France Week: Bonjour!

School is out. Time for a daycare staycation- this week France. 

French food:

We served French toast, crepes with homemade whip cream, baguette, chocolate croissant, Madeleine tea cookies, French fries and for dinner one night, homemade French onion soup (amazing but not beloved by the youngsters). 

Fun cheese tasting activity:

Brie was the winner and goat cheese caused scrunched noses. So proud of the kids for trying something new!

Art projects:

Art by Joel has AMAZING paper cities to print and cut. Free! But not free- you should send a donation. Talent!

Monet water lilies 

Paper square collage flag 

Make your own flag!

Eiffel Tower of straws (idea Cutting Tiny Bites)

Some of our favorite books:

Gus on the Go - a fun vocabulary app from the Apple Store is only $3.99 and very easy for the kids to play. The 6s had fun as well as Mr. 11 year old. The website also has a few free printable a that go along with it. 

Theme Week: Italy

Books we read:

Art Collage:

Alps Mountain Climber:

Tissue Paper Flag:

Foods we Tried:

Spaghetti and Meatballs, Tortellini, Risotto, Gelato, Biscotti, toast with espresso (but really, cocoa for kids) and of course, pizza. Children helped make homemade breadsticks. 

Lil Equestrians

Mr. B's mom told us about Lil Equestrians. A fun morning program for the littles (age 2-5). Learn about farm animals in a very relaxed, hands on way. Chickens, Oreo the bunny, two Arabian horses, dog and cat are all available to the children. When you are waiting for a turn you can paint a pony, ride the zip line or bounce. Too bad this fun camp is moving to Penryn next month!

Warm Up to Two

Tomorrow Mr. C turns two but we won't see him. So we celebrated a day early with some favorites: cupcakes and balloons. 

 

Love this little guy. He is sometimes quiet with the girls, an energetic outdoorsman and always a serious investigator. 

Target Run

The girls are always appropriately enthusiastic when we need to make a target run. Today we went for a new box for the beans (these things have wowed me with their popularity- I will never mock the "sensory bin" idea again). 

So glad I had this big helper along!

Inspiration struck and we were able to practice a few other very important lessons: 1) finding a good bargain 2) finding a good shoe. 

These clearance beauties will be donated to our church youth group shoe drive. 

Bean Box

Earth Day

Lights on, lights off. 

Paperless water coloring out doors. 

Bird house painting. 

Grass crowns with bug stickers.