Our First Week back in 2013

We always start the beginning of the week putting our alpha pictures in our books... and going through our letter bin...

To celebrate the start of Winter .... school ended before break before Winter really started... We read The Mitten.... our craft to go along with the book was to lace up cardstock mittens...put all the animals inside the mitten... and then decorated them with glitter....

The finished mittens...

We made these yummy Snow Shovel Cookies... recipe found here... They are chocolate chip cookies...with pretzels...dipped in white chocolate...

Our Letter of the week "l".... we made "l" is for "l"ollipops!

We did an experiment to see which solution would do the best job to clean a dirty penny. I got the experiment from here.  We used vinegar and salt (1/2 C vinegar to 2 teaspoons salt), water and soap, and water.

Turns out the vinegar and salt made the pennies shiny and new looking.... but make sure to rinse them off... or they turn green!

See what others are up to this week:

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stART- The Mitten

A Story + Art = a great stART

For other fun stART projects this week head over to A Mommy's Adventures
For our project this week, we read The Mitten by Jan Brett. I found on her website a fun project to go along with the story. Coloring in all the animals from the story and putting them inside a mitten that we cut out and glued together. (We are starting small with our stART projects, but I hope to get more creative as time goes on!!!!)








Here is Ryleigh's tray with this week's "art" supplies.









Ryleigh coloring in her animals













Ryleigh playing with her animals after I cut them out for her












Putting them in the mitten that she glued together- she really liked the final product!!!












Braeden was enthralled by not only the story but by the project itself!!!!!