MARCH 2011...

This is outside play...sometimes the importance of gross motor skill is overlooked what with all the VPK standards and school readiness skills that must be taught but this too is as important. Teaching our little ones today the importance of good nutriotion and plenty of movement and exercise is vital to the health of our future!!

We had a birthday....so yes the occasional sewwt is ok...don't worry though our nutritional snack was also given....lol

We had our plant theme this month and boy did we plant. This is a pic of a strawberry plant,onions,potatoes,squash and beans.

 corn is also planted in there...as well as two tomatoe plants

 OH...we had a little green visitor causing a stir....that little leprechaun...he turned our coolwhip green that was to be for our pots o gold cooking activity....then when we went outside he turned our water table water green.....then our pt. co-teacher arrived all blinged out with jewels and a big(catn the hatsize) green hat and crazy green shirt on....she said the leprechaun ran by as she arrived and she tried to grab him but all she caught was his hat and her shirt turned green and she had all the bling on her neck.....lol....SO we thought all was well until we started lunch and out came our cook with green milk......that pesky little guy did it AGAIN....the kids had SOOO much fun.....and yep we did too!

We had a picnic....a stomache virus hit the school and this was a day of only 8 out of 17 kids so we said ...why not have a picnic outside......they had a blast!

This was our last week for yellow so i changed it uo and made a scoop and sift tray...renewed the whole concept and the kids played forever with them!

reptile and amphibian tray..

We even got busy and held a sign that will be going to the people who are in charge of seeing to it that the funding stays or goes for our program......and boy does this sign say it ALL!!!!