Smores....

We ended our week of camping (we will probably continue it next week also because the kids LOVE it!) with a fire and roasting marshmallows to make Smores. We got out there while it was sunny and by the time we were done we were getting rained on! As soon as we got inside the clouds opened up, thunder and lightening cracked, and the hail came down. Whew, we just missed it. The kids had a great time around the fire.Korina makes marshmallows for me and her......

Clay

To stay in tune with our camping theme, I brought out the clay. Because if your lucky you can find clay out there in the 'wild' and clay is so cool! It gives them a whole new range of things to think about. For one...how the heck are we going to get this into more playable pieces?? They have to scrape and dig to get little bits off. It also feels very different. Cool, slimy, grittier, etc. Jence is working hard trying to break it in half.

Here they are pounding and 'forking'....I added a couple forks and they love making the fork dots.

Dylan has his own little special piece that he smashes and rolls up and re-smashes.

Eeek...bears IN the tent!

I got these super cute masks at Ikea. www.ikea.com I think they are supposed to be dog masks...but to us they are bears...since it is camping week. The bears are Ashley and Jence.

camping..around the room....

For the next few weeks we are going to be talking about camping. At circle today we made a web...it went a little like this.
Tell me what you know about camping.
There are butterflies....when we go with my grampa he gives us a flashlight....we drive around in a truck until we get to the lake.....I catch fish with a fishing pole.....we have tents....we have sleeping bags...it gets dark....there are trees.....we are up in the mountains.....we eat hot dogs and chicken nuggets....

painting on black paper....I put it up high on purpose...not to be mean.
The next couple of days the art will be all about circles.....

painting on bubble wrap and then making prints onto paper....

Quinn is graphing!! They can make shapes with the string and sort the bears. They can sort by size and color....They can also make patterns and sequencing.

camping...around the room.....

The fisher price camper is sooo cool. I added rocks, pinecones, trees, and forest animals. The large sensory tub has rice and the smaller ones still has the beans. I didn't tell them they could...but I know they will eventually mix them together. I will add foresty things as the weeks go on.

I turned the little block table into a puzzle table. They were not using the puzzles at all....now they are!

Dobbers are fun and dobbers are circles!

Cornstarch plus colored water. They are using little droppers to get the water from one place to the next. After awhile Olivia just dumped the water into the cornstarch. That's okay too.