School Age

Our school age children having a blast hunting for eggs! They were outside at the playground!

Zoo Day - "Wings And Things That Fly"

 We had a visitor today from Nashville Zoo. She brought in a special "wings" box full of different animal wings. The children was able to feel the textures of the wings. They all had great questions and loved our surprise zoo guest!

School Age

Our School Age friends making a pet farm!

School Age

Our School Age girls hanging out and having fun!

Cupcake Decorating with Homestyle Bakery

Over Christmas Break, Homestyle Bakery came and demonstrated how to decorate cupcakes for School Age!  The best part was we got to eat them afterwards!  

Ms. Sara, our guest, has two children here at HTPL so she was glad to come out and show us what wonderful things Homestyle Bakery has at their store.  She icing she made was green, red, and white swirl - like a Christmas candy cane!

We got to decorate the cupcake ourselves and then add some extra sprinkles and other decorations to it as well.  We had tons of fun!

Time to eat!!

Proud of her decorating skills :)

This demonstrates the red, white, and green swirls.  We got to watch how she stuffed the icing container to make this swirl pattern.  We were impressed.

Here are some of the extra decorations we could add.

This is Ms. Sara helping with the icing decorating.  Some kids wanted to do it all themselves and others wanted help from Ms. Sara.

We are thankful to Homestyle Bakery for coming out and having such a fun workshop for us to learn from.  The cupcakes were so good!  

Thank you, Ms. Sara!

Basil Plants

For a long-term science project in schoolage we chose to plant Basil Plants.  We planted two different kinds of basil.  The kit came with all the ingredients, we just planted and watered them to start off.

These are the dirt mounds with holes in the center for us to put the seeds into.

Adding some water to the mounds.

Putting in the seeds.

This is the "green house" cover that goes on top of the container.

Every few days we have been writing down our observations of the plant growth.

This is what they look like today, two weeks after we planted them.  We love looking at them at the end of each day and seeing what new developments have happened.  They are growing quite well!  We are excited for them to get big enough that we can use the leaves to cook yummy things!

Pumpkin Carving Contest

Holly Tree Priest Lake had a center wide Pumpkin Decorating Contest.  The parents voted on the pumpkin they liked best and the winner won an ice cream party.  

School age entered Finding Nemo into the competition:

Though it was a close race...

SCHOOL AGE WON!!!  

Thanks, parents, for voting!  We loved our ice cream party!