Parent Night

Last night was parent night at Paige's school. Not to be confused with parent/teacher night which is on Monday. Parent night is for the kids to bring a parent to school and show us what all they work on. They asked that only one parent come with each child to keep it from getting too crowded in the classroom. Since Justin grew up in a Montessori school, I got to go so I could learn more about her work.

In the past few weeks Paige has really come out of her shell. I'm hoping her teachers will tell us the same on Monday night when we meet with them. She used to be shy and fairly reserved. Now she's a total chatterbox. She loved taking me around the classroom and showing me everything she works on and she wasn't intimidated at all by all the other people in the room. I snapped a few pictures with my phone as we worked on things together.

Bead Tree, Spindle Box, Sandpaper letters, broad stairs & pink tower:

Little Artist

Paige loves to draw. Every day when she comes home from school she usually brings home about 5 drawings that she has done. They usually look pretty similar, just lots of scribbles on white paper. The other day she told us she was going to draw a princess and the output actually looked a little like a person. Then today, while I was making my lunch I was flipping through the stack of papers she brought home yesterday and found this one:

See the yellow hair, eyes, mouth, legs and feet? I'm assuming that's green grass at the bottom and blue marks in the sky could be birds? Ok, the birds might be a stretch.

I added some colored pencils to her wishlist!

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the Valewood Farms pumpkin patch a few weeks ago.

Paige got to milk a cow:

Play in the corn:

Play in the hay maze:

 

Pose with pumpkins:

They have a really nice hayride too where they give a tour of the farms and their cows and the beautiful countryside. It's a great time of year to do this when all the leaves are turning.

Brooke had fun too :)

 

Happy Halloween!

Here are some pictures of the girls in their Halloween costumes. Paige was Sleeping Beauty and Brooke was a piggy.

Brooke is now sitting up all by herself unsupported!