Here are our themes for the week, all of which went into the Word Box, as usual.
peg board
There were also plenty of puzzles this week! Cecilia's princess felt storyboard was also used heavily.
~Circle Time~
Songs and Rhymes
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Peter Piper
Pease Porridge
Polly and Sukey
Pat-a-Cake
The Pancake Song
This Little Piggie
~Foods for P Week~
pita pizzas for lunch...
...and some pigtails!!
pesto tart (it looks great, but it didn't taste as good as it looked to me!)
chicken pot pie - Chris made the crust and put PP on it for pot pie
noodles with pesto
five cheese penne (I leave out the gorgonzola)
pastitso, one of Caroline's all-time favorites
pear crisp - yum!!!
Other foods on the menu: pumpkin fettucine alfredo, pumpkin pancakes, pineapples, pizza, popovers, peas, and probably some other things I can't remember!
~Tea Time~
We read Joseph and Chico, a story about the Pope, while eating painted cookies - shaped like the Pope and the cat in the story!
There is also another book we read this week about the Pope, called Max and Benedict, featuring a bird... so some of our cookies were shaped like birds, too. I got this idea here. Oh, and I used the recipe for pumpkin rollout cookies for the dough!
~Letter Formation~
forming letter Pp using playdough
writing P's in cornmeal
Punch Out the Letter - Capital and Lowercase Pp
~Flower Fairy for Letter P: Pansy~
Caroline's Pansy flower fairy page from the Flower Fairies coloring book
~Saint for Letter P: St. Patrick~
Finished copywork from An Alphabet of Catholic Saints and illustration
~Picture Study: P is for Peacock~
~ABC Virtue of the Week: Patience~
~Activities for P Week~
P is for Painting Pumpkin Pope Cookies
Here are some photos of the girls painting their cookies, as I mentioned above in the Tea Time section.
Max the bird was blue, and Chico the cat was a orange tabby. We also had red for the Pope, although there are a variety of colors in which he could have been dressed! We used a dove cookie cutter, a Halloween cat cookie cutter, and our St. Nicholas cookie cutter.
We left a few plain for the grown-ups! The "paint" is just some powdered sugar mixed with milk and food coloring. The black is a tube of icing.
P is for Parade of Saints
P is for Penguins
They made these penguin potato prints using an idea I came across... you cut a potato in half lengthwise for the body and stamp it using black paint. Then you cut a potato in half crosswise and stamp a white belly on top of the black paint once it has dried. Then the girls glued on details cut from construction paper and painted with watered-down glue to attach squares of white tissue paper for snow and ice.
P is for Puzzle Planks
Cecilia made one as well.
Here's a close-up example. We left them out as a work activity for the rest of the week.
~Cooking Project: P is for Pretzels~
2 comments:
AH the puzzle planks are adorable! I love family fun magazine!
i was expecting another p word to be used as well...
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