Week 7 Lantern Making & rain puddles!

Last week I told the story of Martin the first, a man who lived during the middle ages.  As the story goes, he was a generous & kind man who, when he came upon a poor man shivvering in the streets, cut his cloak in half with his sword & gave the man half so he could warm himself.  In Europe he is celebrated with a feast similar to Thanksgiving/harvest time and many communities have a lantern walk around their neighborhoods or towns to "let their light so shine before men" as Martin did so long ago.  SO!  We used balloons as forms for our tissue paper lanterns!  Messy and oh-so-gooey ;0)  They dried all week & we had our lantern walk this week (pics in next post). 

Thank you to Rachel & Isaac for loaning us a big bag of dress up clothes!  Here, Buzz Lightyear (Silas) works on geometric shapes & lots of letters!

Isaac & Gigi working on their lanterns

Miss Abbie is working on a hat for her great grandma - some day she may teach all of us how to knit :0)

Welcome to Zach!  He's the one hiding behind Josie & Gigi ;0)  He is one of Gigi's brothers - so we have lots of siblings now!

Princess Rachel is working on the geoboard, with Mandolin & Ezra assisting ;0)

Josie is SO excited about all the dress ups!

Nice pose, girlies!

Buzz, Zach & Ezra work on the traintracks with their diggers....

Everyone loves balloons!

Mandolin & Ezra working on their lanterns....

Batman (Isaac) is sorting pretend leaves by color using tongs

Everyone just loves drawing at this shelf - even when the table is clear they use this!

Our book corner is almost always occupied :0)

Rachel loves making little hedgehogs with playdough & acorns

A little rain walk

Mud pies anyone?  Ella is an expert chef!

Serving up mud pie snacks in the drizzly weather is our specialty!

See that puddle back there?

Silas LOVED this puddle!  In fact, I think he went swimming in it ;0)  They loved splashing through with their boots!

We were so thankful to have a change of clothes this last week!