Just a quick reminder that the Blue Bus will be coming the next two Mondays and then be off for all of December. We will notify you in January of the new registration cycle.

It was a morning filled with math explorations. We played the egg matching game where two halves of a farm animal are hidden under two halves of an egg shell. Our small group of friends who gathered to play mastered the exercise of waiting patiently for their turn and flipping over two egg shells at a time. They also navigated well the disappointment of not making a match at every turn.

At the art table, a shifting group of friends patterned multi colored pegs in a peg board. After the peg board was full, each friend took a turn, pulling one out, identifying the color and reporting their finding to Macy, who tallied the numbers of colored pegs.

Lisa noticed Macy writing her numbers,and invited other friends to practice as well. She called out numbers and friends wrote them down.

We set out ice cube trays, cardboard tubes and fuzz balls. Friends explored these materials in many different mathematical ways!

Finn requested the plastic chain links. Friends use these materials in a variety of different ways as well. We saw necklaces, pirate ropes, hair braids and  yard sticks. Ada decided she wanted to chain 100 links together. She linked, then counted, linked then counted 3 times over until she had counted all the way to 100.

Jane and Macy are on a puzzle kick and today Tami brought in 50 and 100 piece puzzles. As I write, they are tackling a 50 piece puzzle together.

A warm sudsy pirate bath was the final table exploration before we headed out to the VERY COLD backyard!

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Whole wheat toast with cinnamon and bananas. Lunch: Homemade cheesy whole wheat rigatoni, peas and fruit salad. Snack: Cheese sticks and apple slices.