After our Renoir puzzle sorting this morning, we continued our various cre-pas and pastel coloring projects. After lunch, the kids pulled the tuning forks and scale off of the shelves again.
The scale and weights have been a wonderful math teaching tool. For example, today Grace filled up one side of the scale with a jar full of buttons. She then used the weights, labeled in grams, on the other side of the scale, until both sides were equal. Adding up the numbers on the 4 weights (40g, 30g, 2g, 1g), she was able to figure out the total weight of the buttons.
Later, it was another match of Renoir Memory, but I had to take over half way as Jack seemed to run out of steam setting up the game, and had no concentration left to play the game.
With the rain delaying our park expedition, and needing a few moments to myself, the kids each got a tray full of pouring and measuring utensils and set to work on their trays with salt and cornmeal. Later, they felt compelled to use cookie cutters, and red and green cookie sprinkles. This is always a sure promise of two things: mess and extended peace. By 3:00pm, the rain had let up, and we were able to head to the library and park.
In the evening, Jack resumed making cornmeal pies, and Grace moved out with her Renoir puzzle to the red room dining table in order to be with the parents and listen to mysteriously important adult conversation. Even Dad got in on the puzzle action, teasing Grace with idea that the puzzle might be finished when she woke up in the morning. :)
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