A Peek At Our Week: April 22-26

Tuesday: playing in the snow in the Children's Park

Friday: picnic in the llama pasture...what a week!

In honor of Earth Day, the Pony Friends cleaned up litter along the path

Charlie and his sister built a "Robot Teddy Bear" (what a great compromise!)  using items from their recycling bin

On Friday we had recycle relays up and down the llama pasture hill

Dagny invited her grandparents and mom to school to visit on Monday

Austin turned 5 this week! 

Austin's dad showed us all kinds of fun Mad Science experiments using dry ice

Maddie and Aidan were getting ready to make their grassheads

Makenna filling her nylon with grass seed and wood shavings

Scarlet and Grant painting faces on their grassheads

Sean and Charlie painting

Ethan and his grasshead

Addie gave her grasshead a bath to get it nice and wet. Now  all the little buddies are under a grow light as we wait for them to sprout some hair!

Caroline and her friends mailed the last of the Letters to Loved Ones

In Nature Class the Ponies learned all about frogs

Max moving like a frog

No frogs near the pond yet. We'll keep checking!

Nancy shared her pony pictures from Iowa. Last weekend (and this weekend) she visited her  new granddaughter, Addison. 

Nancy's son with the baby and the pony

Nancy's other granddaughter, Meredith

A Peek At Our Week: April 15-19

Look at all of those colors! Charlie, Grant, Elizabeth and Caitie having fun on Crazy Colors day.

Pajamas & Stuffed Animals Day

We made fruit kababs on Crazy Hair Day

Jonah and his puppies on Dog and Cat Day

Merry showing Elizabeth what her cat face paint looks like in the mirror

Elizabeth painting a dog face on Nancy

So many cats and dogs!

Maddie and Max on Sports Day

Caroline, Austin and Laura

These friends worked on decorating "We Appreciate You" notes for parents

All week the Ponies wrote letters to loved ones. Solomon wrote this letter to his cousins.

Sean wrote to both of his grandmothers

Caroline wrote one of her letters to her cat, Tula

Maddie was all ready to mail this one to Grandma!

Gigi and Lucia playing in the snow on Friday, APRIL 19TH!

Over spring break, both Aidan and Merry went to Florida. Here are some of their pony pictures...

Pancake Parties!

Remember this? After weeks of drilling holes, inserting taps, waiting, collecting buckets of sap, and cooking sap, our Country Day maple syrup was ready to taste! On Wednesday and Thursday this week, the children got to attend our annual Pancake Party. This was the first year the party has been indoors, but it was still lots of fun. We all walked to the office to pick up our pancakes and syrup and then brought them back to our classroom. Everyone enjoyed looking at all of the Week of the Young Child cards that are on display in the office. If you don't get a chance to see them this week they'll also be on display at the Children's Museum on Tuesday night. Here are some photos from the big event!

Elizabeth pointing to her family photo

Max and Sean

Seth serving us a stack of pancakes

Ethan, Solomon, Lucia and Caitie

Bringing the pancakes and syrup back to our classroom

Sean

One word: delicious!