Beach Day!

I have to say, today, (in my opinion at least) was the most fun day ever!!!  All the kids coming to school in swimsuits was so cute!  Add to that, sunglasses, towels, and beach cover ups, and you have a great time!!!  It was so fun to see them all come in looking ready for summer and lets not forget the sandals and flip flops! 

Today was different from every other day in every other way!  For one thing, I couldn't help but notice that not one kid touched even one toy today!  Instead, the all pretty much stuck to all the different stations we had set up around the class! 

We had Squirties!  

Not kidding:  A pretty intense water fight took place today!  Kids vs. Miss Barb!

 

 

We had Sea Shells!

We had Beach Balls and a Sandbox!

 

 

 

The most popular item:  MINNOWS!

 

 

 

 

"Teacher, I think this ones dead.  I'll listen to see if it's breathing. "  Not kidding. . .that's what he said!  

ADORABLE!!!!

 

SUN-FUN-and SWIMSUITS!

 

HULA LESSONS!

 

SUN BATHING BEAUTIES!

The kids all had so much fun playing with all this stuff!  It was like no other day.  At one point, I walked out of the office, only to be pelted by three kids wielding beach balls!  I retaliated too!  There were beach balls bouncing everwhere!  On the ground, in the air, not place was safe!  (But EVERY place was full of laughter!)  After all this we did an art project that was INCREDIBLY adorable!!!!

First we needed a footprint. . . 

Then we need TWO hand prints. . . 

 and we ended up with a LOBSTER!

Then came the most fun part of all!  Each child was asked to bring in one piece of fruit.  What we did was sit down on the floor, around a giant "table" and tried a bite of each of the different fruits.  It was so fun to see the different reactions to different tastes, textures, and flavors!  

First we tried the COCONUT!

 LOTS of kids had never had fresh coconut or coconut milk.

Some kids tried it. . .

And some (on the right) did not!!!

Then we ate the coconut!

Some kids just smelled it. . .

Some tried and liked. . .

 

and some tried and gagged!

 After the coconut we went on to try all sorts of other fruts, we had Blueberries, Strawberries, Clementines, Ugly Fruit, Mango, Watermelon, Bananas, and Apples.  

LOTS OF FRUIT!

As you can see we had an Amazing day!!!!

Its WaCkY WeDnEsDaY!

It's Wacky Wednesday!  WOW did we some crazy kids today!  The clothes, the shoes, and My Oh My the HAIR!!!!  We sure have some creative kids (and creative mom's and dad's too I'm sure!)  Everything about today was Wacky!

It started off with the kids names. . .every day they find their name and put it in their mailbox.  Today however, that task was a little bit tougher. . . because their names were upside down!

 

Now it's tricky enough trying to find your name when you don't even know the whole alphabet!  Imagine the searching that took place when that alphabet was upside down!!!!  But don't worry, these kids are smart!  For some it's that first letter they recognize, or for others maybe it's the last, but every day they get smarter and smarter, and they ALL found their names!

Today in honor of our WaCkY WeDnEsDaY we read the Dr. Seuss Book

Wacky Wednesday!!!

We also did some crazy fun things with our hands today too!  Have you ever played with shaving cream?  You should!  It's a blast!  And if you're not a fan of the mess. . .just think of it as playing with soap!  Plus it smells clean!  The kids love it!  All of them couldn't get enough of it!

SHAVING CREAM WITH THE BLUE CLASS!

SHAVING CREAM WITH THE YELLOW CLASS!

As you can see, the shaving cream was a HIT in both classes!  As we played we added different colors of food coloring into the shaving cream and then we all mixed and mashed until it was all a different color!  It was so fun to watch them learn about mixing color in such fun way!  The biggest shock was when the shaving cream was pink and we added blue!  The kids couldn't believe that they had just made PURPLE shaving cream!  Now I've saved the best for last so enjoy these next photos!  I had a hard time pickig which ones to put up here, but these were some of the most FUN Wacky Wednesday outfits and hair I've ever seen!

 If there had been an award for best hair, it would have went to her!  She must have had 30 bows in her hair!  It was adorable!  And the most impressive part, was that although at times she was dying to take them out, at the end of the day, they were all still there!

Check out these guys!  Some more crazy hair, that's for sure!  Do you have any idea how hard it is to talk to them and not just crack up laughing?!  This was hilarious!  

Cute as can be!  

Check out this get-up!  

To commemorate the memories of all the craziness today, we took some class pictures!  Now these kids are all so good, and know the drill that they all line up, and as soon as I get the camera, I see 20 cheerful smiling faces.  So good!!!  But since it's WaCkY WeDnEsDaY I told them to make a funny face. . .which was both exciting and confusing to them.  But as soon as I said, "you can EVEN stick your tongue out at me" they were full of giggles and goofy as can be!

So here's your kids mom and dad. . .aren't you proud?  I know we are!

BLUE CLASS CRAZINESS!

YELLOW CLASS CRAZINESS!

Happy WaCkY WeDnEsDaY!