A Great Monday Back

Back From the Holidays
We had a great day today, even with such a long break from school all of our sproutlets had no problem getting right back in the swing of things.
Everyone was in good sprits during outside drop off and was eager to catch up with all their friends.
As soon as we came inside, take our shoes off, wash our hands, and have snack. We had blackberries and bananas, and during our snack period Tristan decided to make a sculpture of his mom out of banana peels. Once we had cleaned up our snack area we moved to the big carpet for show and tell. Our older kids went with miss Ariel to kinderblossom while we split show and tell up into two time periods. The first person to go was Colette, who showed a book about cowboys which seemed to be a big hit with everyone. Next up was Dax who showed his transformer, who's leg unfortunately fell off midway through passing it around, but captivated everyone none the less. Thristan showed off his farmer truck next and was very happy to talk about the duties his farmers have. For the remainder of our inside time we opened up our stations and explored new material that was added this week. At ten forty five he went outside for a little energy expenditure. Tristan and Fax got word of nicks upcoming birthday so Tristan began decorating the dome while Dax started baking birthday cakes made of silica. With lunch time about to start we headed inside. After lunch a good story and a nap, everyone folded up their own nap mats and we had afternoon snack. Leina, Colette and Paige got a little silly with their tortillas and made monster masks with them.
Following snack we finished our second round of show and tell which took longer than the first one, and only had enough time to go over our calendar and weather before we needed to depart the classroom for our outside pick up time.
We had a lot of fun during pick up time. The girls owned a zoo which resided in the playscape. They had a tiger they fed and crocodiles that lived in the sand box.
Toni came out and led a fun game on the dome climber which was a space ship for the remainder of the day. We had a great first day coming back from the holidays.