october 26
Sylvie brought a special pumpkin today to show us! We all loved it and had fun holding it. Then, we decided it needed legs :) So, we gathered around the art table while Sylvie glued beans together to make legs. It was very exciting!
A while later, we helped Deidre create a counting game. We colored ten mushrooms stems white, smooshed ten balls of brown dough onto the tops of the stems and then told Deidre which numbers to write below each mushroom. We had fun counting out the corresponding beans to smoosh into the dough. “The mushrooms need water!” “Yeah, so they can grow bigger!” We decided that we needed to add a little bit of water to the mushroom game to help take care of the mushrooms :)
In the park, Rigel and Ridley played tug-of-war with a stick. They laughed a lot while pulling and falling into the grass. We also made tree people in the pine forest. Rigel broke apart a pinecone and used the little scales to make hair on his playdough face. Ridley told us that we can eat pine nuts, which are inside the pinecone. We found lots of sap while making our tree people. It felt very sticky and smelled like oranges! Then, we crumpled up the faces and rolled them into balls, which we stuck onto the ends of sticks and called lollipops. “Everyone put your lollipop in and say cheers!”
Finally, our sundial told us it was time for lunch! While we ate, we talked about how we’re going to be grown-ups one day and then we’ll get to do grown-up things. Sylvie said she is most excited to cook dinner when she’s a grown-up. She’s going to make mac and cheese and challah every night. Rigel is going to make muffins, applesauce and cheese. But the best part about being a grown-up is that you get to have your own keys to open things :)
After lunch, we went on a big adventure across the creek and along a long path lined with tall grass. We found so many different types of mushrooms. Sylvie told us that red mushrooms are poisonous, squirrels carry sickness and you can get chickenpox from chickens :) :) We also saw a woodpecker, but we need to look in our bird book to see which kind it is.
After rest, we ate homemade dried apple chips while we listened to a story called Not All Princesses Dress in Pink. One page showed a picture of a princess in stained, muddy clothes and that surprised us. Who knew princesses liked playing in nature and getting dirty just like us?!