This week we are back in the classroom working on Frog, Dog and Hog. The children are slowly associating the little laminated words with the words in their story. Every child is putting this together for him or herself. Word wall today along with reading aloud.

We are working on folk songs this year in school. We are singing “If I Had a Hammer” and “I Love the Forests” and a little tongue twister about a Tree Frog and one more improvised song called “Farmer Brown.”

We have gone to a clean plate club with lunch. Children, especially new children, are in the “habit” of declining a meal. It’s not about hunger or about want, it’s about habit. We are trying to break the habit of not eating by making eating a positive activity.

Our book fair continues. Please take a look at the books and consider Christmas is coming and books make a gift that lasts forever. We are trying to cross the $1000.00 mark this year.

Our Beautiful Baby Contest is really about families. It’s about demonstrating to kids that we all start out as Mommy’s and Daddy’s little dream boat, and slowly move away from that image into an image of “I can do things all by myself.” We add the family trees, and learn our names, addresses and phone numbers and birth days, and then move from the family theme into “I’m part of the great world that is made of nature and has Man’s influence.” At the end of the contest, we will use the pennies to buy a toy. This is a contest that is a first step to “We helped to do this…”

Please remember that The Garden School is halfway between your house and the big industrial school house. We make that first step less than painful…and hopefully our few years at the GS will help children step up to the plate with all the moxie and the confidence they need to be big hitters in school.

Grandparents’ Tea is on Friday at 2:00. Singing will begin at 2:00 and will be followed by gifts and then refreshments. Dismissal follows the refreshments. All children MUST have an adult guest.