Please, No More Snow

So far this month public schools in our county have not been open one single day. And this means that the kids who are usually here before and after school have been here all day instead. Which means I am too busy taking care of kids to write about taking care of kids.

We've had lots of fun. But there has definitely been more chaos as well. More need for me to try to be in three different places at once, dealing with the needs of lots of different ages and personalities and backgrounds all at the same time.

And speaking of ages - it's amazing how much drama four preteen/early teen girls can live through in a single day. It's exhausting just to observe!

And once again, there is no school tomorrow. So once again our day will be bit crazy. But it will be fun, and interesting, and creative and hilarious I'm sure. Anything but boring.

But please, next week, can we just not have any snow. I miss my old routine.

Menu Wednesday February 10, 2010

Breakfast - Cereal, Milk, Juice

Snack - Crackers, Juice

Lunch -  Cheese and Balogna Sandwiches, Grapes, Apple Slices, Milk

Snack - Homemade Bread, Yogurt,

Dinner - Baked Potato Soup, Salad, Cheddar Bacon Toasts, Milk

Snack - Tostido Scoops, Super Easy Cheese Dip

Notes from Tuesday February 9, 2010

 Somehow I didn't take any pictures today. Somehow each time I saw something I would have liked to capture a photograph of the camera was never close by.

I do want to share the themes for our themebook this week and the links for the pages. All of our pages this week came from DLTK's sites.

Our first page is the Who Loves You? rhyme. I thought the words and the little hearts on the page were appropriate for this week before Valentine's day.

Since our letter for this week is the letter Ss the next three pages of the book are the Ss songs - The Letter S Song, Do You Know the Sandwich Man, and A Silly Slippery Snake. We also have the letter Ss Template. Because our color for this week is orange I colored the Ss template orange and also included the orange Color Buddy coloring page.

We review this book at least once a day all wee. I try to do it twice a day so that the kids on both day and evening shifts benefit from it. I usually try to include a calender page and a sign language lesson in each theme book, but when I was making the books I ran out of printer ink so decided to stop there for this week.

Menu Tuesday February 9, 2010

Breakfast - Cereal, Milk, Juice

Lunch - Tomato Soup, Crackers, Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwiches, Apples Slices, Milk

Snack - Chocolate Chip Cookies, Milk

Dinner - Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Cooked Carrots, Butter Bread, Milk

Snack - Cheddar Bacon Toasts, Milk

Notes from Monday February 8, 2010

After a couple of weeks of being totally out of routine I feel like we're getting back into the groove of things again. I'm feeling better after being sick for two weeks, and I'm adjusting to the fact that school is canceled frequently and I just need to work around that.

So today we got back on schedule and did lots of fun things. Here are some pictures of the fun we had.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

  

 

Books we enjoyed.

 

  

  

  

  

 

Menu Monday February 8, 2010

Breakfast - Cereal, Milk, Juice

Snack - Yogurt, Blueberries

Lunch - Spaghetti, Salad, Milk

Snack - Graham Crackers, Milk

Dinner - Crockpot Chicken Soup, Peaches, Onion Garlic Cheese Bread, Milk

Snack - Bananas, Milk

Notes from Monday February 1, 2010

Snow over the weekend meant we had schoolkids today. It was a busy day but it was also a good day.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Books we enjoyed.

 

 All Aboard

 

Go Dog. Go!  

 

 

Happy Grouchy Day