"bumble cake" 5 March

Carsten & Riley ran to the food/cooking center. Carsten immediately picked up boxes of empty food and asked Riley what they were. "This milk?" Carsten would ask, and Riley would laugh and say, "no, crackers!" Definitely coming from our project time when i have them help me decide which ingredients to include. This went on for quite a while. Eventually they brought the food to the kitchen table and started to make their cooking creations there with Anneclaire.



Riley loves the block center. He can always find something new to create each session. Here he made a "peek-a-boo" hole to talk with us through.

The boys reading in the book center.

During our movement time we read Eric Carle's From Head to Toe. The boys made me smile as they acted out the movents of each animal. I think their favorites were the "arch my back like a cat" and "kick my legs like a donkey."

We moved to the piano for Music time, taking turns singing, playing the ivories, and singing along to the Children's Songbook from UsBorne.

Snack Time: crackers, cheese and juice

Riley made his own graham cracker/mozzerella cheese sandwich. He even ate most of it :)

Project Time: the Bumble Cake

Carsten has been wanting to make a "bumble cake" with Riley for the past two weeks. Here, he is showing Riley their next task.
A close-up of our intent: vanilla ice cream scoops, melted chocolate top & bottom of bee, peaches create the stripes, cookie wings, and chocolate chip eyes. Of course we tasted our toppings before putting them on the bumble cake. I believe this is why Riley's bee was a bit different than the picture. He did not want peaches on his cake, though I do believe his bee had six eyes. :)

We tried! :) They did most of the decorating of course!
So maybe the decorating was not as perfect as in the book, but the cakes both disappeared...they must have tasted good!

Outdoor Time: It's been so nice! We drew with chalk for a while. The boys especially enjoyed tracing their shoes with the chalk.

The snow was just hard enough for the boys to walk on it without sinking. Carsten explored the snow, making tracks and trails.

Riley enjoyed stomping the snow with his boots.

Anneclaire happily picked some of the emerging grass.

The last adventure was Riley's idea: gathering pine cones. They had quite the collection by the time our session ended.