As the morning was quickly passing us by, I had no real plan for the morning. I was cleaning up my lesson planning for another project and my middle one, kept wanting scissors, tape, glue, etc. As she embarked on her little project, I thought okay, this is how we are going to approach this morning. I laid many different colored construction paper out on the table, scissors and glue. As I anticipated what they were all going to create, their ideas slowly took form. My eldest decided, I guess since we've had the Christmas tree up for two weeks now, it's time to snow. She made, after much frustration, but finally on her own, some snowflakes, which she decorated with markers. My youngest and middle children decided 'glue' was their mode of creativity this morning. My middle child glued and glued she had such a masterpiece of paper and glue at the end I think it weighed ten pounds. My youngest after cutting and gluing some paper, decided that putting glue all over her hands was much more fun and interesting.
Then I had a great idea to tie this snow project in with snack. I made snowflake tortillas and sprinkled them with sugar and cinnamon and others with powdered sugar. I was very impressed with my quick thinking on this one today. They were smelling quite good in the oven, while the girls helped me freeze some fresh parsley. Well somewhere in between, the tortillas burnt. Oh so sad, now what will we have for snack, my eldest said in such dismay, I almost believed that there was nothing in our entire house to eat. Needless to say we never did have the tortillas they went straight to the garbage, but lunch did arrive early.
It was a good day all in all. I love the freedom of homeschooling on days like this. I love the opportunities that arrive, that might otherwise be missed. I love the fact that there is always more to be learned and there are so many ways to learn.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
