Week E: lots of books about elephants.
We made (and ate) macaroni and cheese with Elbow macaroni.
What is an electrician?
Estimating...estimated how many elbow noodles were in a jar and how many marshmallows were in another jar. And then counted them to see how close we came and to finish it off we ate the marshmallows! yum!
Evaporation...we painted black paper with salt water. We came back a few hours later to find that the water had evaporated leaving behind our pictures made of just salt.
Week F included...fish, feet, fox, firefighters, farmers, fractions, freezing fruit pops and the life cycle of the frog art project.
Week G included...
Gardening!! Growing from seeds. What great timing to get our seeds started for our garden this spring/summer. We started a few varieties of tomato and pepper seeds and some unknown "surprise" seeds that came with Lili and Gabi's It's a Big Big World Dvds from Christmas. We'll try and figure out what they are once they start growing. Lili had a blast helping with this project. She likes getting in the dirt and counting out the seeds for each spot.
This week we also had several "G" snacks, graham crackers, grapefruit (Lili took a few bites but didn't like it much), granola bars and green beans. We read about garden friends (bugs), gorillas, grandparents, gardens and grasshoppers. Greater than symbol for math and tried making goop for art but it wasn't as easy as expected and was bit to messy even for Lili. She enjoyed it more when I poured the goop into a ziplock bag and let her mix it that way. It was to hard to mix in a bowl.
H-Week! A great time for a lesson on being healthy for h-week as the girls are both sick with colds and lounging on the couch :( They also experienced the pros (extra tv time) and cons (feeling miserable) of taking a sick day.
Some days this week the girls felt up to school so we did get to do some H-week stuff. This week included...honey to sooth Lili's cough, books about honey, hair and hiccups. Counting by hundreds. And fun on Saint Patrick's Day! We wore green of course! For our morning snack we made shamrock shapes toast with green sugar sprinkles, for lunch we added some green with raw broccoli and a glass of green kool-aid and after dinner we made green pudding for dessert. Who knew green could taste to good! We read a book about Saint Patrick's Day and made drawings of shamrocks and a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end.
Happy Saint Patrick's Day Everyone!!
