Spring Break/Themes

Some people are lucky and get to go on vacation or at least out of town for a couple of days.  Then there are the unlucky ones who are sick for 8 days straight.  Yep, you guessed it we were the unlucky ones.  :(  Once again our house got hit hard with coughs, colds, and Addy's 1st asthma attack.  We can summarize the asthma attack as the scariest thing I have ever witnessed, and yet in a weird way I am happy to have the first one under our belt.  Those who know about asthma or at least how asthma affects Addy you know it messes with her mood, sleep and energy levels.  It was a long week.

Let's not dwell on all of this negative.  We tried to do our best and do fun activities at home.  Mostly we called these themes and sometimes themes based on books.  It all started with Addy wanting to paint a rainbow like Max and Ruby from one of her favorite books.  SO throughout the course of the week we had: rainbow,cookie,Old Lady who swallowed snow,old mcdonald, and cars.  We made crafts, snacks, art projects, retold the stories with puppet shows and much much more!!!

Get ready for picture overload.  I don't have vacation pictures to show you, but I do have pictures of our learning/sick (making do) spring break!!

Painting rainbows

finished rainbows

Addy prefers painting with her fingers

painting rainbow fish

finished rainbow fish

rainbow cake

and cupcakes

science, using colored water to make rainbows on ice

Trying to chop the ice

Getting out the big guns...hammer needed

flying ice...goggles were a must too

Making rainbows out of playdough

Give a mouse a cookie theme

Making a story board to re-tell the story

cleaning up the mess just like the mouse in the story

Doing a math activity with chocolate chips

Of course ending our theme with chocolate chip cookies

Making old mcdonald puppets with Carl

Making chick cookies for snack after all of the puppet shows these were much needed

Story board Isaac made to re-tell the story,"the old woman who swallowed some snow"

Car theme

Making race tracks and pit stops with markers and cars

Isaac worked on this and had so many car races...well over an hour and a half of play

driving cars in paint and making tracks

Making red light, green light signs to use to play the game

we had no snack related to cars...but none the less they were cute in this one!