Mar. 9, 2006 - Rice Manipulation. "School" March 9th, 2006

What do you get when you add:

 10 pounds dry rice

 various measuring cups/utensils/funnels

 1 large plastic box

 two very excited, hands on toddlers??

TONS of FUN!!

This is what we did for "school time" today. The girls LOVED it! Originally I was going to use this rice to make Draft Absorbers to keep at the threashold of our doors during this winter, but alas our sewing machine thought it too big a task (humph!) and I had two very large bags of this rice leftover! I had been keeping it anyway, along with the cloth, hoping we could fix the sewing machine eventually and finish the project. Then a few days ago I was reading about some Montessorie ideas from the "Mega Mommy" herself Barbara Curtis, and I thought, YAY!! That's our next project!!

This is a really great hands on way to teach preschoolers the concepts of "more" and "less," as well as fine tuning thier hand eye corrdination and fine motor skills. By transferring from cup to cup ,or pouring into a funnel. I love this Montessorie stuff! The concept of learning through hands on fun projects!! Just so much fun for both "students" and "teacher"!!

** Just an FYI: don't leave two toddlers alone with a large bucket of rice at thier very command...even for FIVE minutes...Look what I came back to:

How the two of them fit inside that box I will never know lol! Silly Monkeys! *giggles* My, how they capture my heart! *sigh*

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Mar. 1, 2006 - School is cool!! Shaving Cream Art (3-1-06)

Today for school we got to finger paint on the dining table with shaving cream!! It was SOOoooo much fun!!! Mommy got this great idea from our Aunt Sherry, our friend's Kayla and Leah's Mommy! We SOOoo LOVE to do "school!" Mommy says it is something about science and art expression mixed together, but we don't really care right now besides that it is SO much fun!! We draw triangles and circles and hearts!

Julia Loves to move forward with both hands right away spreading it all out in an even pattern as far as she can reach, while Megan starts out painting with just one finger, but eventually Megan has both hands covered just like Julia does! By the end of this session, Megan had shaving cream sleeves to be exact! Mommy loves doing this, not only in watching us have so much fun, but also because it leaves her table very shiney and with a surprisingly nice aloe scent! lol!

Mommy says school is always fun like this. I can't wait to see what we will do for tomorrow!!! Bye for now! (((waves)))

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