This Week in the Maple Room

In the Maple room, we have been quite engaged with activities to continue learning about continents, fall harvesting and getting ready for celebrations. Many children are focused on lengthy works and seem to be progressing well.

We decided to have a Thanksgiving fruit salad for our own  Thanksgiving celebration on Wednesday the 21^st. Each one of us will be bringing in a fruit that we chose from our artificial fruit basket. The info slip will be found in their cubbies. Please send in the fruit on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. The children will be washing, cutting and arranging the salad, so NO preparation is needed at home.

We will also make a dessert—a no bake pumpkin cheese cake to go with our fruit salad, on Tuesday the 20^th.

The ingredients are – pumpkin, cream cheese, brown sugar (some of course!) cool whip, and graham crackers. I did not see any child being allergic to these ingredients in my records. Please let me or Jama know if there is a concern.

Pratyush, Laasya and Anaya’s Moms (Pavitra ,Kavita and Alpa) gave us a presentation for Diwali. It was an awesome experience for us. The children got to experience the lovely skit about the story of Diwali, acted out by Arhan, Pratyush and Laasya. Pavitra brought several novelties from home to share with us.

They brought in snacks to taste, costumes to try out and music to dance to. Thank you to all the volunteers for providing this extraordinary experience for our children.

We made some Diwali lights (diyas) from clay and decorated them. We lighted the one that Ms. Jama made with a handmade wick and coconut oil, for silence today.

We are looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving and then many more holidays in the weeks to come.

Children need to get out and play and get their energy out and build a strong immune system. We will be out for 15 minutes in the morning 9-9:15 am and then 11:40-12:00, as long as the weather permits and it is above 37 degrees.

As per the Old Scandinavian saying and  Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes:

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”

We will try to bundle up our children as best as we can.