Cottonwood Creek

Hello from Cottonwood Creek!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of family and friends!  Here at Cottonwood Creek we had a disappearing month of November! This month was full of fun activities to decorate the room!  We started with decorating our front windows with cute, little colorful turkeys!  I made a banner out of leaves which I printed out and cut to write "Happy Thanksgiving day" on.  (I know the picture is not that clear sorry!)  Next week we got to work on our longest project making a scarecrow and forming a little pumpkin/corn patch.  I started off with a simple idea of just giving a little background for all the scarecrows to have and it snowball into a full on little display for my wall; its awesome!  Each child put their name next to their scarecrow as well as on the leaves which they then colored for the tree I made!  I simply love the way it turned out!  And I think its a nice idea for a Christmas display as well.  The kids also had time to color and write a story for my story land wall.

Lastly, we put together a feast of our own here at the computer lab!  I figured since the kids have been on their best behavior for the last few months, that was plenty to be thankful for!  So I got a couple of pizzas and a pumpkin pie and the rest of the snacks the parents sent over to share with all of the little ones!  It was a nice time and a good time to show that thankfulness is the best!  We went around the table before we ate and shared something each one of us was thankful for!  It is truly an awesome holiday!  Here is hoping that all had as good a time as we did here at Cottonwood Creek!

 

 

Parksdale II

Today we're out enjoying the Sun by playing dodge ball.  We made two different teams of 4 children on each team.  Once the ball gets you, that means you have to sit out and wait until everyone from your team gets out. Hope everyone enjoys the Sun just like we did.  The 7 day forecast says there's rain coming this week with temperatures dipping to freezing.  We may be saying farewell to this beautiful spring like weather we've been having this fall.  Time to get those coats out folks, till next time.

 

 

Cottonwood Creek

Hello Everyone!  As I write this we are working hard to get our room decorated for Thanksgiving but I must apologize as this post is about our halloween treats/party last month.  As I have done in the past I challenged the children to get our room as spirited looking and decorated for this past Halloween as possible...if they held up their end I promised I would treat them to something fun at the end of the month for our party. Well easy to say they sure held up their end so I had to deliver on my end.  I purchased goodie bags and put a few fun treats as well such as candy!  I found a good deal on the glow in the dark bracelets at the 99 cents store!  Can't go wrong there!  The pencils were cute too and useful so those went in as well. Also at the 99 cents store, I found some "vampire fangs" that the kids got a kick out of and it was fun to see all of them wearing them around the computer lab.  Since they all did such a teriffic job I had a halloween themed cake for us all to enjoy as well as treats the kids brought to share with the rest of their little computer lab buddies!  We watched Monsters Inc. and enjoyed our treats and had a wonderful time!  Now time to get ready for Thanksgiving, gobble, gobble...