school with elle: day3

calendar: the usual...yesterday's date, today's, tomorrow's; days of the week; counting the number of days in the month thus far (two is nearly as funny as one).

chalkboard: again with our sentence, weather observation/recording.

baking: cookie bars, following the tollhouse cookie recipe, but we like to use whole wheat flour, a spoonful of wheat germ, and a cup or two of oatmeal. we talked about recipes (their purpose and general format), then discussed measuring cups (1 cup, 1/2 cup, 1/4 cup) and how many of the smaller measurements were required to fill the cup.

journal: while the cookie bars baked, elle wrote her name, the date, and drew a hot-air balloon with a face and two happy passengers.

snack: cookie bar, grapes, milk.

lit: where the wild things are (i read; elle helped decode a couple words: max, wild). how much do i love this book?!

tangrams: we discovered that the sun could be a full circle or four quarter-circles; the sails could be a large triangle or a square with a pair of small triangles.


i don't know if she's learning anything, but i'm having oodles of fun.

:)