Last session of 2013 & a kiwi visitor!

Our New Zealand friends are finally here - and their youngest daughter Laura came to help at prek this week!  She attended our mother's day out at Rock Bridge Playschool years ago in Columbia, and at 13 is now a perfect age to come help at Countryside :0)  She may come again next week if she is feeling better (a bit under the weather this weekend).

Miss Abbie, Josie & Laura painting a tree on our wall

Zach drawing a tree on our chalkboard

Grrrr...Isaac!

partner painting with Rachel & Gigi

Zach's tree

watercoloring some leaves that say what we're thankful for

soaking the watercolor paper for wet on wet painting

Ben is so much like his big sister Miss Abbie!  She always covered her paper with paint - no white showing!

mixing some color into our new playdough

our finished tree!

Josie requested we make volcanoes today - so out came the baking soda & vinegar & dinosaurs!

everyone who wanted a turn got to make 'hot' lava - we'll have to try the diet pepsi & menthos version for a larger explosion ;0)

Isaac & Zach have been loving the blocks the last couple of weeks - working so well together!

Deja vu for me: a former student reading to Josie....and Laura was Josie's age when I last had her at preschool....

a bit of Montessori!  Gigi got all the numbers in order & then used the Math U See counters underneath

Rachel working on her mitten some more

Josie & Gigi really got into drawing this week - Gigi did great with the step by step pictures!

Done!