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Kitchen Science: Bread Making

Most of the things we do are open ended, but with cooking it’s science! We take the opportunity to measure and follow instructions. When that’s done we get artsy.

Classics: Felt Collage

The classic felt board is very artistic. It’s a form of collage.

Study: School Recess Improves Behavior

Children who misbehave at school are often punished by having to stay inside at recess. But new research shows that giving children recess actually helps solve behavioral problems in class. From the NYT Well Blog

Routine: Setting the table

I have been longing to get Lou in on setting the table an clearing it. The problem is her height. She’s 2 1/2 so she can hardly reach the kitchen table.

Toddler Oragami

I cut oragami pages into triangles for Lou to collage with, but instead she folded them into shapes. I think she did great.

Rainbow Play Silk

We have played with this silk for over a year now and it is still a huge hit in this house.

Waldorf

For those of you unfamiliar with Waldorf it is a form of education. It came from Germany and is huge on imagination. The classes are filled with art based and visual learning. They also have some kinda special dance classes, which I don’t quite understand called Eurythmy. They seem to dislike technology, at least for younger [...]

Silks Play

Ero (5mos) loves it when I float a play silk over him.

Paper Collage

We have been enjoying glue sticks lately. At around 24 months Lou began getting how to use one. Yesterday I had her point out images she liked and I cut them out.

Window Crayons

These Lyra window crayons are great. They look really pretty against the snow outside.

Essentials – The first table

Montessori people believe in certain dimensions for the perfect table.

Pie Crust Dough

This was the surprise of the week. We made some pie crust dough from our Cooks Illustrated cookbook for some mini quiches.