For a Monday, today was pretty great!
We read about the Wilder Family's Sunday morning "stacked pancakes" ritual and decided we had to try them. The teacher in me turned this into a science lesson. The girls learned that heat changes things and learned the difference between a reversible change (water to ice back to water) and an irreversible change (pancake batter to pancakes but not back to batter). We put a cup of water into the freezer so we could use different temperatures to reverse the change throughout the day. Then it was time to tackle the pancakes!
In the book, Mother would pull the hotcakes off the griddle and immediately cover them with butter and maple sugar. She would stack them in this way so that the sugar and the butter would get all yummified in between each cake.
We substituted brown sugar since we didn't have maple sugar but I will definitely be buying some for next time!
This was the finished stack. We left 5 plain so that Everett would have some to snack on, too!
They were awesome and Lily declared that I would never need to make them "the other way" again!
Everett loved his even without butter and sugar. Ignorance is bliss!
Back in the classroom, we worked on some basic map skills.
The girls each have a "Busy Box" filled with things they can do independently while I work with someone one-on-one.
Lily created an entire story with these stamps and Josie built lots of fun things with the geometry blocks. Meanwhile, I worked with Ruthie on counting, phonics and handwriting.
We do a lot of "school" together: Calendar time, weather, memory verses, Bible study, history, geography and literature. I then spend about 20-30 minutes each day with each girl working mostly on phonics and math. The big girls also get handwriting practice and Josie gets work with letter, number, color and shape recognition.
Throughout the day, Everett plays with some of the busy box things, sits with me or just makes a mess!
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