Hurricane Irene

I haven't had Internet in almost two weeks! Finally blogging from work (the first day of school was postponed by three days), here is what we've been doing:

FD lessons 1, 2, 3 a b c from Form Drawing Grades 1 through 4

"Who's Under the Blanket" and "Water Bird" games from Games Children Play

Watercolor painting single colors (verses from Eric Fairman's POD volume 1: grade 1) and then color stories for Little Blue and Little Yellow on the playground from Kelly Morrow's watercolor painting DVD

Circle time verses "Five Little Soldiers" and "See the Little Ducks" from POD 1

Greek Myth "Echo"

Gardening: set up the worm bin!

Cooking: harvesting rosemary and drying it in the microwave

Storybook Art:
Pigs from A to Z
How Thunder and Lightning Came to Be
Barnyard Banter

Handwork - sewing felt beanbags with barnyard animal decorations (patterns from Around the World with Finger Puppet Animals by Suzanne Down)