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The week of January 28th was Harold week, with lots of purple. We enjoyed reading the story, an old favorite because we have the Scholastic DVD of the books. We created our own mural; Ted added both book elements and his own creative touches (like adding a ladder to the apple tree to reach the highest apples). Maddy copied his work valiantly and it came out quite well.
Then she took it the next step further … and now she has a Harold mural on her walls. We have yet to scrub it off, because it’s going to take a very long time. In amongst the scribbles you can make out her renditions of windows and ladders, very cute. (Yes, I took pictures, when she wasn’t looking.)
We took a trip to a teacher supply store (looking for Valentine goodies to give out at a party) and ended up purchasing a planets poster and a multiplication chart poster. The space one is in Ted’s room, and the math one in the hall for reference. He’s loving both of them.
To go with Harold’s pie eating, we pulled out a set of fraction circles from my teacher ed days. Both children enjoyed mixing and matching the pieces to see how they could go together.
Storytime was about groundhogs, and the kids made cute little pop-up puppets of fuzzy balls on sticks, in paper cups.
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