Plums

We just finished up week 2, fruit trees, with Mother Goose Time.  Today we learned about the plum.  The girls looked at the monthly poster.  I read them Little Jack Horner and then Addie read it to Elli.  She's really getting good with her sight words and loves reading to her little sister (or anyone else who will listen).  

The girls made their own plum pies.  They had a lot of fun with this craft.  Elli needed help weaving her pie crust, but did all the gluing and paper crumpling by herself.  I have found that I need to use the Little Goose supplement for toddlers less and less with her.  She wants to do everything her big sister does, and insists on doing it all herself.

 After the pies were done the girls played with them.  Addie reenacted Little Jack Horner multiple times, but changed it to Little Addie Horner.

I brought out a sorting pie that we have.  Elli used it to sort colors and to practice counting.

I showed the girls the science card for today.  Unfortunately I didn't have a real plum to show them so we just looked at pictures and the rubber plums from the sorting pie.  The girls worked together to make play dough.  Elli dumped the ingredients into the pan and Addie stirred it until it turned into dough.  Addie loves cooking and has been learning how to safely use the stove.  Once the dough was cooled the girls played with it.  Fresh play dough is always so much better to use.  They played with it so long we didn't finish up the last main activity.  Next week we start animals in the orchard, which I know they will enjoy.