It's either 6 short or long days until Christmas...depending on your vantage point! As a child, I remember thinking Christmas would never get here. As an adult, I am still wondering where the year went, let alone Christmas being here on Sunday! Whew! The days are long, but the years are short...said a wise person.
Friday's party was a smashing hit with every child here with family, friends and especially Santa! He came right on time and brought beautiful books for every child to enjoy. It was great to look around the room and see families reading to their children and friends. Yummmm-o food including pb & j sandwiches, fruit, fresh veggies, cookies, cookies, cookies, juice, candy and so much more.
Today, by popular demand, we went ice fishing again....bundled up and ready to go. We had 2 ice buckets out...one had 15 fish dropped in it and another had 41 in another bucket. We looked at how much more 41 is than 15...wowee! Then we counted out how many were big, small, easy to catch, hard to catch. Lots of perserverence, eye hand coordination, and chants of "I think I can" to try to catch fish. I did have one friend say: "Miss Sue, these fish are not listening to my words...." when they had trouble catching the fish! I remarked: "Many fisherman say the same thing..." :)
More holiday fun all week as we wind our way to the very end when we have our Christmas cookie decorating party and hot chocolate on Friday. Can't wait!
I found this leaf this morning. The picture does not do it justice, it was really huge! I showed it to several friends who wanted to take turns holding it while they played in the yard. I asked why and each one said, "because it's beautiful". Ahhhhh! The words from the mouth's of babes.
Additionally, we had someone humming Beethovan's 5th Symphony. I played it for them on You Tube, several stated that it is from "Little Einsteins" or some cartoon with a witch in it. So they were either scared or loved it. We talked about what a symphony is, about Beethovan and that this is his 5th Symphony. Classical culture at it's best!
Enjoy the photos! Hurray for the sunshine to play outside!
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