Yesterday we made sparkly play dough....here is Keyan playing with the finished product today!

Happy 4th birthday to Grant!!!

Waiting......

finally the finished product!

school sweethearts

laying out the cookies

Ms. Stacie let them lick their fingers when their turn was over...then it was off to wash hands!

What is with My son's face in this picture...not quite sure?

making chocolate chip cookies

waiting for a turn

so sweet

Our January cooking projects!

W decided to make play dough that resembled snow!

I love this shot of Katelyn...she is growing up so fast

Dalton pouring the water

Mateo mixing up the slimy stuff

Puttin some ingredients into the sauce pan...the stove was not on!

more from party day

Mateo's Birthday Party!!

What a smile

Party snack!

Here is Mateo choosing out of the birthday bag...he was just a tad bit excited..lol!

Here is his four year old award

I love this picture of Keyan

Katelyn tracing a New Year's wish in Chinese

"J" cut and paste

"J" tracing

"J" stamping

snowflake stamping...originally it was to decorate the mittens but the kids ended up cutting the individual snowflakes out. As Maria Montessori said " follow the child..."

Counters for various math activities include icicles and snowballs

A close up of the penguin math...they have numbers on their bellies

Using a garlic press to squeeze water out of tiny pieces of sponge!

This work is pretty challenging...they put straight pins through the holes in this cheese shaker.

The very popular salt work....very messy!

Tonging pom poms but with a new skill...patterning!

Tweezing snowman

spooning snowballs

This is a new math activity using felt penguins and felt fish