Cox Farms Field Trip

You won't have to wonder very hard who took these pictures since most of them have one or more of my kids in them, but there's a few here and there of some other kids. I was really sad that I never got the group picture on the haystacks. :(

Please feel free to email me some of your own pictures (or just make your own post) if you want to show off what a fun time your kids had too.

Gavin (?) on the rope swing (my kids favorite part).

Tara, Matthew, and Kyle

Adam on the second best part of the whole farm ( the super fast slides)

Ellie and her good friend Bradford

Cute little Gwynne dressed to a "T" as usual

What else would you do when you come across a pumpkin colored slugbug in a pumpkin patch? Putting pumpkins on your head only seems like the natural solution (at least for Emma, Kyle, Matthew, Adam, Bradford, and Ellie).

Learning About Rainbows

Learning about rainbows is one of my very favorite lessons of the whole year. In fact my older kids remembered how much fun we had last year and begged to stay home from school to "help" me.

First we read a few books about rainbows from the library including this cute book

which opens up on the last page to a big rainbow!

We made rainbows out of Fruit Loops

Then, we celebrated Eve's 5th birthday with this delicious cream-filled Danish that Eve's mom baked for us. We made tie-dyed t-shirts with all the colors of the rainbowand then saw how rainbows are made when sunlight shines through prisms.The kids LOVED making their own little rainbows.

Then we listened to a couple of fun rainbow songs

and did FREEZE DANCE!
The kids had as much fun as I did!

Helen Keller Preschool Lesson

Today we learned about Helen Keller. We read a book ("Young Helen Keller: Woman of Courage ") all about her and the amazing things she did even though two of her senses didn’t work.

We played a cold/hot game with the blindfold on so they could get a tiny glimpse at what life is like without vision. We did a few of the favorite activities from last time (freeze dance and touching game). The kids finished up their five senses books (they worked really hard on these) and had a wonderful time!