National Museum of Play...

 Kids, kids and more kids....

 Little music lady..

 Dance Party...

 Little J in Tinker Toy Land..

 Sesame Street!

And that's today's news...

T-ball

 

K loved playing t-ball sooo much this year!  He really learned a lot and made lots of new friends. :)

Rain Forest Zoo Class

This week's zoo class was all about the rain forest.  We learned about the different layers (the forest floor, the canopy, and the emergent layer), we got to see and touch several different rain forest animals and learned about which part they live in.

 This is Joe the Hyacinth Macaw...isn't he beautiful? We learned that he lives in the emergent layer of the rain forest.

K holding the giant hissing cockroaches... (they live on the forest floor).

This is a rainbow boa constrictor...up to more mischief, he took the zoo teacher's keys out of her pocket!  I'm pretty sure this is the same naughty snake that bit the zoo keeper here, but fortunately he had better behavior today.  :)

Last, we made rain forest flowers out of paper and then we made a "rain forest web" with string to show how all the different things that live in the rain forest are connected and important to each other.

Fall Leaf Window Decorations

First we chose leaves from our yard, and traced them with a Sharpie on to wax paper.

Then we traced the lines with Crayola Window FX black paint..and filled it in with colors.

We let them dry and then stuck them to our window.

Swimming Lessons

The kids loved swimming lessons so much this summer! K and J have learned so much from their teachers.

J likes being tied up in a noodle.

Back floating boy...

J found out that this was her last day, and burst into tears! :( We'll definitely be back next summer!

Enchanted Garden..

These Creativity For Kids kits are fun! This is the "Enchanted Garden" which is now growing magic beans in our window sill.

The little gnome loves to play in the dirt, and has daily adventures! :)

Sunflower Project

We decided to join the Great Sunflower Project this summer. It's a research project being done by some professors at San Francisco State University to study honey bees.

Planting seeds...

Add a little sunshine.... :)

After the Sunflowers bloom, we will watch for bees and then log on to the website to report bees that visit our sunflowers.

Books, Books, And More Books!

With these little bookworms, we can't seem to leave the library with only a few books...

This book was one of our favorites this time...check it out, it was adorable!

Swimming Lessons