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Our next book was supposed to be Katy and the Big Snow, but ended up being If You Give a Moose a Muffin. We had slacked off on the ‘fun stuff’ for the past few weeks, and I was trying to rejuvenate our lesson plans. I think we pulled it out because we were cooking a batch of muffins. Of course then I had to hunt up some jam to eat with the muffins…
We also did a lot with space this week. The Messenger probe reached Mercury that Monday, and we looked at it in the paper. Then we talked about the order of the planets, and how the planets orbit the sun. Fun ensued as we sat Maddy in the middle of the rug to be the sun, and had Teddy walk around her in circles to be different planets. Then I went around Ted to be the moon, as he went around Maddy. Then we had to try spinning while orbiting. It got crazy fast! We all took turns being the different parts. Later in the week we pasted a set of Wallies on Ted’s wall; I’d been saving them for a while. It was a whole solar system set, and the kids had fun matching the Wallies to the pictures in Ted’s space book (a Christmas gift from his aunt Tammy) to see what order they should go in. It was also a nice counting lesson for Madeline, as we soaked them in water for the required number of seconds. (And Ted learned how many seconds make up a minute, a fact which he surprised me with some days later, when he multiplied three minutes times 60 and told me how many seconds it would be, timing a recipe we were cooking.)
Storytime was fun, a snowy story set. Zoo Flakes ABC was a big hit and very cute to look at; highly recommended if you’re into snowflakes and your library has it. Later in the week our friend Jennifer came to visit, bringing her violin and giving the kids mini music lessons on violin and piano while I went grocery shopping. They loved it. Ted learned to play Hot Cross Buns on the piano.
