Wordless Wednesday: Throwback to Disney World!

March 2011

True Oregonian

Yesterday I went on a nice run, in the rain. I know I may be crazy but it was actually nice. I loved the feeling of rain on my face, the nice cool fresh air.

Growing up I use to play soccer. I always looked forward to it raining during soccer games. Considering I was a goalie I would get pretty dirty by the end of the game! :)

I look forward to many more runs in the future! I'm one more step closer to my goal

Wordless Wednesday: sensory fun

St. Patrick's Day art

I love doing things with hand prints. There are so many things you can do with them and it's really cute when their hands are so tiny! Well for this project I made a clover with thier hands. Actually my co worker did but I cut them out :)

Another one I did was a pot of gold. I started out with a bowl shape on black paper and glued it to another piece of paper. After that I gathered glue, a dixie cup and gold glitter. Using the bottem of the cup,  dip it in glue and make circles on the paper. Then take gold glitter and spread it everywhere!

The next one involved a coffee filter, and I cut it in the shape of a clover and placed it on a tray. I then found some blue and yellow water color. The kids then got to put the two colors on the filter how ever they wanted too and has the colors mixed it turned green! It was fun seeing all the different unique clovers they made.

Black and white Sunday

Why not?
A picture I took on our adventure today

Holes created by a pecking wood pecker

Welcome to my classroom!

I've been wanting to post pictures of my new classroom since the beginning of February, but there have been a lot of changes to it since then and I figured I should wait until all the coats of paint and new shelves/toys etc were all here. Well that time has finally come! I'm very proud of my classroom and love the look of it

The rest of the pictures speak for themselves, so enjoy. Happy Friday!!

Our butterfly tree!

LOVE my bulletin board

Children's artwork hanging from the ceiling

More artwork

Our little kid sized sink

A place to hang pictures to dry

The cubbies that lead to the older toddler room

Weekend baking project

So my weekend of baking was a huge success. I baked 3 different things. Granted the first one wasn't really that hard to make to make because it wasn't from scratch, but it's not something I make all the time and it's only like my 3rd time making it.

Blueberry waffles
I received a waffle maker for Christmas. I used to make pancakes but never had any luck with them, I figured a waffle maker would be easier. Also I like waffles better anyway. Anyway, over the weekend I had some leftover blueberries. I poured them into the batter I mixed just to change it up a bit.

I'm getting pretty good at making them and very delicous

Chocolate chip muffins
This recipe was also influenced by a Christmas gift I received. You know that paper linings they use for cupcakes/muffins? Well I got silicone ones for Christmas! So I decided to make use of them. I found this recipe on http://allrecipes.com Super easy and makes a dozen muffins

So colorful!

They turned out really good but as you can probably tell I sprinkled WAY too much brown sugar on top of them. Also the tops were a little hard and crunchy. They still tasted delicious though. Not bad for my first try! :)

Banana bread:
So I'll admit I was a little skeptical about doing this one. I've never had much luck when it comes to making bread. The bread either doesn't rise, or it burns. This was simple recipe that I found on www.cooks.com. The thing I did differently was use a 13 x 9 pan, considering I didn't have a bread loaf pan. It didn't take as long to cook either.

It is delicious!