Our first time leading a co-op class

Mikayla's SnowmanHannah's Snowman

The kid's snowman craft

The Cookie Swap

We had a fun morning leading co-op class today. We had a Christmas theme. We made snowmen out of water bottles, rice, fleece, rubber bands, pipe cleaners, and socks turned inside out. The kids seemed to enjoy making them. We also read the Nutcracker and A Christmas Dream. We are planning to see the Christmas Dream Ballet this month as our field trip. It is a Christian version of the Nutcracker. We learned two songs in sign language- Silent Night and Jingle Bells.
We also did a cookie swap that seemed to go well. Now we have way too many yummy cookies...lots of variety. It didn't rain like we thought it would, so the kids were able to go outside and play a bit. Some stayed in and colored some pictures of a Christmas Dream.

Yesterday, the girls helped me pour rice into individual bag. They had to use team work to help get it accomplished. I cut the fleece for them. Then we made sure we had everything we needed for the craft for today.

We also made ritz peanut butter crackers covered in chocolate and vanilla candy coating. Hannah did the vanilla and Mikayla did the chocolate. They had to count out how many we needed for three dozen. We began with how many are in a dozen. Then we had to do that three times for 36 cookies each. Then we had to double it because we needed two crackers for each sandwich. Then we realized we needed seventy-two crackers for each of them to have their three dozen cookies. I snuck a little math in yesterday.

I read them another version of the Nutcracker to get their opinion of which Nutcracker we should read to the co-op. They picked the shorter one of course.

Tomorrow we plan to do some Art projects and maybe cookie some cookies...yum! We will read a few more Christmas stories and maybe watch a Christmas movie. I need some ideas for Christmas math...hum...have to look that up!

Autumn was so sweet today to let me take a nap. She took a 2 hour nap...yah...normally she has a 30 min nap. I was hoping to just lay down for a min...but yah! I took a nap! Those are few and far between these days!