Tuesday, September 26, 2006

-The girls did not feel like doing circle time, which was a bit of a disappointment for me, as I'd planned out a whole bunch of apple songs and rhymes to do since today is the birthday of John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed).
-We talked about who Johnny Appleseed was and what he did.
-The girls cut apples in half, painted them and made prints.
-They painted their hands red and made apples with the prints of their hands with green thumb prints for the leaves.
-We walked to the library and read a bunch of books. Signed out a bunch of books, including one about Johnny Appleseed.
-Our friends, the Peters, happened to be at the library, so we brought Jul home with us to play for the afternoon.
-The kids played mostly outside, pretending to be fire fighters. The swing set was the fire truck.
-I read a whole stack of the library books we got to the girls, including the one about Johnny Appleseed.
-We added Johnny Appleseed's birthday to our timeline (Astrid wrote it in herself) and she drew a picture of him next to an apple tree. She also pasted on her apple paintings from this morning.
-She was in the mood to add a picture for the finding of the Incan mummy as well, and did so. She drew a picture of an Incan girl, who looked very much like all her other drawings of girls except that she was wearing a very elaborate mask.
-Muirgen glued foam shapes onto a paper.
-Read a chapter of 'Charlotte's Web'.
-Talked about why we don't have feeling in our hair and fingernails which, of course, led to the question "what are nerves?" I tried my best to explain.
-Songs and rhymes at bedtime. Astrid prayed that God would please let her know why our hair and nails were made without nerves.