Several of you asked what we did for stations last week.
Our timer was set for 10 minutes. The offerings included:
- Copying Erich Henkel’s “Windmill” in oil pastels.
- jumping rope
- picking up quarters with your toes (this was a physical but not aerobic activity to balance the rope jumping, each of which was 5 minutes)
- freerice.com (total 1400 grains donated)
- making a building out of a shoebox (we had a restaurant, a house, a windmill, and a car wash)– later I will assemble these into a town they can play with
- categorizing scents into “for eating” and “for cleaning” (I saturated 6 cotton balls with one of the following liquids: vanilla, acetone, almond extract, water, and vinegar). Then the older kids matched the liquid to its scent
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The pretty bowls for the cotton puffs are delightful in themselves. I love the life in motion photos.
Thanks, friend!
Love it!! You are so creative! I am so doing the scent detective station. And jump roping, yes, most definitely!!
Five minutes was a long time on that one!
The Freerice site is cool! Thanks for sharing.
My kids LOVE it.
On facebook it said “jumping rope picking up quarters with your toes” and I was really stumped as to how to do those things together! 🙂
p.s. Now that I’m a mom of four I’m even more in awe of all the great things you do with your kids!
Ha! Doing that together would indeed be a trick!
So glad MiMi is home with you!