Cook-a-Book/Nature Fun Friday~ {Hurricanes}

We have had tons of rain this past week and today it was pouring as well.

For Nature study...

A hurricane is gaining strength in the Atlantic so I thought it was a good time to research and learn.

We watched a few weather reports and discussed meteorology as well locating hurricane on our globe~

 Our book for the day was an oldie but goodie: Time of Wonder.

The community in the book endures a hurricane so we gathered supplies to make one.

Through several trials we figured out getting the water spinning 

before adding color allowed us to see the spiral clearly~

 We watched a National Georgraphic documentary while creating a hurricane with cotton balls~

 In the midst of all our discussions and videos, we made a list of facts learned

then copied a few into our journals~

 Next we were off to the kitchen for Cook-a-Book.

We used tortillas as our tornado then melted butter, added blue food coloring

and painted spirals adding cinnamon sugar

then rolled to cook in the microwave~

 I let them cut into pieces to see more spirals and ate it up (actually 2 of them)~

And lastly we watched Nim's Island making it a super Fun Friday!!!

We are SO praying for everyone in the path of the storms out there this weekend

especially my sister and her family.

Cook-a-Book Friday: Dinosaurs~ {Science}

Everyone has loved our Dinosaur chapter in our Apologia Science Book: Land Animals on the Sixth Day.

Our Mystery of History was awesome explaining when Dinosaurs may have been on earth~

We watched Digging Up Dinosaurs Reading Rainbow 

which reminded us of a fabulous Dinosaur Museum we visited in Fuzhou

so we pulled out SJ's China videos

which was perfect because tomorrow is SJ Day (5 years!)~

Our book was one the boys love so we went through and labeled all the dinosaurs we have~

 We also did all the puzzles we own~

 For art we painted stegosauruses and decorated them~

 In the Reading Rainbow we learned all about fossils so for our Cooking project

we used sugar cookies, pressed dinosaurs into them, and painted with colored milk~

 It was a huge hit and the process was SO much better than the product~

Great thing is... doesn't matter if the cookies all baked into big blobs.

They tasted delicious and made our day SO FUN!!!

Looking forward to finishing up this chapter next week.

Fun Friday Turned Cook-a-Book Friday~

Do you know the Laura Numeroff books?

They are have a circular theme and are sequence oriented.

Earlier in the week I had begun thinking about a cooking activity for Friday

and came up with Cook-a-Book Friday.

Then as I was scrolling on IG I saw someone making homemade donuts for their child's birthday.

{I see my own circular story beginning!}...

I remembered making donuts with my kids when I was a teacher so I looked it up online.

Once I found the recipe, I looked for a book to go with it and found

If You Give a Dog a Donut...

(which we don't have)

and that took me to YouTube.

All this starting coming together since we had spent tons of time acclimating Macy into our school day~

She needed a celebration and we did wonder if she liked donuts so~

 We watched the book and gathered all the others we have.

I pulled up the recipe and EK read us the directions while SJ gathered the ingredients~

We used a playdough cone to make the holes and dropped them into the canola oil.

Once they were golden brown

we put one in Macy's bowl and she gobbled it down in a sec~

 For our donuts we drizzled chocolate icing and heaped on the sprinkles~

 I had everyone do one math sheet from their caddy

then we watched the story again and sequenced it on a circle.

This was super easy for EK and SJ but they helped the bitty girls keep up~

With reading, writing, and math done as well as cooking, we called it a FUN Friday

and decided Cook-a-Book is here to stay!!!

Can't wait to think up something for next Friday!