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Christmas Cookies

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December 25, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

We made several kinds of Christmas cookies this week.

Here is an amazing Peanut Butter cookie. 

It was on the package of my new Nordic Ware baking pans!

Peanut Butter Cookies
Little Helper Elf

I had a little elf helping…

Who knew he’d like cream cheese icing?

Little Mocha

Look at that proud face with his first big boy mocha!

He was so pleased to help in the kitchen.

Some of our favorites:

chocolate spice cookies
THE BEST chocolate chip cookies

The girls really loved these “snowball cookies” or Danish wedding cookies.

Danish wedding cookies or “snowballs”
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Snowball Cookies

Course Dessert
Cuisine Holiday

Ingredients

  • 1 c unsalted butter softened
  • 1/2 c confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 2 1/4 c AP flour
  • 1 c chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts) chopped
  • confectioner’s sugar for rolling baked cookies in

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and slowly add flour and mix until just combined. Fold in chopped pecans, beating at low speed, scraping bowl as necessary, until well mixed.
  3. Roll dough into little balls. Place on prepared cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Chilling the dough for 30 minutes in the fridge helps the cookies stay round but we are never that patient!
  4. Bake cookies for 14 – 15 minutes until bottoms are just slightly brown.
  5. Remove from oven and cool on cooling rack until you can handle them comfortably with your hands.
  6. While cookies are still warm, roll them in icing sugar. Place cookies on cooling rack, once they have cooled completely, roll them in icing sugar again. Store cookies in an airtight container for up to 3 days or freeze for up to one month.

Happy Holidays!

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Christmas Tea Party

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December 23, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We had a family Christmas tea this afternoon.

The kids love having tea. They picked a holiday blend from B&N.

I decorated the table with candles and festive little plates and our Lenox serving pieces that I am slowly collecting. They thought it was real fancy.

Christmas Tea

We had cheese and crackers, apple slices, baby carrots, Pepperidge Farm Gingerbread people (cuz we haven’t baked any holiday cookies yet and they are adorable), homemade toffee, almond clusters, and peppermints.

Christmas Tea Party

We listened to symphonic Christmas carols.

I read from Holly Hobbie’s Christmas book.

This book was mine when I was just a wee lass. I love her. I have a couple dolls still too.

As my kids get older, we still love tea time with poetry and music. It’s fun to have themes and even dress up. Decorating the table scape is fun for my kids. We all have favorite teas and we have different cups and teapots and pretty little dishes.

Merry Christmas!

Resources:

  • Lenox Winter Greetings Teacup
  • Lenox Holiday Tartan Gold-Banded Carved Teapot
  • Lenox Holiday Nouveau Tablecloth
  • Spode Christmas Tree Candy Cane Teapot
  • Spode Christmas Tree Collection Teacup and Saucer Set
  • Holly Hobbie’s Christmas book
  • A Cup of Christmas Tea by Tom Hegg 
  • Twinings Christmas Black Tea
  • Harney & Sons Holiday Tea
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Homemade Play Dough

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December 16, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We’ve been having lots of fun with Christmas activities this week…

Tori’s gingerbread play dough reindeer…
Gingerbread Playdough Reindeer
Santa paper plate packing popcorn craft. I used googly eyes, a pink pom pom for the nose, and a shaped pipe cleaner for the mouth
Santa Plate Craft
Tori and Katie pretend to eat their gingerbread babies…
Pretending to Eat Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread Baby
They pasted their eaten gingerbread babies in their booklets.
Gingerbread Baby Booklets

We made homemade play dough!

Homemade Play Dough
I made gingerbread play dough (with spices smells great!) and snow play dough (plain with sparkly glitter).
 
We broke out the cookie cutters and played with play dough for quite a long time this morning.
 
Preschool girls loved playing with the yummy smelling playdough.
Katie did not like to be interrupted for a picture.
Gingerbread Play Dough
Toddler Alex thought all this was just awesome.
Toddler Play Dough Time
Even the Big Girl Elizabeth had to play with the play dough!
She showed off her “cookies.”
Big Girl Play Dough Time

Super easy play dough recipe:

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Play Dough

Ingredients

  • 2 cups AP flour
  • 2 cups warm water
  • 1 cup salt
  • 2 T vegetable oil
  • 1 T cream of tartar

Instructions

  1. Mix ingredients gently, folding all the flour in, over low/medium heat in a nonstick pan until formed into a ball.

    Knead carefully (it’s hot!) until desired elasticity.

Add stuff:

Spices. Sprinkle in some cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger for gingerbread play dough – or apple pie spice or pumpkin pie spice – or whatever you love.

Essential Oil. We love using Citrus, Peppermint, or Lavender.

Glitter or Food Coloring. Sparkle and color just add to the fun!

My kids like to play with the play dough while it’s still warm.

How to Use:

We use all sorts of fun tools like real cookie cutters (love these alphabet and numbers cookie cutters!), rolling pins, dough tools that extrude, squish, and cut it.

We have two Activity Centers that provide stencils and working surfaces to keep my floor clean.

Store in an airtight container or zipper bag. We keep ours in the fridge to stay fresh longer.

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Sledding

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December 16, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Finally, we have snow!

We went to a neighborhood park while Elizabeth was at her music lessons. Tori was proud of her snowball. She wanted to bring it home and put it in the freezer. That reminds me of an Arthur episode where DW does that…

Snowball
Snow Girl

Alex and Katie pelted me with snow!

Snowball Boy
Aiming with Snowballs

Alex does not like sledding downhill, but he loved being pulled around on level ground.

Sledding Boy

Katie is the daredevil who loved sliding downhill. She wants to find a really BIG hill…

Daredevil

Tori was crazy too. Surprised she stayed on her knees and didn’t fall over!

Knee Boarding
 We had lots of fun in just an hour, waiting for big sister!
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Christmas Sensory Bin

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December 12, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

My husband created a sensory table for us!

I put a Christmas sensory bin in there and Alex LOVES it! (So does Tori!)

Christmas Sensory Bin
Christmas Sensory Bin Play

I have glittery pom poms, red and white beans, green glass rocks, glitter tree stickers, 12 Days of Christmas and Nativity printables (scaled down and laminated), a tree ice cube tray, two Santa candy holders, jingle bells…

Resources:

  • Red spoons
  • Glass Flat Marble Beads
  • Plastic theme cups
  • Measuring Cups & Spoons
  • Jingle Bells
  • Craft Pom Poms
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First Snow

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November 28, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We’ve added calendar notebooks to our morning time.
I’ve just been waiting for my little girlies to be ready for this!
We’ve pulled ideas from Mama Jenn and 1+1+1=1.
Kindergarten Circle Time

Our first snow…This is the Snow Bunny with Tori.

Snow Bunny

 
Katie was getting a snowball ready and I hurried on outta there.
Snowball Fight
We’ve been busy with You Can Read and RRSK.
 
We were sick all last week, which made for a not so fun Thanksgiving. We had dinner on Saturday because that was the final day we could cook that bird before it ruined. We are ready for the Advent season!
 
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New Light Table

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November 28, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

Here is Katie playing Toca Boca Tea Party app with Alex. He is rather possessive of his Tea Party.

Toca Boca Tea Party App

We’ve been continuing with out letter of the week with Tot School printables, but Alex isn’t really into all that  too much yet. He is learning his letters and colors though.

He loves to cook and play kitchen.

Daddy made us a new light box!

(All it is a plastic bin with rope lights. Daddy cut a hole in the side for the cord.)
DIY Light Table

Sorting Christmas tree branches by their colored tips. I love Alex’s expression here. I don’t know why he looked so mad, but he’s so cute!

Setting Up the Christmas Tree
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Kindergarten Fall Update

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November 4, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

A Kindergarten update before the holidays.

Tori and Katie so graciously allow Bubba to “write” in their clay like ancient Hittites with a “stylus” (chopstick).

All the kids really enjoyed this activity from Tapestry of Grace.

History Project with Clay and Stylus

The end of the soccer season. Awards ceremony tonight.

Soccer Girl

Tori loved scooping out her jack o’lantern.

Jack O Lantern

Katie did not.

Icky Pumpkin

Tori as a lovely Chinese princess for a Halloween party with Daddy. (I found THREE Chinese dresses at a thrift store for the girls! Amazing!)

Chinese Princess

Katie and Alex sharing a sucker moment.

Lollipops

We’re loving the You Can Read program and the Raising Rock Stars Kindergarten printables from 1+1+1=1. My only issue is that the girls complete their pages super fast!

We’ve also enjoyed some activity packs about fall and firefighters and monsters and pumpkins (oh my!) from Homeschool Creations and 1+1+1=1. The girls’ favorite activity is the graphing with printable dice.

We completed some experiments from our Apologia Swimming Creatures book. The girls have this class at our homeschool co-op, but they’ve been doing other activities.

We’re reviewing the Imagination Station book series. Stay tuned for a giveaway!

 
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Fall Leaves Unit Study

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October 11, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 4 Comments

We found some pretty leaves and some nice pinecones, acorns, and samaras. Few trees are changing colors yet.

I captured a few quiet moments to do some leaf rubbings and still life drawings.

Fall Nature Study

Elizabeth focused on the acorns.

Drawing Acorns

Katie enjoyed the leaf rubbings and really wanted to do a rubbing of the acorn, but it was too “fat.” haha

Leaf Rubbing

I love the concentration on Tori’s face here.

Drawing Seed Pods

Alex was quite fascinated by the leaf rubbings and enjoyed his abstract drawing of leaves. He was too quick for me to get a picture in action!

Toddler Leaf Drawing

More Fall Fun:

  • More Nature Study Fun!
  • Fall Crafts and Activities!
  • Fun leaf crafts
  • Fall unit study
  • Favorite Fall Books
  • Apple unit study
  • Pumpkin unit study
  • Leaf Study from The Homeschool Scientist
  • The Enchanted Homeschooling Mom Leaf Study
  • Living Montessori Now Leaf Study
  • Falling Leaves Study from Home Hearts
  • Lots of ideas for Fall Leaf Studies at The Handbook of Nature Study blog!
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Kindergarten Games

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September 11, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Victoria and Katherine are excited to be in Kindergarten.

They are growing up so fast!

Here they are, having fun while graphing our rainforest animals from our rainforest unit from 2TeachingMommies.

We’re loving our Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center.

Our calendar this month is all about the rainforest too!

Rainforest Game
Rainforest Dice Tally Game
Tori had her first soccer game this week! Katie will join her next year, probably on the same team (for my scheduling sanity).

Right now, since Katie is still four, she’s on a Smart Start team that only practices once a week, no games.

Soccer Player

The kids had fun reading Pete’s a Pizza.

I plan to start using Draw Write Now this week.

We’re planning to start back up with You Can Read.

We’ll probably need to review the first few units we started last spring. They’re about a quarter of the way through Funnix reading and math. We’re loving Greek mythology in Tapestry of Grace right now.

We’re starting science this week to keep up with co-op. I’m hoping to keep a better school schedule for the remainder of this month and include some fun stuff too! We need to start using our workboxes again.

We started participating in a weekly homeschool co-op last Thursday. I think the girls really loved it. There are three “classes” in the morning, then lunch, then PE.

The girls are in an Apologia Swimming Creatures experiment class, The Young Peacemaker, and geography (with a focus on missions!).

In a way, I don’t like not being with them every minute until after noon, especially since they weren’t able to tell me what all they did. The parents all rotate as helpers/teachers in the classes, so I will be in their classes occasionally.

Kindergarten is a busy year!

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