vote, vote, vote

I have great news! Mikayla and Ella have been chosen as final contestants for the costume contest from Kiwi Magazine!

Please, please, please take a couple of seconds out of your time to go on the following site and vote for the girls!

http://www.kiwimagonline.com/contests/diycostumes/voting.php

They are choosing three girls, so please go on the site twice so that you can vote for each one once so that both of them will win!

Yea! We are so excited for them!

Maryam

International Winter Festival

Our International Winter Festival will be held on December 18th at 3:00 pm.

Ice Express will be there to blow 10,000 pounds of snow for the children to play in!

We will also have our "Taste of Food From Around the World"!

Parents please check your email, or the check in computer for a letter with more details on the International Festival.

If you have questions feel free to ask Maryam!

Fall Festival Booths!

We are always rushing to finish our homework so that we can get our booths ready for the fall festival! Don't forget to be here by 3:30 October 30th for all of the festivities!

Fall Festival Planning

Who better to put in charge of a festival, than the children themselves! The after school children are in the process of planing the booths for our fall festival.

They will do the face painting, trick or treating, and set up games for the younger children.

We would love to have any "clean trash" to help with our set up! Anything like big boxes, fabric, or anything that could possibly be reused by the children would be greatly appreciated!

Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Thanks ;0)

End of Summer Reminder

Parents,

Don't forget, Friday August 21st, we are having our "end of the summer" party! The children are welcome to bring snacks or games.

Also, parents, please let us know by Friday morning if your child will need to be on the after school pick up lists, so that we can arrange the pick up routes!

Let us know if you have questions!

End of the Summer Party

The summer is finally over, and what better way to end it, but with a PARTY!

The kids will plan the big party for Friday, and we will have the details for you soon..........

Tuesday, August 11th Field Trip!

Tuesday, we will take an exciting field trip to the Amtrak Station to see Disney's A Christmas Carol Train!

To kick off the movie, coming out on Nov. 6th, Disney is sending a train across the US. On Tuesday it stops in Houston!

To see photos of the train go to

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/christmascaroltraintour/#/map/houston

We will leave the school at 9:00 a.m., and each child will need to bring a sack lunch. Permission slips will be in the classroom this afternoon!

Let me know if you have questions!

The Week of August 3rd

This week we are finishing our books! They should be ready to be bound soon! We will have them on a book shelf for your reading pleasure soon!

In addition to that, on Tuesday the 4th, we will have our own series of The Food Network's - Chopped! Now that we have cooked recipes from all over the world, we will put our skills to the test!

On Friday, we will take a trip to the theaters to see G Force! We have been wanting to see it! Details will be on the permission slip, and they should be ready for you by Wednesday!

Cockrell Butterfly Center

alpha omega

Field Trips!

On Friday, July 24th we will go to the First Colony Mall AMC Theater to see Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosaurs! We will leave the school around 11 a.m, and the cost will be $12.00. This includes the ticket, drink, popcorn, and candy.

Monday the 27th, we will go to Alpha Omega Gymnastics for some FUN! We will be there from 10 a.m. till 12, and eat pizza there for lunch. The cost is $8.00/child.

Tuesday the 28th the toddler 2 class is going to the Cockrell Butterfly Center. The cost is $7.00/child and $8.00/adults.

If you have any questions feel free to ask Maryam!

China

Our Chinese Cuisine was FANTASTIC!

We made Egg Drop Soup............

Followed by Chicken Lo Mein Noodles............

And for desert, Almond Floats with Fruit Cocktail...............

It was delicious, and we even ate everything with chopsticks! And of course we had to have fortune cookies at the end of the meal ;0)

splash day

Hello!

I just wanted to remind you that we will be having another Splash Day next Friday, July 24th. We will have the sign up permission slip located on a clip board by the sign-in computer. Please make sure that you sign your child up on that permission slip or they will not be able to participate on Splash Day.

Also, I want to remind everyone:

* Make sure that you bring your child in their swimsuit, along with water shoes.

* Please apply suncreen, bugspray, etc. BEFORE your child is dropped off.

* Please bring a towel and a change of clothes for your child labeled with their name on them.

If you have any questions please don't hesistate to ask!

Thank you so much!

Marzi

Our Adobe Photoshop Creations!

We took a trip to Marjon's Art Studio, and she showed the steps in making her art work. We were able to take photos, and we learned how to manipulate our photos into the COOLEST PICTURES! Check them out...............
Justin is in the penny...

Joel is a "play dough man"......

Nicole is a fairy on a lily pad....

Taryn is an angel....

Bryce is on an army tank...

Justin is an alligator....

July 13th - 17th

Monday we will continue working on our art projects.

Tuesday we have something SUPER exciting planned! We will begin our day with a photo project. For this project we will need digital cameras with the connectors to upload on computers. If your child cannot bring this, no worries, the school's cameras are available. After we take our photos, we will take a small field trip to Marjon Aucoin's Studio to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop on our photos! A permission slip will need to be filled out for this, but there will be no cost. Your child will need to bring a sack lunch on this day. For more information on Marjon Aucoins work, you can visit her website at http://marjonillustration.blogspot.com/.

Wednesday we are working on our books. They are coming along wonderfully! I wish I could enter them in a contest, the stories and illustrations are so creative!

Thursday we will take a culinary trip to China! On our menu we have......................

Chinese Noodles With Chicken

Eggdrop Soup

Almond Floats

Friday we will take a trip to the Tea House on the Corner of Lexington and Sweetwater! This is going to be so fun! This tea house has around 300 different drinks they make using fresh fruits, tapioca, and so much more! The kids will take a tour and learn how to make their own drinks.

http://teahouseandcoffee.com/

Italy

We didn't waste any time, and we jumped right in to cooking our Italian recipes! Of course we had to make every one's favorite - Fettuccine Alfredo! But we made it special by adding prosciutto and peas.........mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

We also wanted to add a vegetable in our meal so we chose Asparagus with Gremolata Butter! It was delicious!

And I am sorry to say that we did make a Ricotta Cake, but it disappeared before I could get a picture of it! ;0)

Spanish Cuisine

Our spanish recipes were so tasty, but they also took extra time to make! So we split the recipes between two days.............we just weren't willing to eliminate any of them ;0)

We made a Tapa - carrots with olives

Chicken Quesadillas (with a special white sauce mmmmmmm)

Churros con Chocolate!

Fourth of July

Take a look at our 4th of July art work!

don't forget

don't forget little wonders will be closed this friday july 3rd for independence day!!! have a happy 4th of july.

joe's crab shack

Ecuador - Another Success!

Our dishes were SO tasty! We made a Torta de Zapallo (pumpkin cake), which is actually like a squash souffle.

We made Pollo en Salsa de Huevos (Chicken in Egg Sauce).

We also made Ecuadorian bread pudding! mmmmm.....

Alphabet

Check out our progress on one of our photo projects! We are finding the alphabet in nature! Can you guess the letters??????

Q
O

P

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Colors

Today for our painting project we learned about:
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Colours

Primary Colors
Colours that "cannot be obtained by mixing other hues, but one can produce all the other hues by mixing the primaries." (red, blue, and yellow)
Secondary Colors
Colours "made by mixing their adjacent primaries; for example, yellow mixed with blue makes green."
Tertiary Colors
"A mixture of primary and secondary hues: yellow-green is a mixture of the primary yellow and the secondary green."

We are making BEAUTIFUL paintings using all of the different shades!

Monochromatic Portraits!

We are learning about different color schemes in class! Today we learned how to make different shades of one color using black and white! We took pictures of ourselves and then used one color to paint our portraits!

They are hanging in our rooms for everyone to admire ;0)

June 22nd - June 26th

Monday we will paint in our pajamas!

Tuesday we will revise our movie "The Night of Clairasel and the Master of Darkness". The children are also welcome to bring any rated G movies for inspiration.

Wednesday we will have a photo project. Please remember to bring your cameras and the cable for uploading.

Thursday we will try recipes from ECUADOR! How exciting :0)

Here is what is on the menu:

Pumpkin Cake (Torta de Zapallo)

Chicken in Egg Sauce (Pollo en Salsa de Huevos)

Friday...Field Trip.....toooooooo Joe's Crab Shack!

We will get a tour of the resteraunt begining at 10:00 a.m., before the resteraunt opens. We will learn about where their food comes from, how they cook it, and how the resteraunt operates. We will even get to help cook our lunch!

Culinary Trip to India - A Success!

We did it!!!! We actually cooked our indian dishes, and they came out pretty tasty! We are so proud of our children for choosing these recipes and actually "eating" them! Take a look........





Eggs Vindaloo




Saffron Chicken Pollao








If anyone would like to make these tasty dishes here are the links.........
http://www.recipehound.com/ They are under "India".