3/4 Year Old Room Update

We have rounded out our "Fire Safety" theme this past week. We have talked about "stop, drop, and roll", when and why we call "911", and how to stay safe when practicing fire drills, and in case of fire.

We had a great field trip to the Fire Station on Manchester Ave. The fire fighters that showed us around the station were very nice, and patient and answered all of our questions. They let us get into the fire trucks , and they even turned on the flashing lights for us! :) We have pictures to share with everyone, they are all ready to be picked up at the daycare.

We practiced a fire drill last week at the daycare as well. Everyone did a really great job staying calm, and using their "walking feet", but moved quickly to get out of the building to our meeting spot.

We had done all kinds of reading about fire fighters and fire safety. We have also done all kinds of art around our fire safety theme.

We have now moved on to a new theme - "music/musical instruments". But our "fire safety" theme will be revisited soon. We are going to have a fireman visit us at the daycare soon (probably the week of the 7th of October as is it Fire Safety Education week). We are hoping that he might bring a truck with him and will show us his equipment and maybe even let us try it on! ;)

Celery update #4

"Our celery is getting huge!" an excited boy at daycare tells me. I turn to look at it and say, "Oh my, I guess it is!!! I need to take some pictures!"

I just realized as I'm typing this that it will be a month since we started growing out celery tomorrow. Where has the time gone??

It has gotten extremely large in that time - about 8" now!! It is also very robust, we have discovered, as it's been pulled out by the little ones several times now LOL.

In pulling it out we have discovered that our celery has grown quite an extensive root system ( picture to follow as I didn't get one today when it was out, but I will be sure to get one tomorrow when someone pulls it out... Hehe).

Our celery growing experiment had prompted the growing of a second celery- this time we have put blue food coloring in the water. The celery was only planted last Friday and the food coloring was only added to the eater today. As you can see, tube color is already traveling up the stalks and the tips are slightly colored as well :)