After months of taste testing seasonal produce the children have selected favorites for their Thanksgiving Feast Wednesday at NSW. They proposed hamburgers, hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, and chicken nuggets for the main course, tomatoes, red bell peppers, and beets for their vegetable, pumpkin and carrot soup, and berry crisp, apple crisp, or pumpkin muffins…
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What’s Cooking?
Hi Everyone! Our tastebuds have been tickled lately! The children have made three trips to the Venice Farmers Market, two trips to Ocean View Farms, held their own NSW Farmers Market and been busy cooking with several parent volunteers. The children joined me one afternoon in making homemade butter. It was pure magic to see…
Our trip to the Venice Farmer’s Market
Sign up in the hallway near ‘snack calendar’ to chaperone a Friday trip to the Farmers Market. We are exploring tastes, sounds, smells and sights – Join us!
Wish List!
The Forest group and the Castle group are getting into costumes. Some of the children’s drawing capabilities need more information when it comes to representing their ideas of clothes on bodies. The dress form (child sized) will come in handy for sensory input and visual understanding of how a fabric lies on a body. We…
Sensory Exploration: Smells
As a provocation the teacher set up some herbs and spices for the children to explore. A pestal and mortar where also placed at the table and it invited the children to explore by grinding the herbs and spices. The children where immediately drawn to the cinnamon. Noticing this, the teacher asked: Cynthia: “What do…
Get Dirty!
Get Your Gardening On! Feel like getting your hands dirty with a little Mother Earth? Join Sarah Pinder at the NSW Ocean View Farms plot. Or sign up to volunteer your time to do some NSW planting and watering. See the calendar on the wall by snack sign ups to choose your day to help.…
Parent Partners Meeting Recap
Last week marked our official first Parent Partners meeting at NSW. The purpose of the meeting was for parents to hear from committee chairs about the focus and goals of each committee for the 2010/2011. The next step is for each individual committee to meet separately to plan, organize, and work on their…
Need Newspaper
Yoli is working with the children on a suprise for the flower party and she needs more newspaper today or tomorrow. Please drop newspapers off in the paper house and ask no questions – wink, wink. THANKS!
Walkway Progress
All week, the children have been watching Francisco and his crew open the walkway. Yesterday they laid concrete pavers and sorted the childrens treasures. Amy and Caroline laid the pieces in the concrete while the children supervised. Francisco and his crew…
Thank You
Whew, that was a wild couple of weeks and I know you felt it because so many parents were involved in preparation for the tour last weekend! I have to say, it was delightful to bump into so many of you here during the day doing focused work, there was always a bright and shiny…