Star finders...

After a day of playing space invaders in the space ship we built, we decided that we needed to take in the sights while we were in space. And to do that we needed "star finders". We made kaleidoscopes from some tubes and crayon melting papers (the sky and stars). They went exploring every where. The playroom into another planet and were astronauts setting off to plant their flags.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

Today we made our own ice cream! It was so fun. The kids put the milk, sugar and vanilla in zip lock bags, put that in another bag with ice and salt and shake, shake, shake we had some ice cream. They each were able to eat their ice cream for snack.

3...2...1... BLAST OFF!

Today we imagined what it would be like to go to space. What we would see there, how would we get there, and most important, were the aliens friendly? We didn't seem to know the answers to all of our questions so we decided that we needed a spaceship. Out came the biggest box we could find...
After that was taken care of we decided that we needed to make it blend in with outer space in case we needed to hide from unfriendly aliens. So we made some sparkly stars and painted some planets to disguise the spaceship. The kids had sooo much fun painting the planets and talking about which ones were big and which ones had rings around them. It was great!

They spent all day playing space invaders. They were all so good about taking turns being the astronaut and the aliens. It was so much fun I think we might have to expand on it tomorrow. I will let you all know what I come up with...

Lets Create!

Today we painted with q-tips. It was a fun new way to explore the paint. The kids all got to choose their colors and try to move them around the paper with the q-tip. It's great to watch how they figure these things out. Some of them had no problem using the q-tip like a paint brush, dipping it in the paint and then making a picture with it. Some spent the entire time mixing their colors together with the tips. And some spent the whole time trying to paint the insides of their ears :)

We are joining the CiRcUs

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Friday we took the kids to see the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey's Circus. We saw clowns and elephants the kids were so excited! We got there a few minutes early and were able to go down the stage area to meet some of the performers. I think the boys were most excited for the circus superheros. Elijah and Danny talked about them all day, along with the motorcycles in the cage. It was great to see them all have so much fun! Thanks to the parent helpers that went with us! It made it so much easier to focus on just having fun.

Gardening Week!!!

Last week we learned about gardening. We planted some sunflowers in the backyard The children and I dug the holes for the seeds. Then we took out our rulers and placed the seeds all 8in. apart, we covered them with dirt. The kids learned all about how a plant makes it's food from the sunlight and that all living things need water and food to grow.So we watered our seeds and are waiting for them to grow.