year-old class

I want mine to be colorful
2-year-old class

Our beautiful butterflies
2-year-old class

We are making ants in dirt
2-year-old class

Crushing graham crackers
2-year-old class

Adding the muddy pudding
2-year-old class

Ants in mud are not so bad
2-year-old class

Pretty good
2-year-old class

Making messy mud
2-year-old class

Look I'm all muddy
2-year-old class

Squeezing out the water to make rain
2-year-old class

So much clean fun
2-year-old class

Ready to plant
2-year-old class

My plant will make the garden look beautiful
2-year-old class

Water makes plants grow
2-year-old class

Ace's mommy read to us
2-year-old class

Planting lima beans
3-year-old class

We have to make sure they have enough water
3-year-old class

3-year-old class

Re-planting our lima beans
3-year-old class

Such happy slaves
3-year-old class

Painting a quilt on a canvas
3-year-old class

Everyone painted a spot
3-year-old class

Q-tip painting
3-year-old class

Water painting Rainbow fish
3-year-old class

Adding shimmery scales to our Rainbow fish
3-year-old class

Red and robin begin with the letter R
3-year-old class

Making sure he has a beak
3-year-old class

Cutting out flowers
3-year-old class

Pretty flowers
3-year-old class

Yummy field trip
3-year-old class

Tasting the plants at the farm
3-year-old class

We love to eat the carrots
3-year-old class

Strawberries are best when you eat them at the farm
3-year-old class

Look Look...strawberries
3-year-old class

I found the biggest strawberry
3-year-old class

Cutting out strawberries for S week
3-year-old class

Here is what I liked best from our field trip
3-year-old class

Playing BINGO
3-year-old class

Cutting out a squirrel
3-year-old class

Paint our squirrels
3-year-old class

Cutting strawberries from the farm
3-year-old class

Can't wait to taste our strawberry shortcake
3-year-old class

So delicious!!
3-year-old class

3-year-old class

Making Stone Soup from the veggies we got at the farm
3-year-old class

Adding a little
3-year-old class

It was so yummy
3-year-old class

So excited to plant
3-year-old class

Working hard to make our garden look nice
3-year-old class

Ella's mommy and sister read to us
3-year-old class

Thank you Braydon's mommy for reading to us
3-year-old class

Thank you Emily's mommy for reading to us
3-year-old class

We are ready to perform
Pre-Kindergarten class

Moses lead us out of Egypt
Pre-Kindergarten class

We did a wonderful job
Pre-Kindergarten class

We have arrived at Tanaka Farms
Pre-Kindergarten class

We are so happy to ride the wagon
Pre-Kindergarten class

Pre-Kindergarten class

Pre-Kindergarten class

Tasting onions
Pre-Kindergarten class

This was a yummy field trip
Pre-Kindergarten class

We did a lot of choopping
Pre-Kindergarten class

I think it's ready to be cooked
Pre-Kindergarten class

Finished...we made some homemade vegtable soup
Pre-Kindergarten class

Here we go again!
Pre-Kindergarten class

Looking at the farm animals
Pre-Kindergarten class

It feels so soft
Pre-Kindergarten class

Learning about the farm
Pre-Kindergarten class

Our Read Around the Garden Party
Pre-Kindergarten class

We had special readers all day long
Pre-Kindergarten class

Thank you parents for reading to us
Pre-Kindergarten class
March, 2012

We had fun at the fire station
2-year-old class

We are dressed up for our Purim parade
2-year-old class

Performing our Purim songs
2-year-old class

We made Dr. Seuss' hats
2-year-old class

Decorating our placemat with Dr. Seuss' stickers
2-year-old class

Beating our eggs
2-year-old class

Our green eggs are almost ready
2-year-old class

This is hard work
2-year-old class

Our eggs are cooking
2-year-old class

I do, I do like green eggs
2-year-old class

I would them here or there
2-year-old class

Miss Susan is reading Green Eggs and Ham to us
2-year-old class

Our noisy groggers are ready
2-year-old class

Painting paper plates for our shalach manot
2-year-old class

2-year-old class

Cutting circles
2-year-old class

Rolling out the dough
2-year-old class

The filing has chocolate chips
2-year-old class

Making hamantashan
2-year-old class

Can't wait to taste these hamantshan
2-year-old class

Our fruit loop rainbow
2-year-old class

So many colors
2-year-old class

Every piece has a special spot
2-year-old class

Handprint rainbow
2-year-old class

Together we make a colorful rainbow
2-year-old class

Painting birds
2-year-old class

2-year-old class

We love to paint
2-year-old class

Painting eggs
2-year-old class

Look at my beautiful bird
2-year-old class

Making bird food for our feeders
2-year-old class

Painting our bird feeders
2-year-old class

The birds are going to love these bird feeders
2-year-old class

We made nest with candy eggs
2-year-old class

Look at our trees, we made them with shapes
2-year-old class

We are making stratus clouds
3-year-old class

More clouds
3-year-old class

Tasting the lemons for our lemonade
3-year-old class

Squeezing out the juice is hard work
3-year-old class

This lemonade is so delicious
3-year-old class

Patterning with leaves
3-year-old class

Making marshmallow structures
3-year-old class

Graphing m&m's
3-year-old class

Decorating our Purim masks
3-year-old class

Painting our plates for our groggers
3-year-old class

Marble painting
3-year-old class

We made some yummy hamantashan
3-year-old class

They are ready to share
3-year-old class

Making bird nest for N week
3-year-old class

We went outside to find our shadow
3-year-old class

Here's my shadow
3-year-old class

I'm dancing with my shadow
3-year-old class

We explored a real octopus for P week
3-year-old class

It feels funny
3-year-old class

It's so interesting
3-year-old class

Making our own octopus
3-year-old class

Working together to make a big rainbow
3-year-old class

After looking for all the yellow things, I glue them down
3-year-old class

Painting a rainbow
3-year-old class

My rainbow is so lovely
3-year-old class

Making our weather chart
3-year-old class

We are recording the weather
3-year-old class

Today it was sunny
3-year-old class

Rolling out the dough
3-year-old class

Make sure it has enough cheese
3-year-old class

We made the perfect lunch for P week; pizza, pears and pretzels
3-year-old class

We are ready for our Purim parade
Pre-K class

We learned a lot at the fire station
Pre-K class

The firefighters are so brave
Pre-K class

Making green eggs
Pre-K class

Eating green eggs and (turkey) ham
Pre-K class

The Cat in the Hat (Miss Susan) read to us
Pre-K class

We had fun learing about bugs
Pre-K class

Our field trip to El Dorado Park
Pre-K class

We enjoyed our nature walk
Pre-K class

Pre-K class

Taking a rest
Pre-K class
February, 2012

Making a cover for our Shape book
2-year-old class

Making crecent sandwich
2-year-old class

Rolling our crecent sandwich
2-year-old class

Ice cream cones are perfect triangles
2-year-old class

Making brownies
2-year-old class

Stirring up the mix
2-year-old class

Can't wait to taste
2-year-old class

Making circle pizzas
2-year-old class

Adding plenty of cheese
2-year-old class

Adding sauce to the circles
2-year-old class

Making a pig by using heart shapes
2-year-old class

Making a tiger by using rectangles shapes
2-year-old class

Making a scary dinosaur
2-year-old class

Squeezing out all the juice from our oranges
2-year-old class

Making fresh orange juice
2-year-old class

Making orange juice for our Teddy bear picnic
2-year-old class

Enjoying a wonderful lunch out on the yard
2-year-old class

We cut out houses for H Week.
3-year-old class

Then, we glued on our street names.....
3-year-old class

....and our addresses.
3-year-old class

Doesn't my house look great?
3-year-old class

We made ice cream for I Week.
3-year-old class

It was delicious. Yum!
3-year-old class

We made jam for J Week.
3-year-old class

We smashed lots of strwaberries for the jam.
3-year-old class

We also made jets for J Week....
3-year-old class

....and dictated where we'd like to go.
3-year-old class

We made caterpillar hats for our insect unit.
3-year-old class

We cut out caterpillar eggs for our sequences.
3-year-old class

We used dots of paint to make butterflies.
3-year-old class

I wanted my butterfly to be very colorful.
3-year-old class

Wow! Look how beautiful my butterfly is.
3-year-old class

We made chrysalises for our sequences.....
3-year-old class

...then glued on our beautiful butterflies.
3-year-old class

I glued the butterfly's body on him.
3-year-old class

Now they're ready to take home.
3-year-old class

We learned about bees and tasted honey.
3-year-old class

A new unit: the weather!
3-year-old class

We learned about the water cycle and clouds.
3-year-old class

Enjoying a story from our guest reader.
Pre-Kindergarten class

My snowman wants a hug.
Pre-Kindergarten class

This snowman is ready to go home.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We are gathered for our weekly reading.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We made wonderful George Washington hats.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Zero the Hero to the rescue.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Me and my hero.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Getting our friendship snack ready.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Pouring in all our yummy treats.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Counting by 10's.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Look 100 colorful balloons.
Pre-Kindergarten class
January, 2012

We learned about snow and played with "snowdrifts."
2-year-old class

We love playing at our sensory table.....
2-year-old class

....especially when it's filled with pretend snow.
2-year-old class

We made snowflakes with bell peppper prints.
2-year-old class

I'm making lots of snowflake prints.
2-year-old class

We're making snowmen with cotton balls.
2-year-old class

We decorated an ice snowman.
2-year-old class

Look how great our freezing snowman looks.
2-year-old class

I'm using marshmallows to build a snowman.
2-year-old class

I'm putting a face on mine.
2-year-old class

Now I'm using marshmallows to print a snowman.
2-year-old class

I'm making a snow tree from my handprint.
2-year-old class

We're making snowflakes to decorate our room.
2-year-old class

Snowcones are delicious, especially with candy.
2-year-old class

Now, to warm up with some hot chocolate.
2-year-old class

I'm using ice to paint with.
2-year-old class

Powder paint and ice make a gooey project.
2-year-old class

I'm learning about rectangles, making this door.
2-year-old class

I'm learning about triangles, making a cone.
2-year-old class

I'm making an oval watermelon.
2-year-old class

I'm making a diamond kite.
2-year-old class

Yum, a circle pizza!
2-year-old class

I'm using star stamps on my square present.
2-year-old class

My last shape: a beautiful heart.
2-year-old class

I'm painting the triangle roof for my house.
2-year-old class

Here goes my rectangle door.
2-year-old class

I used 10 shapes to build my house.
2-year-old class

There's even a picture of me behind the door.
2-year-old class

We made D pages and donuts for D Week.
3-year-old class

On E Week, we learned about elephants.
3-year-old class

We made elephant puppets.
3-year-old class

I love my puppet-I can even move his trunk.
3-year-old class

We learned about fish on F Week.
3-year-old class

I can see the fish's gills.
3-year-old class

I'm painting a fish.
3-year-old class

I've never painted a fish before!
3-year-old class

After I'm done, we'll print it.
3-year-old class

We're rubbing the fish with black paper.
3-year-old class

The paper will have a fish print on it.
3-year-old class

We're making the dough for gingerbread men.
3-year-old class

Then we roll out the dough.
3-year-old class

This is going to be a yummy G Week.
3-year-old class

Then, we cut out the gingerbread men.
3-year-old class

Now, I decorate my gingerbread man.
3-year-old class

We found the escaped cookie in our bookcase.
3-year-old class

We started a new science unit: Insects.
3-year-old class

We're making ant heads from paper mache.
3-year-old class

All 3 insect parts are put together.
3-year-old class

Our ants have heads, thoraxes and abdomens.
3-year-old class

Now he needs 2 antennae.
3-year-old class

Our ants are finally ready to take home.
3-year-old class

We learn about the ant's life cycle.....
3-year-old class

.....and we made ant wheels.
3-year-old class

We're learning about butterflies.
3-year-old class

I'm making a caterpillar headband.
3-year-old class

My caterpillar is on the leaf of my sunflower.
3-year-old class

We took a field trip to the skating rink!
Pre-Kindergarten class

We all got skating lessons and had so much fun.
Pre-Kindergarten class

I'm cutting out a snowman for my book.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We dressed warm for our "snowball fight."
Pre-Kindergarten class

We're making lots of snowballs.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Snowballs everywhere!
Pre-Kindergarten class

We're making skinny snowmen.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Don't they look great?
Pre-Kindergarten class

We made dragons for the Year of the Dragon.
Pre-Kindergarten class

Can you see me in the dragon's mouth?
Pre-Kindergarten class

Our dragon parade is so much fun.
Pre-Kindergarten class

And finally....a delicious Chinese feast!
Pre-Kindergarten class
November/December, 2011

I'm making a corn-on-the-cob print.
2-year-old class

This is pretty messy work.
2-year-old class

We're making colorful pasta collages.
2-year-old class

We're making a fall spice collage.
2-year-old class

I'm adding feathers to my Thanksgiving turkey.
2-year-old class

My turkey will be very fluffy.
2-year-old class

I'm making a paper bag turkey.
2-year-old class

Look how beautiful my turkey is.
2-year-old class

This is my turkey centerpiece for my family's table.
2-year-old class

We made handprint turkeys with different colors.
2-year-old class

I love looking at my turkey color book.
2-year-old class

I'm making a water color placemat.
2-year-old class

Our lunches taste better on our placemats.
2-year-old class

We're dressed as Pilgrims and Native Americans.
2-year-old class

Sshh....I'm making a surprise Hanukah gift.
2-year-old class

This is a dreidel decoration for Hanukah.
2-year-old class

I'm making a dreidel magnet for my refrigerator.
2-year-old class

I'm making a real wooden dreidel to spin.
2-year-old class

I'm practicing my dreidel spinning.
2-year-old class

We're getting pretty good at this.
2-year-old class

I'm counting my Hanukah gelt....I'm rich!
2-year-old class

I'm making a pouch for all my Hanukah gelt.
2-year-old class

My pouch will be beautiful and colorful.
2-year-old class

I'm making a paper plate menorah.
2-year-old class

My menorah needs 8 candles for Hanukah.
2-year-old class

I'm rolling out dough for Hanukah cookies.
2-year-old class

I'm going to make a dreidel cookie.
2-year-old class

Wow!! Flipping latkes is exciting.
2-year-old class

When do we get to eat them?
2-year-old class

Finally....the best part of making latkes.
2-year-old class

We're making a scent plaque.
3-year-old class

We've been learning about our sense of smell.
3-year-old class

I'm making my own scent from extracts.
3-year-old class

My scent will smell like oranges and mint.
3-year-old class

We're using scented stickers for our smell pages.
3-year-old class

Our five senses books are ready to take home.
3-year-old class

Working on all these pages was fun.
3-year-old class

I'm rolling out the clay to make a 9 magnet.
3-year-old class

Now I push the 9 into the clay.
3-year-old class

You have to push very hard to get a good magnet.
3-year-old class

Finally, our number books are ready.
3-year-old class

I worked very hard on all my number pages.
3-year-old class

We'll read our books to our moms and dads.
3-year-old class

My handprint will soon be a turkey.
3-year-old class

We made handprint turkeys on wooden boards.
3-year-old class

We made Mayflowers sailing across the Atlantic.
3-year-old class

We started a new unit - the alphabet. It's A week.
3-year-old class

I'm doing an apple seed guessing game.
3-year-old class

I made apple glasses for A week.
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We made alligator puppets....that begins with A.
3-year-old class

I'm brought a camera in my C bag for C week.
3-year-old class

I'm painting beads for a Native American necklace.
3-year-old class

We made corn napkin rings and fall placemats.
3-year-old class

These will look great on our Thanksgiving table.
3-year-old class

I'm making a jewel dreidel to decorate my house.
3-year-old class

I'm making a yummy edible menorah for Hanukah.
3-year-old class

I can't wait to light my menorah at home.
3-year-old class

I made a winter book mark for my favorite book.
3-year-old class

Aren't our menorahs beautiful?
3-year-old class

We learned Native American symbols.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We're painting our teepee for Thanksgiving.
Pre-Kindergarten class

I'm in my Native Ameriacn costume.
Pre-Kindergarten class

My Native American Name is Running Deer.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We're working on our math pages-we are so smart.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We made yummy edible dreidels.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We made the most lucsious latkes ever.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We love when guest readers visit our room.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We went to Leisure World and gave a concert.
Hanukah Concert

We sang for the people of Congregation Sholom.
Hanukah Concert

The congregants loved our songs.
Hanukah Concert

It was fun meeting the members of the congregation.
Hanukah Concert

We also sang for our families.
Family Hanukah Night

We wore our dreidel headbands.
Family Hanukah Night

We made candles for our menorah song.
Family Hanukah Night

We sang so well and our families loved the show.
Family Hanukah Night

After the concert, we'll have a party.
Family Hanukah Night

Rabbi Meyers loved the concert so much!
Family Hanukah Night

We made special trays to give to our families.
Family Hanukah Night
October, 2011

We met Rabbi Myers in the sukkah.
Sukkot

She told us all about the holiday.
Sukkot

Each of us got to shake the lulav and etrog.
Sukkot

We learned about fall and painted fall leaves.
2-year-old class

I painted a banana for my color book.
2-year-old class

We made the yellow and green pages for our books.
2-year-old class

I painted a brown bear for the brown page.....
2-year-old class

...and a gray elephant.
2-year-old class

We're almost finished with our books.
2-year-old class

I love reading my color book!
2-year-old class

We got out all the seeds from our pumpkin.
2-year-old class

This was messy work.
2-year-old class

Then we made an Elmo from our pumpkin.
2-year-old class

Then we painted with rolling pumpkins.
2-year-old class

We made paper bag pumpkins.....
2-year-old class

....and we made pumpkins for our bulletin board.
2-year-old class

I cut raisin bread for a pupmkin bread pudding.
2-year-old class

I mixed the batter for the pumpkin pudding.
2-year-old class

We mixed lots of ingredients to make a pumpkin pie.
2-year-old class

Look at how great our pies turned out!
2-year-old class

I'd never eat pie without whipped cream.
2-year-old class

This is my favorite part of baking.
2-year-old class

Our entire school visited the Sanctuary.
2-year-old class

Rabbi Myers taught us about Simchat Torah.
2-year-old class

We took turns using the yad to look at the Torah.
2-year-old class

We made spider webs.
2-year-old class

We read the book "The Big, Green Monster."
2-year-old class

We made a big, green monster cake.
2-year-old class

We wondered if he tastes as good as he looks.
2-year-old class

We made candles for Yom Kippur....
3-year-old class

...and dictated how we will help our families.
3-year-old class

We made decorations for the sukkah.
3-year-old class

We made pumpkins to decorate our sukkah.
3-year-old class

We made our own little sukkahs.
3-year-old class

Bereishit is the first word in our Torahs.
3-year-old class

We made number frogs.
3-year-old class

Here are my 5 frogs on a log.
3-year-old class

We painted 7's for our number books.
3-year-old class

We painted plates to make tamborines.
3-year-old class

We learned about our ears and our sense of hearing.
3-year-old class

We used our hearing with our tamborines.
3-year-old class

We made our hearing pages with rubber bands.
3-year-old class

We made fireworks for our sense of sight pages.
3-year-old class

I put a mirror into my kaleidescope.
3-year-old class

I use my sense of sight with my kaleidescope.
3-year-old class

I painted covers for my binoculars.
3-year-old class

I'll use my sense of sight with my binoculars.
3-year-old class

We wrote with feathers on our Torahs.
Pre-K class

We also made edible Torahs.
Pre-K class

I know my Torah will taste sweet.
Pre-K class

We saw the real Torah on Erev Simachat Torah.
Pre-K class

We're taking out the seeds for estimation.
Pre-K class

We wonder how many seeds are in this pumpkin.
Pre-K class

Everyone grabbed a handfull of seeds.
Pre-K class

This will soon be a pumkin pie.
Pre-K class

We made pumpkin pancakes, too.
Pre-K class

We made faces with chocolate chips.
Pre-K class

Then we used our pumpkins to bowl with!
Pre-K class

It going to be a strike!
Pre-K class

We read the book "Chick, Chicka, Boom, Boom."
Pre-K class

I know all the letters on my tree.
Pre-K class

Jacob's grandma read us "Tea for Ruby."
Pre-K class

Dave Baroway visited our class to read.
Pre-K class

He read "Pirates Don't Change Diapers."
Pre-K class

Miss Kylie read "Black Crow, Black Crow."
Pre-K class

We all got to see a crow.
Pre-K class

We read along at the listening table.
Pre-K class

Firefighter Ryan visited our class.
Pre-K class

He showed us how he gets ready for a fire.
Pre-K class

Here's what he looks like when he does his job.
Pre-K class

Miss April taught us to write straight-line letters.
Pre-K class

We use hula hoops to learn math.
Pre-K class

We visited Tanaka Farm.
Tanaka Farm

We enjoyed their petting zoo.
Tanaka Farm

I especially loved the goats.
Tanaka Farm

We picked pumpkins from their pumpkin patch.
Tanaka Farm

It was hard finding just the right one.
Tanaka Farm
September, 2011

We painted school buses on our first day.
2-year-old class

We cut up apples to make apple sauce.
2-year-old class

Yum...we made apple pies.
2-year-old class

We painted apples with stencils.
2-year-old class

We made handprints on our Rosh Hashanah cards.
2-year-old class

Mommy and Daddy wil love this card!
2-year-old class

We made an apple counting game.
3-year-old class

We painted school buses.
3-year-old class

We drew our friends in the buses and dictated.
3-year-old class

We made our 1 pages with a pom pom.
3-year-old class

We rolled the dough for our number magnets....
3-year-old class

....then we painted the magnets.
3-year-old class

We prepared honeyed carrots for Rosh Hashanah.
3-year-old class

These carrots are delicious.
3-year-old class

We made tzedakah boxes to bring home.
3-year-old class

We learned about the birthday of the world.....
3-year-old class

...and we made birthday hats for Rosh Hashanah.
3-year-old class

We sewed shofars for the new year.
3-year-old class

We painted our shofars.
3-year-old class

My shofar will be very loud.
3-year-old class

We kneaded the dough for our challahs.
3-year-old class

We painted egg yolk on them.
3-year-old class

We created prints for our Rosh Hashanah cards.
3-year-ol class

Didn't they come out beautiful?
3-year-old class

Our apples needed lots of honey-dipping.
3-year-old class

We used feathers for our 3 page.
3-year-old class

I brought my 3 favorite toys in my 3 bag.
3-year-old class

We baked lots of round challahs....yum!
Pre-Kindergarten class

We made word worms for our sight words.
Pre-K class

We tasted and compared apples for our apple graph.
Pre-K class

We flattened the dough to make apple dumplings.
Pre-K class

Look at our delicious apple dumplings.
Pre-K class

Our guest reader read lots of books about pigeons.
Pre-K class

Then we made yummy "pigeon poop."
Pre-K class

Ms. April teaches us sight words.
Pre-K class

We start our handwriting program by drawing.
Pre-K class

We celebrated a birthday in our class!
Pre-K class

We all helped make apple pies.
Pre-K class
August, 2011

We visited the fire station.
Community Helper Week

The fire fighters gave us fire hats.
Community Helper Week

We took turns in the driver's seat.
Community Helper Week

I'm very tall up here.
Community Helper Week

I'm ready to drive to the fire.
Community Helper Week

We loved our tour of the fire station.
Community Helper Week

We started a Grocery Store in our classroom.
Community Helper Week

We bought lots of food and paid the clerk.
Community Helper Week

We're the grocery clerks.
Community Helper Week

Don't our clerk aprons look great?
Community Helper Week

Then we became chefs.
Community Helper Week

We made chef's hats.
Community Helper Week

Now we're ready to cook.
Community Helper Week

We made macaroni and cheese....yum!
Community Helper Week

Then we made a Post Office in our classroom.
Community Helper Week

We're making sure that the mail gets delivered.
Community Helper Week

Now our classroom is a hospital.
Community Helper Week

Officer Debbie visited and told us how to keep safe.
Community Helper Week

We went on a field trip to Tanaka Farm.
Literature Week

We read about summer fruits and vegetables.
Literature Week

Now we see a real farm like the one in our book.
Literature Week

We tasted corn, zucchini, tomatoes and carrots.
Literature Week

Then we learned all about watermelons.
Literature Week

Our guide told us how watermelons grow.
Literature Week

We sat on hay bales and listened and tasted.
Literature Week

We tasted yellow and red watermelon and cantelope.
Literature Week

We looked for our own watermelons.
Literature Week

They were easy to find.
Literature Week

We all got to take watermelons home.
Literature Week

We read "Harry, the Dirty Dog."
Literature Week

We made clean and dirty Harrys.
Literature Week

We read "If You Give a Pig a Pancake."
Literature Week

We made our own pancakes.
Literature Week

The pancakes are cooking.
Literature Week

They'll be ready to eat, soon.
Literature Week

We had pancakes for snack.
Literature Week

We read "The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear."
Literature Week

We made paper strawberries and cut them to share.
Literature Week

We read "Andrew's Loose Tooth."
Literature Week

We made Tooth Fairy pouches.
Literature Week

We read "The Doorbell Rang."
Literature Week

We made oatmeal cookies, like in the book.
Literature Week

We made little balls from the cookie dough.
Literature Week

We made paper cookies, too.
Literature Week

Then we made an addition game with the cookies.
Literature Week

We made dinosaur diaramas.
Dinosaur Week

I like shaking hands with the Tyranosaurus Rex.
Dinosaur Week

We made dinosaur eggs out of clay.
Dinosaur Week

We made dinosaur footprints.
Dinoasaur Week

We learned how fossils are formed.
Dinosaur Week

We made our own fossils with leaves.
Dinosaur Week

It looks almost like a real fossil!
Dinosaur Week

We made paper mache dinosaur eggs.
Dinosaur Week

We painted the eggs.
Dinosaur Week

We'll take them home and watch them hatch.
Dinosaur Week

We made dinosaur puppets......
Dinosaur Week

and clay meat and plant-eating dinosaur teeth.
Dinosaur Week

Then we cut out the bodies for stegasaurses.
Dinosaur Week

We're cutting out their tails.
Dinosaur Week

I'm gluing toes on the stegasaurus' feet.
Dinosaur Week

My stegasourus needs an eye.
Dinoasur Week

Now they get to come home with us.
Dinosaur Week

We're building a volcano in the sand area.
Dinosaur Week

The teacher pours some vinegar on the baking soda.
Dinosaur Week

Now we watch the volcano erupt.
Dinosaur Week

It's bubbling down the side of the volcano.
Dinosaur Week

We're picking chips out of cookies.
Dinosaur Week

This is how fossil hunters pick out dinosaur bones.
Dinosaur Week

But we get to eat them when we're done.
Dinosaur Week

We're making mud (chocolate pudding).
Dinosaur Week

The mud will be at the base of our volcanoes.
Dinosaur Week

We have to crush cookies for the dirt.
Dinosaur Week

Now we sprinkle the dirt on the volcano's base.
Dinosaur Week

Strawberry jam is the lava pouring out....
Dinosaur Week

....and some whipped cream for the smoke.
Dinosaur Week

Yum, best volcanoes ever!
Dinosaur Week

We made flying pteradactyls.
Dinosaur Week

We learned about sea stars.
Beach Week

We painted our own sea stars.
Beach week

We sewed the sea stars.
Beach Week

We made sand castles......
Beach Week

...and the sprinkled sand all over them.
Beach Week

We made jelly fish.
Beach Week

They are very squiggly.
Beach Week

We made jelly fish from paper plates.
Beach Week

We painted fish for an aquarium.
Beach Week

Then we painted the water for our aquariums.
Beach Week

Look at our wonderful aquarium.
Beach Week

We made beach collages.
Beach Week

We started with plaster of Paris.
Beach Week

Then we decorated with sea glass and shells.
Beach Week

They're ready to take home.
Beach Week

We now have portable beaches.
Beach Week

We stuffed our great white sharks.
Beach Week

I'm taking my pet shark home.
Beach Week

We ate smores on the last day of summer school.
Beach Week

These are sticky, gooey......
Beach Week

....and yummy!
Beach Week
July, 2011

Ready for Water Day!
Water Day

Water Day

Water Day

Splashing down the water slide.
Water Day

This is slippery.
Water Day

Fun at the water table.
Water Day

Look at these bubbles.
Water Day

We opened a car wash.
Water Day

Washing cars.
Water Day

This is hard work but someone's gotta do it.
Water Day

Water Day

Painting with wet chalk is fun.
Water Day

It wouldn't be summer without the popsicles.
Water Day

I'm making a wind sock.
Independence Week

Our wind socks are ready to hang up at home.
Independence Week

We're proud of our wind socks.
Independence Week

We made a beautiful flag with handprints and stars
Independence Week

I'm painting a star magnet for the 4th of July.
Independence Week

Cutting up strawberries for a red, white and blue snack.
Independence Week

I'm painting a self-portrait.
All About Me Week

All About Me Week

There's my head.
All About Me Week

Our favorite color chart.
All About Me Week

We traced out each other's bodies.
All About Me Week

I'm making my name in colored macaroni.
All About Me Week

Mine is lots of work; I have a very long name.
All About Me Week

Our name plates are ready to take home.
All About Me Week

We're making books about ourselves.
All About Me Week

I'm making my house for my book.
All About Me Week

I'm making a birthday cake for my book.
All About Me Week

I'm gluing candles to show how old I am.
All About Me Week

This page will say, "I'm 4 years old."
All About Me Week

I'm going to read this book to my family at home.
All About Me Week

We made faces on rice cakes.
Cooking Week

We watched corn pop.
Cooking Week

We made batter for our French toast.
Cooking Week

Mixing the batter.
Cooking Week

Adding cinnamon to the batter.
Cooking Week

Dipping the bread in the batter.
Cooking Week

Now for the best part.
Cooking Week

We cut up bananas for a smoothie.
Cooking Week

More bananas.
Cooking Week

Now, everything gets blended.
Cooking Week

We made faces on our pineapple with yogurt and raisins.
Cooking Week

Pineapple faces are delicious!
Cooking Week

We cut fruit for a fruit salad.
Cooking Week

We, each, made our own salad.
Cooking Week

Yum!
Cooking Week

We shook bread dough in cinnamon and sugar...
Cooking Week

...and made monkey bread!
Cooking Week

Yum!
Cooking Week

Utensil printing.
Art Museum Week

Drawing with oil pastels.
Art Museum Week

We tied handkerchiefs with rubber bands.
Art Museum Week

We dyed the handkerchiefs.
Art Museum Week

Our tie-dyed creations.
Art Museum Week

Shaking up the marbles in paint for.....
Art Museum Week

....marble painting.
Art Museum Week

I'm making a beautiful collage.
Art Museum Week

Creating collages.
Art Museum Week

We're making clay sculptures.
Art Museum Week

This clay is squishy.
Art Museum Week

I painted my sculpture.
Art Museum Week

Mine will be very colorful.
Art Museum Week

We learned a technique called marbelizing.
Art Museum Week

We finger painted on tables and made prints.
Art Museum Week

We painted over crayon for resist paintings.
Art Museum Week

Resist painting.
Art Museum Week

We painted bubble wrap to make bubble prints.
Art Museum Week

Bubble painting.
Art Museum Week

Posing in front of our collages and marbelizing.
Art Museum Week

We made prints with real printer's tools.
Art Museum Week

Our abstarct sculptures are ready to take home.
Art Museum Week

We cut up vegetables for chicken soup.
Shabbat Week

It takes a lot of strength to cut these carrots!
Shabbat Week

Now we roll the matzah balls.
Shabbat Week

This is the best chicken soup, ever.
Shabbat Week

Yum.
Shabbat Week

We're braiding the challah.
Shabbat Week

Look at our beautiful challahs.
Shabbat Week

We're painting clay candlesticks.
Shabbat Week

We're making our candlesticks beautiful.
Shabbat Week

I'm painting a kiddush cup for my Shabbat book.
Shabbat Week

We're playing Shabbat in our calssroom.
Shabbat Week

Now the challah for my Shabbat book.
Shabbat Week

A kiddush cup to use on Friday nights.
Shabbat Week

I'm very careful with my kiddush cup.
Shabbat Week
June, 2011

I painted a 1.
2-year-old class

I glued a sun on my 1.
2-year-old class

I counted 2 kites for my 2.
2-year-old class

I wanted my 3 to be blue.
2-year-old class

Four flowers for my number 4.
2-year-old class

I counted five balloons for my number 5.
2-year-old class

Counting bear cookies to put in the numbered lids.
2-year-old class

Counting Teddy Grahams was fun.
2-year-old class

I couldn't wait to eat mine after counting.
2-year-old class

I painted a long animal train.
2-year-old class

Then I counted animals for each car.
2-year-old class

Counting again to make sure it's right number.
2-year-old class

I counted gumballs for my 4 gumball machine.
2-year-old class

I picked out two gumballs to glue.
2-year-old class

I'm going to read this book when I get home.
2-year-old class

We learned about our stomachs.
3-year-old class

We made milkshakes in blenders.
3-year-old class

Our stomachs mix food like a blender.
3-year-old class

A delicious way to learn about our stomachs.
3-year-old class

Yum!
3-year-old class

Milkshakes for everyone!
3-year-old class

Then we learned about our intestines.
3-year-old class

We gave our bodies some finishing touches.
3-year-old class

We glued our organs onto the back of our bodies.
3-year-old class

Finally our bodies are ready to take home.
3-year-old class

Here are all my organs.
3-year-old class

Our bodies are beautiful.
3-year-old class

That was a fun science unit!
3-year-old class

We painted yo-yos for Y week.
3-year-old class

Our yo-yos are very colorful.
3-year-old class

I carefully painted every part of mine.
3-year-old class

My yo-yo is ready to spin.
3-year-old class

We painted zeros for Z week.
3-year-old class

I used all the colors for my zero.
3-year-old class

We painted our zeros yellow.
3-year-old class

We finished our alphabet books.
3-year-old class

They'll be fun to read at home.
3-year-olds class

We worked on these books all year.
3-year-old class

We're going to read them to our families.
3-year-old class

We're so proud of our alphabet books.
3-year-old class

We painted frames for Father's Day gifts.
3-year-old class

Then we collaged on the frames.
3-year-old class

I worked hard to make my frame beautiful.
3-year-old class

Now our pictures are in the frames.
3-year-old class

Our dads will love these gifts!
3-year-old class

We made cards for our dads, too.
3-year-old class

Our last week of school was fun.
Outdoor Craft Day

We made necklaces, outside.
Outdoor Craft Day

We strung lots of different beads.
Ourdoor Craft Day

My necklace will be beutiful.
Outdoor Craft Day

I'm stringing lots of beads on my necklace.
Outdoor Craft Day

I painted with liquid watercolor.
Outdoor Craft Day

There was lots to choose from on the collage table.
Outdoor Craft Day

My collage will be beautiful.
Outdoor Craft Day

We're choosing the colorful animals for our collage.
Outdoor Craft Day

The watercolor table is fun.
Outdoor Craft Day

We love to paint.
Outdoor Craft Day

Painting with friends in the play yard.
Outdoor Craft Day
May, 2011

We sang at the Mother's Day Tea.
Mother's Day Tea

We practiced Mother's Day songs to sing to our moms.
Mother's Day Tea

Our moms loved our concert.
Mother's Day Tea

After the concert, we gave our moms presents.
Mother's Day Tea

We all shared a delicious breakfast.
Mother's Day Tea

It's fun when we all get together.
Mother's Day Tea

We made Mother's Day cards also.
Mother's Day Tea

We practiced our fine motor skills.
2-year-old class

I used my fingers to pinch clothespins.
2-year-old class

I strengthened my pincer grip with this activity.
2-year-old class

I used tongs to grasp cotton balls.
2-year-old class

We read lots of books about farm animals.
2-year-old class

We learned about cows and milking cows.
2-year-old class

We practiced milking a cow with a rubber glove.
2-year-old class

It's harder than it looks.
2-year-old class

We made farm animals out of paper plates.
2-year-old class

I liked painting my pig pink.
2-year-old class

I gave my cow lots of spots.
2-year-old class

Then we learned about zoo animals.
2-year-old class

I gave my alligator lots of green scales.
2-year-old class

I painted my elephant grey.
2-year-old class

We started a unit on trasportation.
2-year-old class

We created volcanoes out of clay for V week.
3-year-old class

We learned about how volcanoes form.
3-year-old class

We learned about molten rock under the earth.
3-year-old class

Then we painted our volcanoes.
3-year-old class

I made mine very colorful.
3-year-old class

We put baking soda and vinegar into our volcanoes.
3-year-old class

Then we watched them erupt.
3-year-old class

I made a beautiful vase for my V page.
3-year-old class

We painted watermelon slices for W week.
3-year-old class

Then we ate juicy watermelon.
3-year-old class

We guessed the number of seeds in our slices.
3-year-old class

Then we glued the seeds and counted them.
3-year-old class

I had lots of seeds to glue.
3-year-old class

I wondered if my guess was close.
3-year-old class

My slice looked good enough to eat.
3-year-old class

My estimate was close.
3-year-old class

W week was delicious.
3-year-old class

Our watermelons were ready to take home.
3-year-old class

We made W pages for our alphabet books.
3-year-old class

I brought a whale to share for W week.
3-year-old class

I brought water and a wallet.
3-year-old class

I brought a witch hat with webs on it.
3-year-old class

We started a new science unit: our bodies.
3-year ols class

We learned about the two layers of skin.
3-year-old class

We painted skin on our paper bodies.
3-year-old class

We learned how our skin protects us.
3-year-old class

Then we started painting on our clothes.
3-year-old class

I want blue shoes.
3-year-old class

I want a red shirt.
3-year-old class

Purple shoes go with my dress.
3-year-old class

We learned about the three parts of our brains.
3-year-old class

We made memory cards for a memory game.
3-year-old class

We used our cerebrums to play the game.
3-year-old class

We learned about our hearts.
3-year-ols class

We learned about blood. We made plasma.
3-year-old class

We made red blood cells.
3-year-old class

We mixed Cheerios with red food coloring.
3-year-old class

Then we mixed the red blood cells into the plasma.
3-year-old class

We added mini marshmallows for white blood cells.
3-year-old class

Then we mixed everything together.
3-year-old class

We mixed in platelets so our blood could clot.
3-year-old class

We brought home containers to show our families.
3-year-old class

We painted hearts for our bodies.
3-year-old class

We celebrated Cinco De Mayo with a Mexican lunch.
Pre-K class

We took turns swinging at the pinanta.
Pre-K class

We worked on number sets in our math books.
Pre-K class

We added sets of numbers together to get a sum.
Pre-K class

We read along with the tape at our listening table.
Pre-K class

We track the words in our books.
Pre-K class

We all read "Crocodiles Needs Kisses, Too."
Pre-K class

We made ocean jello.
Pre-K class

We submerged Swedish fish into our ocean cups.
Pre-K class

We wrote in our journals.
Pre-K class

We sound out the words for our journals.
Pre-K class

We illustrated our stories in our journals.
Pre-K class

We pattened on our W's with worms and whales.
Pre-K class

We learned all about whales.
Pre-K class

We painted orca whales.
Pre-K class

All my whale needs is some sharp teeth.
Pre-K class

We had a guest reader visit and share a fish tale.
Pre-K class

We learned about octopi, also.
Pre-K class
April, 2011

We learned about spring and spring colors.
2-year-old class

I'm making a spring collage.
2-year-old class

I'm using lots of pastel colors.
2-year-old class

I want to cover my page with spring colors.
2-year-old class

We learned about dirt and mud for spring planting.
2-year-old class

I'm mixing red, yellow and green to make brown.
2-year-old class

We learned about what plants need to grow.
2-year-old class

We planted lima beans.
2-year-old class

Our plants need water to grow.
2-year-old class

My plant is getting lots of sun.
2-year-old class

I like using the watering can.
2-year-old class

We learned about bumble bees and made our own.
2-year-old class

I'm working on a pre-writing and drawing activity.
2-year-old class

I'm making a blanket for baby Moses for Passover.
2-year-old class

We made seder plates for our Passover tables.
2-year-old class

We made cups for Elijah.
2-year-old class

I made an afikomen cover with frogs.
2-year-old class

My seder plate is all ready for Passover.
2-year-old class

I'm making an afikoman cover with stamps.
3-year-old class

I like using the gold paint for my cover.
3-year-old class

I want my afikoman cover to be colorful.
3-year-old class

We made Elijah cups for the seder table.
3-year-old class

I'm making a Rainbow Fish for R week.
3-year-old class

Our Rainbow Fish are finished. We loved the book.
3-year-old class

Laurie Schneider brought Fred the rabbit to visit.
3-year-old class

R week is fun when a real rabbit comes to school.
3-year-old class

We learned about squirrels for S week.
3-year-old class

I cutting out my squirrel so I can paint it.
3-year-old class

I'm giving my squirrel a bushy tail.
3-year-old class

Squirrels do so many things with their tails.
3-year-old class

Our squirrels are finished.
3-year-old class

We, each, told a story about our squirrel.
3-year-old class

I brought my socks for S week.
3-year-old class

I brought a squiggly snake for S week.
3-year-old class

We're cutting out telephones for T week.
3-year-old class

We're gluing the numbers on our telephones.
3-year-old class

I'm gluing my telephone number onto my phone.
3-year-old class

We're learning about the 4 seasons.
3-year-old class

We're painting flowers for our Spring page.
3-year-old class

We're making the spring page for our 4 seasons book.
3-year-old class

I'm gluing the grass on my spring page.
3-year-old class

I'm cutting the leaves for my flowers.
3-year-old class

I'm gluing the flowers on my page.
3-year-old class

I'm painting fall leaves for my fall page.
3-year-old class

My fall leaves are beautiful.
3-year-old

My leaves look like they fell off a tree.
3-year-old class

We learned that the change in season makes the leaves turn color.
3-year-old class

We're making our winter pages for our books.
3-year-old class

We learned about how snowflakes are formed
3-year-old class

I'm making a blizzard!
3-year-old class

I want the big snowflakes for my page.
3-year-old class

I'm making a flower for my Mother's Day card.
3-year-old class

We went to Strawberry Fields at Tanaka Farm.
3-year-old class

We took a wagon ride and tasted lots of fresh vegetables.
3-year-old class

Yum, the lettuce is so crunchy.
3-year-old class

Different kinds of lettuce grow at the farm.
3-year-old class

I'm not sure about this cilantro.
3-year-old class

The carrots are delicious.
3-year-old class

We love carrots straight form the ground.
3-year-old class

Spinach and green onions make an interesting snack.
3-year-old class

Our guide shows us how bananas grow.
3-year-old class

We're on our way to the strawberries, now.
3-year-old class

April's class at Tanaka Farm.
Pre-Kindergarten class

We painted strawberries on our T-shirts for the trip.
Pre-K class

Yum, I found the perfect strawberry!
Pre-K class

We had fun at Tanaka Farm.
Pre-K class

We read a rhyming book about dust bunnies.
Pre-K class

We're blowing dust bunnies around the class.
Pre-K class

We took all our vegetables from the farm and made vegetable soup.
Pre-K class

Our vegetable soup looks delicious.
Pre-K class

This is the best part of making vegetable soup!
Pre-K class

We're learning about farm animals this month.
Pre-K class

We went to Centenial Farm to see the animals up close.
Pre-K class

This cow is even better than the paper ones we made.
Pre-K class

Now we see where milk really comes from.
Pre-K class

We got to see goats at the farm.
Pre-K class

Our paper pigs at school don't take naps.
Pre-K class

These sheep are fluffy like the ones we made at school.
Pre-K class

Baby chicks are fun to watch.
Pre-K class

Here's the Mama Hen.
Pre-K class

We dressed as slaves for Family Passover Night.
Family Passover Night

A rousing chorus of Dayanu.
Family Passover Night

We sing about baby Moses in the River Nile.
Family Passover Night

We tell the story of King Pharoh and the slaves.
Family Passover Night

We sing about the Hebrews wanting to be free.
Family Passover Night

We tell about the ten plagues.
Family Passover Night

We sing about Moses leading us out of Egypt.
Family Passover Night

Finally, the Hebrews are free.
Family Passover Night

Moses
Family Passover Night

Moses leads us through the Red Sea.
Family Passover Night
March, 2011

We're learning about insects.
2-year-old class

We created ladybugs.
2-year-old class

These are real ladybugs.
2-year-old class

Ladybugs are crawling on my hand.
2-year-old class

We let the ladybugs go in our garden.
2-year-old class

Ladybugs are crawling up my sleeve.
2-year-old class

We're making pudding for "worms in mud."
2-year-old class

Yum.
2-year-old class

We love worms in mud.
2-year-old class

Best mud, ever!
2-year-old class

It's Dr. Suess Week. We read "The Foot Book."
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We're making footprints like those in the book.
2-year-old class

We're learning about rainbows
2-year-old class

We get to eat a rainbow.
2-year-old class

This is the fruitiest rainbow I ever tasted.
2-year-old class

We're making hamantashen for Purim.
2-year-old class

I'm pinching mine into a triangle.
2-year-old class

We made noisy groggers for Purim.
2-year-old class

Here's my Purim mask.
2-year-old class

Now, you can't tell who I am.
2-year-old class

We finished our plant books.
3-year-old class

We learned about octopuses for O week.
3-year-old class

We learned how octopuses get around.
3-year-old class

We learned that they use their beaks to eat.
3-year-old class

We brought popcorn and a puppy for P week.
3-year-old class

I put a potato in my P bag.
3-year-old class

We brought pencils, a Potato Head and a puppy.
3-year-old class

We made yummy pizza for P week.
3-year-old class

I love our pizza.
3-year-old class

Yum.
3-year-old class

Now we're learning about the four seasons.
3-year-old class

We're making the spring page for our new books.
3-year-old class

My spring tree needs lots of flower buds.
3-year-old class

We're making bird feeders for the spring.
3-year-old class

I'm mixing bird seed with sunflower seed butter.
3-year-old class

This takes lots of mixing.
3-year-old class

We made bird feeders out of milk cartons.
3-year-old class

We're filling the cartons with the seed mixture.
3-year-old class

We created very silly Purim masks.
3-year-old class

We dressed in costumes for Purim.
3-year-old class

It's the hundredth day of school!
Pre-K class

I'm stamping in my "100 Book."
Pre-K class

I'm stamping flowers on this page.
Pre-K class

I'm making 10 groups of 10 crayons.
Pre-K class

I'm making 10 rows of 10 cotton balls.
Pre-K class

I'm making 10 rows of 10 rocks.
Pre-K class

My 100 page is rows of shapes.
Pre-K class

I'm using olive slices in my graph.
Pre-K class

I'm using shells for my 100 page.
Pre-K class

I counted 10 bunches of 10 paper clips.
Pre-K class

We each brought a bag of 100 snacks to school.
Pre-K class

We're making squirmy caterpillars.
Pre-K class

Mine's almost ready to be a chrysalis.
Pre-K class

I'm getting wrapped in a cocoon.
Pre-K class

I'm almost a complete chrysalis.
Pre-K class

I burst out of the cocoon.
Pre-K class

Almost all out.
Pre-K class

I'm almost ready to fly.
Pre-K class

I must be a butterfly, now!
Pre-K class

We won awards for knowing all 60 sight words.
Pre-K class

I know all my high frequency words!
Pre-K class

I'm so proud of myself!
Pre-K class

We had a cupcake party to celebrate.
Pre-K class

We took a field trip to El Dorado Nature Center.
Pre-K class

We saw turtles and frogs in the lake, under the bridge.
Pre-K class

We saw lots of small animals and insects.
Pre-K class

There's a tarantula in this terrarium!
Pre-K class

There were lots of things to explore in the museum.
Pre-K class

I got to see a real jaw bone.
Pre-K class

Our class at the Nature Center
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Vanessa dressed as Foofa for Purim
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We're dressed for our Purim Parade.
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We're ready for the parade.
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Off we parade to the Fire Station.
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I have a bag of hamantashen for the firemen.
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We're in the firehouse.
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The firemen love our costumes.
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Foofa and Tigger love Purim.
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The fire fighter showed us the fire engine.
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She told us about calling 911.
Purim

Parading is great.
Purim

The fireman showed us how he dresses to fight fires.
Purim

We all wanted to talk to the fireman.
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The fireman is so happy we celebrated Purim with him.
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We're princesses for Purim.
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We got to sit on the fire engine.
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We're tired from all this parading.
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We came back to school to sing Purim songs.
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Singing Purim songs with friends is fun.
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February, 2011

We're making brownies.
2-year-old class

The brownies are a square shape.
2-year-old class

We're making round pizzas.
2-year-old class

I like lots of sauce.
2-year-old class

Two circles are better than one.
2-year-old class

We made crescent turkey sandwiches
2-year-old class

Yum..heart shaped lollipops!
2-year-old class

I'm cutting triange quesadillas.
2-year-old class

Now for some star-shaped cookies.
2-year-old class

The cookies need frosting.
2-year-old class

Eating shapes is yummy.
2-year-old class

This is the circle page for my shape book.
2-year-old class

Here's my star page.
2-year-old class

Now the square page.
2-year-old class

I made a tiger out of rectangles.
2-year-old class

My tiger is funny.
2-year-old class

I'm making the cover for my shape book.
2-year-old class

I want lots of shapes on my cover.
2-year-old class

I'm practicing drawing circles.
2-year-old class

Look how round my circles are.
2-year-old class

I'm using shapes in my playdough.
2-year-old class

We're making orange juice for our picnic.
2-year-old class

We're having a teddy bear picnic.
2-year-old class

My teddy bear likes this picnic.
2-year-old class

I'm sharing my lunch with my special friend.
2-year-old class

We're studying plants.
3-year-old class

The colored water goes up the veins of the celery.
3-year-old class

We planted lima beans in jars.
3-year-old class

My lima bean is growing a root.
3-year-old class

Now, we're planting our beanstalks.
3-year-old class

My bean grew a stem and leaves.
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Look at my big bean plant.
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These plants are reaching up to the sky.
3-year-old class

We painted special pots for our plants.
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We finally get to take them home.
3-year-old class

We're making a plant book.
3-year-old class

I'm gluing roots onto the soil.
3-year-old class

We dissected plants to see their parts.
3-year-old class

We're making strawberry jam for J week.
3-year-old class

We need to mash the strawberries.
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And mash...
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And add lots of sugar.
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Yum...best strawberry jam, ever.
3-year-old class

We're making Chinese fish kites for K week.
3-year-old class

I'm gluing lots of colors on mine.
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I want mine colorful, too.
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Here's my finished kite.
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Isn't mine beautiful?
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We're taking them home today.
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Mine's almost as big as me.
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We're practicing our cutting.
3-year-old class

We're making Chinese lanterns for New Year.
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We're decorating the lanterns.
Pre-K class

We're making fabric Chinese dragons.
Pre-K class

We want our dragons to be beautiful.
Pre-K class

We're having a Chinese feast.
Pre-K class

We're having a Dragon Parade through the yard.
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There's room for all of us under here.
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We're learning about Presidents Day.
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We made coins with the presidents' faces.
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Here's my portrait of Lincoln.
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We practiced "directed drawing."
Pre-K class

We're celebrating Dr. Seuss.
Pre-K class

The eggs need to get scrambled.
Pre-K class

Now, we make them green.
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Now, we cook them.
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And finally, we eat them.
Pre-K class

We love green eggs and (turkey) ham.
Pre-K class
January, 2011

I'm building a tall snowman.
The two-year-old class.

Snowman building is sticky work.
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Eating is easier than building.
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The best part is eating the snowman.
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This snowman tastes good.
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I'm making a snowman with cotton balls.
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We made a snowman from frozen water ballons.
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He needs a nose.
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We're painting with ice and powdered paint.
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Ice painting.
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Shaved ice is yummy.
2-year-old class

I'm making snowflakes with bell pepppers.
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Bell pepper printing.
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We're covering our pinecones with snow.
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Winter pinecones.
2-year-old class

This snow feels real. It's even cold.
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We love the feel of snow.
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We made snow with shaving cream.
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This is gooey snow.
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Even our animals like the snow.
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We learned all about elephants for E week.
The three-year-old class.

Painting elephant puppets is fun.
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I'm carefully painting his trunk.
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My elephant needs eyes..
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We're finishing our elephant puppets.
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My elephant puppet is ready to go home with me.
3-year-old class

We're learning all about fish for F week.
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I'm painting my fish.
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I want my fish yellow.
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I'm using all the colors for my fish.
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I want a red fish.
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My fish is ready to print.
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My fish print is beautiful!
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We're taking home our fish prints.
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We're making gingerbread men for G week.
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They need lots of buttons.
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I found the escaped gingerbread man.
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I found him on the bookshelf.
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Yaaah...we get to eat it after lunch.
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We made houses for H week. They have our addresses on them.
3-year-old class

We're learning about weather and making stratus clouds.
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These are fluffy cumulus clouds.
3-year-old class

Nimbus clouds bring rain.
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Our cumulus and stratus clouds.
3-year-old class

We made pinwheels to see the wind.
3-year-old class

I can make my own wind.
3-year-old class

We're learning about rain and rainbows.
3-year-old class

We're making sunprints.
3-year-old class

I'm choosing the items I want to print.
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I'm printing a stencil.
3-year-old class

A sun print of a carrot.
3-year-old class

We're making weather charts.
3-year-old class

I want my sun very bright.
3-year-old class

I'm cutting out clouds for my weather chart.
3-year-old class

I'm adding the sun to my weather chart.
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We're taking home our weather charts.
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Look at our snowmen.
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We're so proud of how well we decorated our snowmen.
Pre-K class

It's raining snowballs!
Pre-K class

It's snowing all over our room.
Pre-K class

Snow everywhere!
Pre-K class

We're making snowball cupcakes.
Pre-K Class

The batter needs some baking powder.
Pre-K class

Now the snow frosting.
Pre-K class

We went on a field trip to the skating rink.
Pre-K class

I can ice skate!
Pre-K class

This ice is slippery.
Pre-K class

What a fun field trip.
Pre-K class

We're making snow cones.
Pre-K class

We put ice in the machine to get crushed.
Pre-K class

Yum!
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We're learning about musical instruments.
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Our class is a band.
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We're taking our show on the road.
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We're patterning with mice on our M's.
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I made an ABC pattern on my M.
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We're working on our math pages.
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We're learning new math patterns.
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We're coloring the shapes to fit the pattern.
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We're sounding out words for our journals.
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We're making up stories for our journals.
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Now we illustrate our stories.
Pre-K class
November and December at the ECLC

We're painting our paper mache ants.
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My paper mache ant has a head, thorax and abdomen.
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They can even walk with a little help.
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I'm working on my ant wheel.
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I'm cutting out the ant eggs for my ant wheel.
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We made ant wheels with the ant's life cycle.
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We made mini apple pies for A week.
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Yum...these pies are delicious.
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I'm drawing people in my car for C week.
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Stringing beads to encouage our fine motor skills.
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We're reading our turkey color books.
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I'm making my "Thankful Book" for Thanksgiving.
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We're making our own cobs of corn.
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The Native American taught the Pilgrims about corn.
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Mixing the corn muffin batter.
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It needs lots of mixing.
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Yum...honey corn muffins!
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We're painting Native American symbols on our teepee.
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We're celebrating Thanksgiving.
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We patterned the feathers for our turkeys.
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We made handprint turkeys for Thanksgiving.
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We're spinning the dreidel.
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Hanukkah latkes and apple sauce...a great combination.
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Latkes taste great!
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We're making Hanukkah cookies to share with Congregation Sholom at Leisure World.
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We're making wrapping paper for our Hanukkah gifts to give to our families.
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Singing for our families.
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Family Hanukkah Night
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Miss April's class.
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Rabbi Myers leads us in song.
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Rabbi Myers tells the Hanukkah story
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Rabbi Myers lights the Hanukkah candles.
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We made trays for our families for Hanukkah.
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Our Hanukkah concert at Leisure World.
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The Congregation's president joins the fun.
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The congregants at Leisure World loved chatting with us.
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"Thank you for these delicious cookies."
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Fall at the ECLC

We're sharing snack in the sukkah for Sukkot.
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We all got a chance to shake the lulav.
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We met in the Sanctuary for Simchat Torah.
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Rabbi Myers shows us the first Hebrew words in the Torah.
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The two-year-old class read "Go Away Green Monster." We frosted a green monster cake.
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We put the finishing touches on our monster cake.
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Baking monster cakes is fun!
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This is the best monster I've ever tasted!
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We also made paper monsters.
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Look at my big owl.
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The three-year-old class studied our five senses. We're smelling scented candles.
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We spent five weeks making five senses books.
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The three-year-olds are also learning numbers.
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We're painting sevens for our 7 page.
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I'm counting 7 jewels for my 7 page.
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I'm rolling out the clay for a number magnet.
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I'm painting my magnet.
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We're on a new science unit: Insects! We're making the ant's body parts out of foil.
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We paper mache the ant's head.
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Now it's time to paper mache the ant's thorax.
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Puzzles are fun!
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Dancing with scarves is great exercise on a rainy day.
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The Pre-Kindergarten class learns handwriting.
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We play with the shapes that make our letters.
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The Pre-K's at the listening table.
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This is the really good part of the story.
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We're mixing the apples for apple pie.
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Look at our pies!
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Yum!
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Hula hoop math is so much fun.
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We made scarecrows and scared crows.
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We dug out the seeds of our pumpkins and then made pies from them.
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We'll use this pumpkin for our pie.
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April's class went pumpkin bowling

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Getting ready to bowl.

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No gutter ball here!

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Not what I had hoped for.

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What's my strategy?

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Wow! Those squash went down.

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Will I get a strike?

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Yaaah!

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Our Afternoon Funtimes

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Monday Funtime: Tot Tumbling

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We crab crawl along the floor.

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Look at me balance.

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I can even balance sideways.

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My best bear crawl.

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Here I am baby crawling through the tunnel.

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Wednesday Funtime: Fun with Spanish

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Color beanbag toss

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How do you say red in Spanish?

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An amarillo beanbag

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I'm throwing the rojo beanbag.

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A verde beanbag!

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A beanbag in cafe.

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Friday Funtime: Playball

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We're throwing our fish into the water.

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We're learning different ways to kick a ball.

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Tanaka Farms 2010

I found the perfect pumpkin!
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The Three Musketeers
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The wagon ride to the petting zoo.
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We picked carrots and green beans.
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We love goats.
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These sheep are funny.
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Preschool Tanaka Farms Pumpkin Field Trip038
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Pumpkin picking!
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Fall is fun in the 2 year old class

We're making green apples....they taste even better than they look.
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Apple printing
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Paper bag apples for our apple tree.
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Mmmm...yellow apples.
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Can't leave out the red apples!
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Beautiful fall leaves.
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We're making pumpkin bread pudding...yum.
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Pumpkin painting with real pumpkins.
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Let's get those pumpkin seeds.
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Yes, it's really finger paint.
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May, 2011

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