With Heart From the Home

 Baking Unit wasn't as hands on as I had hoped, but we have another week of Christmas festivities to make up for that! We did several worksheets to practice prewriting skills and also decorated a cupcake chef hat! A simple sensory bin was made from oats and some kitchen tools I had on hand. She scooped the oats into the cupcake tins and made 'cupcakes'. The most exciting part of baking week was making gingerbread houses with Grandma. She mostly taste tested but was quite excited about building them! We got started on Christmas books early so didn't check out specific baking books, although a forever favorite of ours is Who At All the Cookie Dough? By Karen Beaumont. We look forward to more baking activities while celebrating the holidays. With heart from our home,  Jordan

Playing catch up on blog posts! We covered Arctic week 3 weeks ago. I wasn't super expectant that it would be that special, but I was wrong! She thoroughly enjoyed it and was so interested in the topic. It helped that Wild Kratts released a few new episodes covering Arctic animals on PBS. The books we checked out were mostly covering specific arctic animals. There are many more, but these she showed a special interest in.  We did a few activities and worksheets. Her favorite was finding the height and width of each arctic animals and then using a measuring tape to draw how big that actually would be. We used white paper taped together to make it more realistic. We also did a very simple sensory bin of cotton balls and Arctic animal figurines she had on hand. Later on I found her collecting any and all arctic animals she owned and lining them up. She added a tiger to it and I asked her if he belonged there. She responded yes, he's a Siberian tiger. She taught me something new! T...