The new "hot" toy: Playmobil Circus.
We had such a fun week! We had two hit theme days, dissected frogs and hissing cockroaches, grew bacteria on agar plates, and showed some great creative thinking while playing with figurines.
Here's a few pictures from our week:
The kids loved watching bacteria grow on their agar plates. Each child got to do one and each child did something different: a hand, elbow, foot, ear, chin, belly, knee. We also tried my teeth, the shower curtain and toilet seat. After seeing some of the plates at the end of the week, I think it's safe to say that we'll be spending next week going over how to properly wash hands!
The kids had a great time during Pet Rescue Center Day. Read more about this theme day here.
The group of kids I have right now are very inquisitive. All summer we've been talking about life cycles: we watched our larva morph into painted lady butterflies, flowers, lady bugs, and how a tadpole becomes a frog. To give them a closer look at things, we dissected a frog and hissing cockroaches. The kids asked A LOT of questions and were very interested to see how "the insides" were different from us thanks to our Human Body book.
I did the dissecting of the frog, but I let a few of the older kids dissect the cockroaches. The only child slightly traumatized by the experience was Elizabeth, so gasped and kept her eyes covered nearly the entire dissection.
Thursday night was a late night as my cousin Silvia and I set up activities for Spy Day. The set up time was so worth it because the kids LOVED Spy Day! More to come on that next week.
I'm having a very hard time accepting that the end of summer is coming. The kids have been an absolute joy this summer and have truly just enjoyed being with each other. In the past I've felt like I've had to come up with all sorts of games and activities to keep them busy. This year they've really come up with most of the activities and games on their own and have gotten really creative in the play. I feel like we haven't gotten to nearly half of the activities I had planned, but we've still had a lot of fun and learning.
On the agenda for the upcoming week: I did a toy rotation and brought up toys the kids haven't played with in months, so I'm quite certain there will be quite a bit of time playing with the "new" toys. I'd also like to get a painting day in this week and maybe another theme day as well!