Teddy Bear Picnic & First Field Trip!

There have been many fun memories the past 2 weeks at preschool! The first was a "first" for the school.... a "Teddy Bear Picnic". Have any of you read the book The Teddy Bears' Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy? It is such a sweet book where all of the bears gather in the woods for a picnic! Well, that was the plan at preschool...an outside picnic under the big trees. However, it rained on our special day so we had to make do with an indoor picnic! We still had a great time. All of the children got to bring along their favorite SPECIAL Teddy bear. I was very pleased with Jazmyn's choice. She chose one that I used to play with when I was a little girl. She brought her Great Grandma Helen's big white fluffy bear and she has since named her "Helen Walter" after both of her grandparents! She loves to hear stories about her family that she has never met and talks about them often just as if they were in her everyday life! I'm sure her Great Grandma was looking down on her with a smile that day!

It was a great day together at preschool. Mommy, Daddy and "Bam-ma" all got to join in on the fun!

Here she is with her teacher, Mrs. Lucy and "Helen".

The following week we had our first field trip of the school year! It was to a local farm. We had a hayride and learned about all sorts of things: farm machinery, how corn grows, a few historical markers along the ride, and we even saw some wildlife in the woods!

Here's Jazmyn shucking corn, (well actually just holding the corn that mommy shucked for her!) She wasn't so sure she liked the "yucky brown stuff" on the corn and she was squeamish about the occasional bug! But I did manage to get one picture of her touching the corn! Yep, that's my girly girl!

We even got to feed the CATFISH! The pond has been stocked with huge catfish and spoonbill by the conservation dept. We fed them and then caught one while they were eating. This is the kind of fishing I LIKE! They were everywhere and biting like crazy...LOL! The kids enjoyed seeing the fish and then watching them swim away when we let them go!
Here we are all gathered around the campfire! We roasted smores together! Mmmm! We had a terrific afternoon! The kids had a blast!
Now we are looking forward to next week....Wednesday Jaz has snack and is the leader and Friday is Jazzy's sharing day! Looks like we'll be taking the "froggies" to school! Hmmm....another fun week!