good food

Reminder to self:
foods the girls have enjoyed lately:
Shredded cabbage with dressing
Chick peas with dressing
fish sticks with sweet-sour sauce
zucchini muffins (usual oat muffin recipe substitute zucchini for applesauce
kidney beans
spinach surprise -ground beef cooked with chopped frozen spinach and other veggies, add basil and onion. serve over rice.
home made granola- 7 cups quick oats 1 cup whole oats 1/2 c soy grits 1 c wheat germ 3/4 cup honey 2/3 c oil (mix together over med heat) pour over grains bake at 250 stirring every 20 mins until toasted. (I add nuts to my own bowl.)

I printed out a Western rite Calendar of feast days yesterday and printed out some Bible verses to use with the girls. I also borrowed a set of laminated icons which will be useful for religious education at home. Up to this time we haven't done much in the way of celebrating the various seasons and events of the church calendar beyond Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter. I am looking forward to incorporating more.

Some preschool activities we've done recently
learning the major bones of the human body
we talk and sing about bones as she jumps on the exercise ball, she has a digram by her pace at the table
counting by 1, 2, 5, 10 in English
counting by 1 in Spanish
Spanish songs and poems.
recognising more and less, longer/ shorter, heavier/ lighter, darker/ lighter, same different
attending kids concerts
building towers with a variety of blocks
sorting cards by type
sharing with sister
taking turns

preschool activities:
this is what we've done the past few days.
Stacking graduated blocks
nesting graduated blocks
shape puzzles
tracing shapes
decoding three letter words/ sight words
stamping with fruit using finger paint. (thicker paint would be better.)