Outside water play is coming to an end!

In this clip, I had to share how great the toddlers are with their manners and how great Lola is sharing her food. This is with anyone that brings food into the classroom, including teachers!

Art and sensory has been fun this week! Miss Beth told me that the toddlers had fun playing in the corn in the sensory table on Monday. We used bingo dabbers on paper, using stamping pads, and on Friday we will finger paint with ketchup and mustard. 

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Quiet day with our young toddlers...

Vinnie, Jack and Mason will soon be in the 2's classroom and oh how I will miss them being in my classroom. I know they have to move up because they are getting too big and a little to possessive of the younger toddlers, but it's always still sad to see them go! I do forget how the little ones are so quiet just exploring every part of the classroom, and just watching them play with toys or with each other is just really fun to watch them interact. 

What better way to introduce finger paints than little drops of paint on their papers. This next month we will be painting with edible paints as some of the toddlers don't quite get the concept and of course everything goes straight into their mouths. I am quite proud of the little ones, they don't eat books so that's a huge plus!

However the toddlers are great about climbing on the climbers and hiding underneath things!

This afternoon we tried milking the cows with gloves filled with water, I poked little holes in them. They really liked holding onto them, putting them in their mouth to get the water out and transferring them in and out of the box. They didn't quite get the concept of the process, but I had fun watching them explore with the gloves.

Our newest little couple, sneaking kisses on the climber!

I had to share this clip because it's quite funny! Kai was very much into his teddy bears today. He loved playing with the peek-a-boo bear, but when he accidentally pressed his foot the bear started talking to him. Lets just say Kai isn't friends with that bear when he speaks. The funny part is that Kai loves the dancing singing chicken, which I don't get! 

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Summer is coming to an end!

You know Summer is finally coming to an end when the fair starts or you find yourself buying last minute school supplies. My mom and sister are both kindergarten teachers in ankeny so lately that's all I have been hearing about them getting back into routine when I go over to their houses. My sister just transferred to the new school in ankeny, don't quote me but I think it's rock creek, it's a huge school and her classroom is quite nice!

Matthew West and Newsboys made it to the Iowa State Fair this year! 

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Of course you couldn't go to the fair and not take any pictures of the animals!

Llama Mama does exists! 

We painted with red paint this week. This month is all about farm animals so we will be doing lots of activities including painting red barns, and stamping with animals and even looking at our new real life farm animal book that I created at CVS! 

What better way to play outside than in the water table filled with last night's rain. The toddlers got a little ahead of me while we were outside I was wiping down the playground with a towel so we wouldn't get all wet I guess I forgot to dump out the water table. So we just decided to get wet than dry out our clothes, they had a lot of fun playing in it! 

Our art from this week!

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Celebrating Mason's Second Birthday!

Today we celebrated Mason's 2nd Birthday! We sang happy birthday to him before we had our cupcakes. Sorry my bad singing, I thought the others would join in. Mason wasn't quite sure what to think, he was a little off today.

Mason was very excited about his tractor cupcakes, Vinnie and Jack thanked him several times it was pretty cute! They were very yummy cupcakes!!!

Mason was our little shadow today! A balloon popped this morning that wasn't even near Mason and after that he wanted nothing to do with the balloons. He played with them for a little bit after snack time then he found a safe place to hide!

Highlight of the day was our sticker party!!!

We love stickers! Mason brought in some tractor stickers to share with his friends. They were a huge hit with his buddies. 

So I bought these noise makers at the Dollar Tree last night, apparently these were more for show because they did not work when we blew them. The toddlers did try really hard to make them work though.

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My Day Off plus happiness and smiles!!!

I got called into work this morning to see if I could fill in for a little bit. Honestly I didn't sleep well the night before and I didn't want to work I just wanted to sleep in, but I decided I should go in and help out. Well when I got to my classroom and opened the door I was bombarded with huge hugs and voices screaming my name. So all in all it was worth coming into work. All morning I heard my name over and over again with smiles and lots of cuddles. Those special moments like that just makes me love my job even more!

Tomorrow we are celebrating Mason's 2nd Birthday! He wasn't too thrilled about taking his Birthday hat pictures after nap time today. Hopefully he will like them tomorrow! 

What better way to get out all of our energy is to run on the hill. I love seeing their little feet move so fast, the 2's joined us for a down hill race!

So it seems like lately when we go to fix the little girls hair that has fallen out after nap time or when we come in from outside that the little boys in our classroom also want there hair done too. So here we have it, Rolen and Jack that sat as we did their hair! 

Some of our happy little guys today!!!

What better way to learn about Farm Animals is watching Old McDonald's Farm! We asked them how to say the words of the animals and we also made the sounds to each animal. 

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