Enrichment

To supplement our homeschool and socialize a bit, we joined a 10-week enrichment program this semester.  It started in late January and was due to run to the end of March, but thanks to some snow days we just finished up April 8th.

I was on the art team as a teacher, Alice was in the middle school group, and the other 4 were together in upper elementary.  They rotated through Art, Gym and Bible/Lego each meeting.

I didn't take many pictures during the course of the 10 weeks, but we had a nice time.

William greatly enjoyed playing with other boys.

On my three teaching days we painted rocks, made salt dough/painted salt dough and practiced some origami.

I'm still undecided about whether we will participate in the fall.  But for now, I'm happy to have our Friday mornings back, since garage sale season is upon us!

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Crafts and Experiments

 We read that you could fit an entire cup of popcorn into a cup of milk.  So, we tried it.

It worked!  So, we tired water and popcorn, which worked too.  Water and rice did not, so we did not attempt milk and rice.

Emily spied an American Girl doll backpack at the store one day.  While she was admiring it, I thought to myself "I could make that."  So, when I had a bit of time to spare, I cut a template for the front and back out of some scratch paper, then pieced the pockets together from there.

I loved the big zipper pull that i had in my stash.  The heavy decorative pull will be appreciated by Emily I think.

All done.  There are a few things I would change, but I hope she will enjoy playing with her Coral and Coral's new backpack on her birthday.

I also found the motivation to finish the 2 almost finished projects that had been on my sewing desk for months (a pair of oven mitts and a small zipper pouch.) 

Since they were not for anyone special, it was really hard to find the motivation to finish them.

Grace really wanted to pass out mustache lollipops to her enrichment day friends.  I didn't have any black card stock, and ended up fighting colored paper, which was brutal.  Luckily, she only needed 20. They were so funny, I took one of the less than perfect ones for myself.  Juliet opted for lips, and I had plenty of cardstock for that.

I'm rereading some Agatha Christie novels which led to my decision to make Yorkshire pudding.  It was so good.  Since many in my crew opted against them, I ended up getting them for 3 lunches during the week!!

We were poised to do a bacteria experiment, but the dishes are supposed to be kept between 85-100F and there is just nowhere in our house that warm in February.  We'll have to try again once we are truly warm.

It's been a busy, fun kind of few months.

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