Today we would like to wish a very happy birthday to our friend Elliott! Your creativity and drive for knowledge inspire all of us every day. Welcome to 6! We are so happy to have you in Wee World.

Today is also my (Miss Jessica) birthday as well! Thanks to all my friends who posed for a picture with my dad who got to visit this morning.

Besides celebrating birthdays today we also had a chance to decorate pumpkins. This time instead of paint, we used a variety of brads, googly eyes, feathers, ribbon, etc. to make pumpkin faces. Some of these materials were hard to get onto the pumpkins, so we used a hammer and nails to make pilot holes. Friends rolled with this and worked hard to make their pumpkin the way they wanted!

Kindergarten: An oft-heard phrase among our kindergartners is, “can you take a picture of this?!” This week Jessica taught Elizabeth and Elliott how to use the camera so they could take some pictures of their work themselves. Today they took pictures of their building creation and then decided to use the pictures on the camera as references for their habitrail journals.

Elliott had a unique way of documenting his work: he drew a picture of the camera (and all its buttons) and then drew a picture of the picture on the camera.

Thanks to everyone who made this a great birthday day. Happy Thursday! –Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Carrots. Breakfast: Whole Grain Cheerios and fresh oranges. Lunch: Whole grain brown rice with shredded beef and fresh broccoli and grapes. Snack: Homemade pumpkin muffins in honor of Elliott’s birthday and mozzarella cheese sticks!