Poinsettia Craft

Today we did this poinsettia craft using construction paper, glue and glitter glue. G loves crafts, and we haven't done many lately, so I thought this would be a great week to do a few.

How to Bake an Apple Pie and See the World

This week's Five in a Row book was How to Bake an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman. It was a fun book about traveling to several different world locations to gather ingredients for baking an apple pie. Some of the activities we did to go along with the story were:

1. We looked at a book about Italy, introduced G to some of the major Italian landmarks, and found Italy on the world map.

2. We did the same for France and then built our own Eiffel towers out of popsicle sticks. Daddy was the perfect leader for this project!

3. We found Sri Lanka on the world map.

4. We looked at a book about Jamaica (paying special attention to pictures of sugar cane plants).

5. We found Vermont on the US map.

6. We read a great science book called How Do Apples Grow? by Betsy Maestro.

7. We did a science project: Evaporating the water out of salt water and finding out what was left (salt crystals). G even enjoyed a taste test.
8. We made an apple pie and discussed measurements and fractions as we prepared the pie for baking.

On to Christmas

And just that quickly, Thanksgiving is over and our thoughts go directly to Christmas. G drew this last night. It's one of his first drawings of a person who has a body and not just legs coming out of his head. :-) This is Santa on a sled full of gifts.

Thankful Tree

Here's this year's thankful tree. This year G is thankful for Dad, Me, Grandma, 1234 (numbers?), Uncle Erik, Grant, Plants, Mom, Grandpa, Vitamin D (he likes his new vitamins), God and Kiki (the cat).

Rocket Ship

We had to buy more paper cups because G has been using them like crazy for his creations. So here's his first creation with the new cups. :-)

7 Things Meme...

Ok, so what the heck is a meme? Since my friend, Kimberly at Altering Life tagged me, I'll give 'er a whirl:

7 Things I Can Do:

1) Knit & Crochet
2) A bit of Karate
3) Bake bread (I baked my first the other day)
4) Keep a reasonable workout schedule
5) Homeschool my boy
6) Continually learn
7) Play a bit of piano


7 Things I Can't Do

1) Spend money on myself.
2) Get pregnant.
3) Get by on 6 hours of sleep per night (like my husband does).
4) Pass up a piece of cake.
5) Remember to floss EVERY day.
6) Live without my computer.
7) Fake interest in electronics or computer programming (just ask DH).


7 Things that attracted me to my husband:

1) He was super cute!
2) He was smart.
3) He had nice muscular legs (I'm a leg girl).
4) He was funny.
5) He had pretty eyes.
6) He smelled good.
7) He was fun to talk to.


7 things I say most often:

1) C'mon (G likes to take his time when we're out and about).
2) You're so cute, I just want to eat ya!
3) I love you.
4) I'm SO cold!
5) Nice job!
6) How was your day?
7) What up, foo?


7 Celebrity Admirations:

1) Jenifer Aniston's hot bod
2) Madonna's hot bod
3) Kirk Cameron's bold stand for his faith
4) Britney's Smile
5) Ummmm...
6) This is a
7) hard one.


7 Favorite foods:

1) So you already know about my cake fetish.
2) Fettuccine Alfredo
3) Banana, peanut butter, tortilla wrap
4) Peanut butter captain crunch (which I almost never eat).
5) Grandma's strawberry jam
6) Pork chops
7) Steamed veggies


7 People to tag:

1) Uhhh...I don't really know very many people on here yet.

This Week's Theme: Cranberry Thanksgiving

Our Five in a Row book this week was Cranberry Thanksgiving by Harry Devlin. It was a fun holiday book with lots of great activities to go along. Some of the activities we did this week to go with the story were:

1) We tried fresh, whole cranberries and dried cranberries for a snack.

2) We talked about nicknames.

3) Our Bible verse for the week was "Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 It went perfectly with the way the grandmother in the story judges Mr. Whiskers by the way he looks.

4) One of the illustrations is done in silhouette, so we talked about what a silhouette is and made

our own silhouettes using a bright light and G's easel paper. We also took a photo using the

silhouette technique.

5) For science, we did a project to find out how an alkaline ingredient like baking soda would react with an acidic ingredient like yogurt, lemon juice or vinegar. We found that it makes bubbles of carbon dioxide, and that's what makes a cake rise when baking.

6) We made Grandmother's famous Cranberry Bread. The recipe was at the end of the book.