Week of March 3 and March 10: Crazy Oklahoma weather



We've had a busy two weeks with outside activities, Dr. Seuss week and Rainbow week!

 

The girls and I have had lots of fun feeding and watching the birds.  We've been able to attract goldfinches, house finches, 3 different types of sparrows, cardinals, starlings, robins, woodpeckers, chickadees, jays and even a squirrel!

 The girls love watching the birds in the snow.  Katie is intrigued by their tiny footprints and always wants to pour the bird seed as close to the back door as she can so the birds will come right up to the window to eat.

We had Dr. Seuss week and read The Lorax.

 Then Katie painted truffula trees from the book.

 We also planted seeds for the garden.  Katie helped pour the water,

 watched the dirt pods expand and

 fluffed up the dirt so she could add some seeds.

We've also been working on some handwriting skills since Katie has shown a great interest in writing letters lately.  We're using a program called Handwriting without Tears that incorporates lots of hands on activities.  One of the activities is building capital letters with big lines, little lines, big curves and little curves.  Katie took the pieces and immediately started building letters.  She made the letter P and L right away.

We read The Foot Book for tot school.  The kids painted with their feet,

 searched for the letters of their name on feet cutouts

 and ate a yummy Cat in the Hat snack.

Katie and Audrey played some more with the Handwriting without Tears shapes.

 Katie made the letter L again.

 We read 1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.  Katie used goldfish to practice her counting and number recognition.

We had just the right kind of snow to build a snowman.

 We're getting prepared for gardening!  Katie loves putting on my rubber boots and pretending to garden.

 Rich got me a bird feeding station for my birthday.  Katie helped put it together.

Here's Katie's completed artwork for Dr. Seuss week.

 

 Katie and Daddy made me a delicious strawberry birthday cake.  Gotta love Katie's morning hair!

 Papa and Tina came over to enjoy some birthday cake, too!

We finally had some perfect weather and we took full advantage of it by playing outside and working in the garden.  Audrey loves swinging!

 Katie practiced her scissor skills and made a rainbow!  Audrey loves watching big sister and trying to copy everything she does.

 

Katie also made a cloud and rainbow.

Grandma came over for a visit and we all had fun baking banana blueberry bread and strawberry blueberry bread. 

 Katie helped cut up some strawberries and mash bananas.