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Our first unit of March was Make Way for Ducklings, always a favorite. We have the book and the Scholastic video, which was a nice change-up. We put our story disk on Boston. Coincidentally, the newspaper had a story this week about the Old North Church, so we looked at those pictures and then saved the article for when we do Paul Revere.

We got an email from Grandma in Hawaii, very exciting! And more dear friends, Tim and Karen, had their third child, a boy named James. Welcome, James! Two new babies to cherish ... very exciting. The kids can't wait to play with them. We got to see baby James at the hospital, visiting very briefly after storytime.

Storytime was Jerry Pinkney's The Little Red Hen, accompanied by butter making. She had two large jars of cream for everyone to take turns shaking, and then bread to snack on with the butter, after. Yum! We've also been checking out Magic School Bus videos from the library; this time the kids picked the one on Bees.

Friday was a t-shirt decorating party for our play co-op. A little chaotic but fun. Ours didn't get properly ironed (I was hasty, as there was a line) and I've learned a valuable lesson ... do not put wax paper over it to iron it down further at home ... the wax paper gets glued to it. A few trips through the washer helped the paper come off, but the lettering isn't as good as it should be, now. Oh well.

Over the weekend was another Lowe's workshop, this time building a periscope!