Tide pools
It seemed like a good idea when I planned it... children would happily create tide pools with rocks, sand, and clay while I baked nine dozen rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. The reality was a just a little different. Children did create tide pools with rocks, sand, and clay. I did bake nine dozen dinner rolls. They just didn't happen at the same time. What I didn't figure in were the last-minute errands that needed to happen before the rolls could be baked. I also didn't figure in R. having a melt-down which needed my attention in the middle of the rolls.
G. is the hero of this story. She is my budding baker and really wanted to learn to bake rolls. So she was helping me, and I had just finished teaching her how to make the rolls and put them on the baking sheets when my attention was needed elsewhere. G., with some help from other sisters, made and baked the rest of the rolls. And they were done before dinner time, which doesn't always happen.
Here are the tide pools which everyone did a great job on. We are doing marine science this year, and for the past couple of weeks we have been reading Pagoo by Holling C. Holling, about a hermit crab in a tide pool.
G. is the hero of this story. She is my budding baker and really wanted to learn to bake rolls. So she was helping me, and I had just finished teaching her how to make the rolls and put them on the baking sheets when my attention was needed elsewhere. G., with some help from other sisters, made and baked the rest of the rolls. And they were done before dinner time, which doesn't always happen.
Here are the tide pools which everyone did a great job on. We are doing marine science this year, and for the past couple of weeks we have been reading Pagoo by Holling C. Holling, about a hermit crab in a tide pool.
G.'s
L.'s
An up close view of a snail
Y.
An up close view of a hermit crab
K., who, for some unknown reason, added Stonehenge in his tide pool.
H.'s
TM's
Tomorrow is cleaning and pies. Lots and lots of pies.
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