Today is…Wednesday
I really like having my established routine. Or rather, I really like having a plan.
Thus, when my routine is interrupted, I can still insert schooling into the day. Not ideal (my kids, and I, do better with uninterrupted routine). However, life is chaos and teaching kids to be adaptable earlier in life is probably important for their growth and development.
Right?
So we started the morning with a story of Jesus, bringing Jarius’s daughter back from the dead. We talked about how Jesus made it possible for all of us to have life again after we die. Giant thought this was good news 🙂
Then we did our message. I asked Giant how boats move. He came up with a few ideas (sails, winds, motors), and then he ran and grabbed yesterday’s Gospel picture. The one about Jesus calming the seas. And pointed out that paddles (like the one in the picture) also move boats. Talk about connecting ideas!
I told Giant that today’s project was making paddleboats, which would push the boat through the water.
Ettin amused himself by sticking chalk in his toes:
Then friends came over! We had lots of fun playing together and practicing sharing 😉
Mommy also made cute snacks:
I think my skill at creating thematic snacks is developing nicely. Thankfully the kids actually noticed that they were eating sailboats before they scarfed down the apples and cheese and begged for more (No, I did not make more sailboats. I just tossed them hunks of cheese and pieces of fruit and cookies. I have only so much energy.)
Life carried on throughout the day as usual. Then right before bathtime, Giant asked me when we were going to make paddle boats.
Question:
Is it helpful to tell the little ones what you planned for the day’s fun project?
Or not?
Because they remember, even when I don’t. Which is both handy, and not so handy.
As it wouldn’t take me much time to throw together a paddle boat (2 dowels taped on either side of a drinking bottle. Propeller made of egg carton taped together and stuck between an elastic suspended between the dowels), I told him we’d make it for baths:
I’m not sure I could have planned it better!
(And the boats (of course I made 2) actually worked quite nicely for a quickly thrown together project.)