Christmas. That's pretty much all we talked about today. No Math at all!
I planned on having the kids make cinnamon ornaments using Calvert's recipe and had them help with the ingredients and everything. I sat them at the table to get ready to cookie-cut their dough and boy, that was a mess! I was getting so frustrated because the dough was so crumbly and even with the smallest cookie cutter, the dough fell apart when I tried t
o trim the excess off. I had the kids throw their mess away and apologized for it. I told them I would try to find a different recipe online to try again next week. I had a fallback though. I brought out the craft we started to prepare a few days ago and they painted their...Christmas magnets!
We used the air dry puffy
dough for that a few days ago and they were dry enough today to paint them. They were extremely happy with the fallback plan.
After lunch, I read Babe a kid-version of The Nutcracker and she was mesmerized. She hadn't heard the full story before, and after I had her recall what the story was about, I surprised her with the fact that tomorrow night I will be taking her and her cousin to the real ballet. Her eyes got so wide and she flipped out. She asked if she'd see the "mean mouse king." How adorable is that?! So yeah, she's excited. As am I. It's been a while since I've seen the show myself.
Babe finished the rest of the day by making more homemade Christmas cards for our special trip next Friday.
And with that, Friday was done! One more week before Christmas!
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