P Week

We are currently making a list of P words.  It is an ongoing list that we add to each day through out the week.  Lillian loves thinking up words to add.  Often we will be out and about or in the van when she thinks of them so they don't always make it on the list, but at least she's thinking about it all the time.  At the end of the week I will tape her list to the wall so it is handy if she wants to refer back to it.  As she tells me a word I try to draw a little picture beside the word so she has a picture clue too. 
We read If You Give a Pig a Pancake and then we made PINK PANCAKES in the shape of a P.  The kids enjoyed them and it was easy to do. 
We have also read Peter Pan and we have Pinocchio out to read tomorrow. 
Another fun activity we did was to pick up PERSIMMONS and then we made PERSIMMON PUDDING. The kids always love it when they get to cook and they were a great help and enjoyed the activity. 
Lillian was sick this week so we still have one activity left to do: PAINT PUMPKINS!  This is fun to do outside and is easy.  I will incorporate math too by getting a variety of sizes and colors of pumpkins so we can sort them different way, group them, add them, and graph them. 
For snack tomorrow we are going to have PEANUTS.  It is fun to get these in the shells for the kids to break.  Most kids don't realize peanuts come in the shell.
Our last activities will be to make PATTERNS using our pattern blocks and cut out shapes I have and to read a fill in the blank chart about PETS.  Then we will make a PICTURE of our PET. It's going to be a busy weekend!