September 8, 2010

This week we have been learning about colors.
We have read books and played games, talked about and used
all sorts of colors.

Miss Spresser and Alicia read A Color of His Own about a

chameleon.

We listened to a song about colors and found objects in
the room that were the right color.

Alicia played a game using colors and graphing. The
kids decided which color was "more".

September 2, 2010

Kids Port kids had a special treat today. Pedal 4 Prevention, three young men who are bicycling 4,000 miles to raise awareness and funds to fight child sexual abuse, stopped by to talk to the kids about their bikes and experiences riding across the country. They showed the children on the KP map rug where they were from (Mike is from Scotland) and where they were going (Charleston, SC to Los Angeles, CA).

From left to right: Mike, Tyler, and Landon

Tyler is with Darkness to Light, an organization which educates

people on awareness and prevention of child sexual abuse.

Tyler demonstrates how to change a bike tire. The kids
were fascinated (for a while).

Landon shows the kids how to air up the tire.

 

Kids Port staff Megan and Alicia and the kids pose with

Mike, Landon and Tyler.

For more information or to see the Pedal 4 Prevention click on the link. http://www.pedalforprevention.com/

August 26, 2010

This week we have been doing lots with our names. We said goodbye to some of our school age friends and set three more butterflies free. Here are some of the pictures from this week.

Dylan had some help with his name.

Gracee and Alexa decorate their names with noodles, pompoms
and a variety of other fun stuff.

Jessie made her name in playdough.

Megan reads Where the Wild Things Are to an

attentive audience.

August 23, 2010

On Friday of last week we set our first two butterflies free. We celebrated with a snack that the butterflies would have liked.

Karen helped Haley, Jackson, Austin and Gracee set the
butterflies free.

Markus enjoys some "nectar".

Miss Spresser taught the kids a butterfly dance. The kids used scarves for wings and to make as cocoon.

Jackson makes a cocoon with the scarf.


Over the weekend we had three more butterflies come out of their chrysalises.

August 19. 2010

We finished our butterfly house just in time. Just a few hours after we put the crysalises in the house two swallowtail butterflies emerged. The kids were so excited!

We also played a game to see who could wrap up their ant the fastest. We have been learning how spiders catch their prey and wrap them up. It was a good fine motor activity.

Aaron, Miss Spresser, Haley, Erica and Kaeden race to see who can wrap up their ant the fastest.

Kaeden untwists his ant.

August 18, 2010

We need an exterminator at Kids Port!   There are bugs and spiders everywhere.

Miss Spresser, Alicia and the kids wearing their bug hats.

We have been learning about bugs and spider. We've read books and done projects all week.

Fayd making a bug hat

Listening to "Hey, Little Ant"

Dylan in his bug hat

We also put our swallowtail crysalises in their new home. We put sugar water on fake flowers to feed the butterflies when they come out of their rest.

Jackson, Markus and Austin watch as Karen "feeds"
the butterflies.

August 17, 2010

We have been learning about bugs.

Aaron and Jackson found crickets.

Today we went on a bug hunt.

Austin looks as all the bugs.

We turned over a stepping stone and found a treasure.

            

We found tunnels dug by centipedes.

We also found ants carrying eggs.

Haley tries to find the eyes on a dragon fly.

Kids Port kids are learning lots about our 6 and 8 legged friends.

August 16, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, Kaeden brought in a plastic container with several colorful caterpillars on dill weed. We watched them as they ate and ate and then one by one turned into chrysalises.

Today we colored a new home for them.

We will put them in their new home and wait for them to come out and fly.

August 13, 2010

Today we got to make chocolate chip cookies. We each got to add some ingredients and help mix it up.


Alicia helped Kaeden measure and add the margarine.






Gracee added the vanilla with Miss Spressers
help.  

Alexa found out eggs are messy!! Megan helped her get the egg in the bowl.



We added flour and brown sugar and baking soda and salt. And best of all, Chocolate Chips!!!!

We had to bake them in the oven.

We got to eat them for afternoon snack. They were good!

August 12, 2010

Welcome to Kids Port Kapers, the new daily blog for Kids Port Family Child Care Group. We are located in Colby, Kansas.

This blog is a way that our families and friends can keep up with all the fun things we do each day.

We made pretzels earlier this week. It was fun and they were yummy!