Happy Halloween!

Today we took a break from our traditional stories and we watched a story on DVD. Our story was about Spookley the Square Pumpkin.



We did a square pumpkin craft for the kids to bring home.


Spookley has an official site with lots of things for kids to do. There are coloring pages, activity sheets, and music videos to watch.

There are lots and lots of Halloween games to be found at the Family Fun website. If you want a really great parenting magazine, by the way, this is one of the best!

I found a new site with games for young and older children-- lots of really fun graphics and word games on this one.

One of our Moms made these cute finger cookies for the Lombardi bake sale. You can make them at home for yourself with this recipe.

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Have a wonderful, safe Halloween!

New pictures...

...are now on-line. Follow the link in the previous blog to view them. Thanks to Claudine, Tara and Lisa for sharing their photos.

Love,
Heather

Pumpkin Patch Trip...

We had a great time at the Pumpkin Patch at Underwood Farms. In this link I will post everyone's pictures so we can all share them. I am also linking some sugar pumpkin recipes, so we can all enjoy our pumpkins!!

Here are the pictures that Suzanne and I took.

There are lots of recipes-- here's how to process your pumpkin to make it usable for recipes.

In my new Martha Stewart Everyday Food Magazine they have several sugar pumpkin recipes. If you go to the "In Season" tab on this page, you will see several of these recipes.

If you have other pictures for me to share, please send me an e-mail hippolito@gmail.com and I'll stick them on here for other Mom's to download.

It was great fun to see you all today-- see you next week at MOPS!

Pooh's Friendship Week

Winnie the Pooh was published by A.A. Milne on October 14, 1926. This week we celebrate this achievement by reading some stories inspired by our favorite silly old bear. Each of the classrooms will have a different Winnie the Pooh story read to them (please note that these are the Disney versions, not the traditional or classic Pooh versions.)

The kids made a bee with their friends. If you look at the wings of the bee you should see the fingerprints of all the kids in their class. This shows that if we all work together we can make things better!

If you would like to learn more about A.A. Milne you can check out this site. It has a short, reasonably easy to understand biography of Mr. Milne's life. This site also has some neat games and e-cards featuring both classic and Disney Pooh.

For all things Pooh-- games, stories, and merchandise you can check out the official Disney site.


If your child would like to color some Pooh pages, try this site.

For those Moms who love to bake-- and show off their amazing skills-- there is a darling Pooh cake that you and the kiddos can make here.

We hope you take some time to enjoy a little time with Pooh and your friends!