Today was letter bread baking day, which was greeted by a loud declaration of "I don't wanna make bread!".. But I found that something as simple as starting to lay out the ingredients and letting him choose which spatula he wanted to use got him interested enough to come to the table, and we managed from there. Strangely enough the highlight of maxs day today was during bread making, when he put a finger full of raw molasses into his mouth. I don't think he was prepared for the strong flavor and the look on his face was priceless. I gave him a finger full of honey as "antidote", and he's been talking about it all day. Also, the assignment was to make letter A bread, but for max it was impossible to make A's without also making a B C and D. So we had alphabet letters for lunch. It was delicious.
I should note that while the bread was rising we recited the letter A tongue twister. It didn't even occur to me that max had no idea what a tongue twister was... He was very curious about it, but I think he was a little disappointed that it didn't have to do with actually twisting your tongue! We also did a marble run. Hehehe, the marble run somehow evolved into max feeding the marbles as food to a digestive system and then it would "poop" them out... He even made me get a dish of water for the "potty". Gotta love boys.
After lunch was the make the letter a's from sticks assignment. When I suggested to max the idea of taking sticks to make letters he looked at me like I had three heads. But he couldn't stand it when I left the A's only partially done, and he had to complete them. In the end we made them out of sticks rocks and pine needles from his nature box.
We ended up keeping his nature box out for a bit so he could make a dinosaur skeleton.
After that was rice bin play, which he loved!
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