The Snow Flys!

Before we could make any big leaf piles, snow covered the Harmony playground!  Nothing is better than strapping on all of our snow gear and making snowmen, snow angles, and catching it on our tongues as it falls. 

Working together to make a snowman.

We discovered if we put snow on the slide before we slide down with snow pants on we go super fast!

Fall is Here!

We've been having a blast playing in the fall leaves this week.  Soon there will be enough leaves to make great big piles; we can't wait!  Here are some pictures of past weeks playing on the Harmony playground before it's gotten cooler.

Friends waiting for the swings with a timer to know when it's their turn.

The bikes are so much fun when there is a friend to share it with!

 

Teachers have been getting creative at snack time!  Check out our pumpkin snack made of rice crackers, cream cheese, carrots, and raisins. 

We are so fortunate to have outstanding parent/family volunteers.  As we've been studying Native American culture, an uncle of one of our students is a Native American from the Tlingit tribe in Alaska.  He read us a book, taught us some Tlingit phrases, and showed us some amazing artifacts including a framed eagle feather.  What an amazing visitor for our little ones!  Thank you!

Native American Theme and Yard Sale

First of all, thank you so very much for helping to make our yard sale a huge success!  We raised over $1,500 for There With Care (an organization that supports families and children facing critical illness).  Thank you for your donated items, baked goods for our bake sale, and helping out at the sale itself and set up. 

We've been learning so much about Native American culture this theme!  We've crushed Indian corn with mortar and pestle, baked fry bread and corn bread, played inside the Harmony teepee, created poems about the environment, dyed cloth, and much more!  Here are some pictures of our busy preschoolers. 

The frog group dyed cloth by mashing up berries.

Play dough fun!

Native American hoop dancing.

Children working at the take apart table; using tools and working together to investigate the insides of a broken tape player.

Puffer fish group taking kernels off Indian corn and then mashing it up. 

Teamwork!

One more week of Native American theme!