Happy Good Friday

Let's Bake!

​"My mom says you know what's inside, yummy goody stuff!." -Maxon

With many children out today, we pivoted our plan to better suit three and decided to make it a baking kind of day. Maxon had a recipe and the ingredients at the ready for us - sweet potato and wild blueberry muffins! 

What are the words on the picture?

"It's a recipe!" -Lucia
"It's blueberry muffins." -Maxon

Everyone had so much fun taking turns, sharing, cooperating, and all around working together to add and blend all of the muffin ingredients.

"It's kind of like mashed potatoes." -Janie

"I have sweet potatoes at home." -Lucia

Some of the work was easier than other parts of the process, but we persevered with enthusiasm.

"Can I help you, Maxon? ... It looks gooey, but it looks yummy." -Janie

"I like cinnamon apples." -Lucia

The muffins smelled so delicious! But the taste? The taste might have been offset by precision of following the recipe. We still had fun and got a learning experience out of it. Success knows no path without error!

How do they taste?   

Lucia: Good.

Janie: I don't like it.

​Maxon: Good.

Maxon: The blueberries taste good inside.

Janie: I don't like it. Can I have pretzels?

Lucia: I like it. 

Lucia: I don't like (anymore).

Maxon: Is it because we put too much flour in them?

Janie: Not enough sugar. We didn't put sugar. 

Maxon: Pretzels are salty. Do you want salty?

Maxon: Okay, we'll make something when we come back to school. 
Janie: Like a cake? We should make a cake. ... Cherry.
Melanie: What about a pizza?
Lucia: I don't like cheese. ... I like cheese. ... I don' t like cheese on pizza. ... I like peppers, apples, and chicken.

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Continuing Painting Our Treehouse

"We need to keep painting or Jane will be sad.
She will be sad if there's no paint. ... I wish Jane was here."  -Janie

Lucia started with yellow to continue painting the house. Janie chose red to give another coat of paint to our low level slide. The next color we needed was green. Hmm... How to make green. Maxon and Melanie worked it out and Lucia and Janie joined in to learn about our process in understanding primary and secondary color relationships. The primary colors - red, blue, and yellow - were pointed out and named. Then Maxon and Melanie picked two, and only two, of the three primary colors to mix. Starting with yellow and red, the two colors already in use, Maxon observed that when mixed the resulting (secondary) color was orange. Still needing green, we continued on in our exploration of mixing two primary colors for a new secondary color result. We kept yellow from the first two colors and instead of red chose blue to mix the yellow with. The result was just what we needed. Green! Just what we needed to paint the treetop and the palmfronds of our papier maché tree house. 

"Now everyone can come to our treehouse." -Janie
"And the Angler fish!" -Maxon

Next steps?​  Decorate it!" -Janie

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Friday Fun Day with Rainey A

"Hey, that's how (zigzag) bunnies runaway from foxes!" -Lucia

It's always a pleasure to connect with Rainey Room A at the end of our day on Friday. We learned some new games today too! We started with four corners and ended with an obstacle course. Have a wonderful weekend and Easter holiday!