California Dreamin

Caleb's class had "Summer Day" last week and it happened to be the day I signed up to help. They were all so excited to wear their summer clothes to school in the middle of winter. Caleb announced to his teachers "You better crank up the heat so we not cold!"
I was stationed in the "beach room" where they had a sand table (with brand new sand so Caleb could play), a swimming pool (without water), a beach chair (to read books) and sand buckets (to work on sorting.) It was fun seeing him "play" at times with his peers. He still flits from thing to thing during free play, so I didn't get to watch what he was doing the entire time....or take too many pictures:) All the kids seemed to have a great time. And it made me hate the cold even more!

Reading on the beach chair:


Swimming in the pool with Bryn and Ryan and playing at the sand table:


He also got to make his own "ocean" in a pop bottle. He got to pick out fish and shells and glitter to put in the blue water. This is the latest thing that he has to drag to bed with him. Isaac was so jealous of it that we had to make him one too (although his is just blue water in a Gatorade bottle...he doesn't seem to know the difference!)