Swimming and the Food Pyramid

We'll be swimming this Wednesday, November 17th and I'll send a reminder home on Tuesday.  We've introduced the Food Pyramid this week. There's a great website with ideas for preschoolers at My Pyramid for Preschoolers and it's worth checking out.  It's interactive and you can input the specific age of your child and get an individualized pyramid plan.The children are learning to categorize familiar foods on our food pyramid and we'll start talking about eating healthy foods vs. non-healthy foods and what it means to be healthy and active. 

We are continuing our study about Pilgrims and Indians and the Mayflower.  Our corn seeds that we planted a few weeks ago needed to be transplanted so they're in a larger container.  So far our sunflower and pumpkin seeds have sprouted and we're still hoping our apple seeds will sprout this week.  We made Indian bead necklaces and headbands.  We'll wear them for our Thanksgiving Feast on the 23rd and then we'll send them home with the children.  The whole school eats a Thanksgiving Feast on that day.  We're making place mats that share some of the things we're thankful for and we'll use them at our Feast. 

We made bird feeders out of pine cones rolled in peanut butter and then rolled in the sunflower seeds that we harvested.  With the great weather this week, we hung them up as soon as we did them along with some ears of corn.  We hung them on the tree that we can see out of our classroom and we hope to be bird watching soon!

Important Dates

Wednesday, November 17th-Swimming

Wednesday, November 24th and 25th-Thanksgiving Break

Wednesday, December 22nd-World of Bounce Field Trip-We welcome any parents that can come with us and I'll send permission slips home right after our Thanksgiving Break