Circle time: We figured out the day and recited the days of the week in English and Spanish. We sang our good morning song. We said the Pledge of Allegiance. We talked about "H" words and our Happy Day picture. I introduced the words I should have on Wednesday: Helado means Ice-cream in Spanish, and Harmony in English. Darius said he already knew what Harmony meant. It was almost right. But they understood very well once we were done talking about it.
Free Craft time: We didn't have much time for this one since we were going to the Library, so Lorien finished writing "H's" in her Journal and Darius worked on a craft with popcicle sticks.
Science: I asked Darius and Lorien to add four drops of food coloring to the glass of cold water and hot water. Then we watched to see how long it took for them it to mix completely into the water. So it appears that this doesn't work. But if you look closely, Darius' color sinks to the bottom (cold water) and Lorien's mixes throughout. (Lorien didn't put her drops of color in the cup at the same time, either). They had a lot of fun with this experiment.
We also discussed hard and soft water. Hard water (we added salt to tap water) prohibited the soap from creating many bubbles. The soft water (just regular tap water) produced an inch more bubbles than the hard water. Lorien and Darius loved shaking their water bottles as hard as they could.
Snack Time: They washed hands, ate, and got to play for a little bit.
Library Time: We forgot to do closing circle time. But the kids are really getting the routine at the library down. They both listen to Story time (Darius sneaked away to give Leilah a kiss). Then they pile into the children's area. Darius heads straight for the computer to look up "Pokemon" and Lorien went to the librarian at the counter to ask for the princess book. She can't check it out since it's reference. Leilah and Vanessa both get board books and read while in the Duo Glider. All while the mommy's look for books that will fit the preschool criteria for the following week.
Family Flag. I got out big painting paper and Lorien and Darius drew their family on their flag and decorated it. They cut fabric and ribbons and glued them on. And then they painted pictures of their family members.
Create Gingerbread Families, 1 ½ cup whole wheat pastry flour, 1 tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt, ½ tsp ginger 1 tsp cinnamon ¼ cup oil, ¼ cup maple syrup, ¼ cup honey, 1 large egg, preheat oven to 350, measure all dry ingredients in bowl and mix well. Measure all wet ingredients into second bowl and mix well. Add two mixtures together. Pour into square pan (8in) and bake for 30-35 min. When cool, roll gingerbread dough into thin slices and provide cookie cutters for children to cut out their families. Decorate with raisins, peanut butter, etc. So this project didn’t really work how I thought it would. But it did give the kids the opportunity to measure ingredients, pour them in a bowl, mix them up, bake it, decorate it and eat it! The part that was weird was it said to bake it before rolling it out. So we did, but it was too dry to roll out afterwards. I would try this again by rolling it out first. Or just get a different recipe! It tasted great! 
Classroom Family Tree, Use Potato Stamps to stamp leaves on the big butcher paper. Paint a brown trunk. Talk about our families and how many are in each of our families. Glue our pictures on the family tree. 
In Order, Read the story of the little red hen then have the children put the pictures in the right order and glue them on paper of how the story occurred. Lorien and Darius really like doing this one. They listened intently and tried really hard to figure out what order the pictures went in. 
Assign Meal Times graph, Survey a lot of people. Ask what their favorite foods are. List the answers on a graph provided for them. As soon as I left to go home Darius started calling people. He even called his Auntie Shawna and Sister Lee. Lorien called the Stolp house and automatically had 9 people to interview! 
Button Sorting, Sort buttons according to color by placing them in the appropriate colored box. We counted how many buttons were in each box. There were 32 red, 10 green, 10 blue and 5 purple. It was a great success.
