December 10th

Circle Time: Pledge of Allegiance, Good Morning Song, Calendar, English word of the day (that's really french): Noel, Spanish word of the day: Nada (the kids had fun with that one, Lorien quized me when we got home by asking me what was on the table and in my hand.)

Reading and Writing: The kids read and wrote the following words: nest, net, new, news, newt, next, nick, ninja.

Craft Time: I had them made a night time snow scene. We folded paper and cut out triangles to make snow flakes. The little triangle pieces were used as tiny snow and we cut sparkly fabric for the stars. Lorien went to town making snowflakes, while Darius lost intrest very quickly. (I realized that I should have found a science project for them to do instead!) Darius decided to do the huge United States of America puzzle. When Lorien was finished with her craft, she decided to play with the Magni-tiles. She build a giant tower. It was pretty amazing.

Math: Darius has been showing a great intrest in math. He's been doing quite difficult problems adding a single digit to a double digit. So I made cards with numbers on them and made a plus and minus sign out of paper. Then they got to make their own equation up and figure it out. Darius figured the answers out in his head, while Lorien and I counted on our fingers. I'll be working on Math with Lorien at home.

Reading: Eyes, Nose, Fingers, and Toes by Judy Hindley illustrated by Brita Granstrom, The Whole Night Through by David Frampton.

Closing Circle: We had to do Jack be Nimble about 5 times. We jumped over the imaginary candle. Darius didn't want to stop! It was fun. Lorien suggested we stretched. So we reached to the sky and to our toes and made butterflies with our leggs. It was a good closing time. Lorien did not want to go!