9:45, Opening Circle: Good Morning song. Show and tell time. Darius decided not to do this assignment. I asked if he would tell us about Florida. He’s been sitting on FL since we talked about “F” words. But he didn’t want to. So Lorien brought flowers. She keeps them on the headboard of her bed. Go over “F” words, English word is Farther. Spanish word is Fuego = Fire.
10:20, Creative Time:
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.
10:45, Cooking: 
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!
11:15, Reading Time: We read 3 books again, they were Franklin and Harriet by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark, and Ebb and Flo and the New Friend by Jane Simmons, and The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka paintings by Steve Johnson. Darius really liked the ending of The Frog Prince one. After that we went out and made a montage with pictures of babies from magazines. Then Lorien and Darius stuck a picture of themselves with their siblings on top.
11:30, Snack Time: Wash hands, eat, play.
12:00, Decorating Gingerbread: They came in right after eating so we had to tell them to go back and play for a little bit. They were so excited to decorate. 
12:30, Closing Circle time: Sing Farmer in the Dell and Five little monkeys. Darius also led us in singing 5 little Pumpkins. I had forgotten the words already! Get Family Meal Charts out and talk about how many people liked the different foods on the list. Lorien talked about hers. Darius had lost his. Lorien found out that not many people in our family like mushrooms. But she said that everyone liked pizza. Assign kids to bring stuff for our Family fruit salad, Ask each child to bring one or two pieces of their family’s favorite fruit.
At one point, Leilah and Vanessa were wrestling. I think Leilah is happy here. Vanessa was just loving on her! Trying to give her hugs. It was so cute watching them have so much fun!
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