Planning

Two weeks off gave me a great opportunity to plan. This year I've tried to plan a month in advance, generally for art and story ideas, keeping in mind that it could change at any given time depending on what is happening around us.
So here are my plans for January thus far;

January 2011 Crafts

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
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2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	closed	Spin art mittens – hang from tree branch	Animal stamps on a mitten shape	Mitten prints – wear a pair of mittens to make a painted print	‘knit” mittens
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
	Bubble wrap snow painting	Confetti snow art	Cupcake liner snowflakes	Pringle container black and white painting	Screen painting
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
	Potato masher snowmen	Paper plate snowmen	Melting snowmen with puffy paint Potluck	Torn tissue paper collage with shades of whites and blues	White glue blob snowmen
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
	Collage materials to build trees			Family Literacy Day
30	31
	Watercolour and salt painting

January 2011 Stories

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
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2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Story - 3 Little Kittens Sign of the week – cat Song – A Mitten	Closed	The Missing Mitten Mystery by Steven Kellogg A Kitten Tale by Eric Rohm	The Mitten by Jan Brett Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone	Jill Colourful Mittens	One Mitten by Kristine O’connell
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Song – Itsy Bitsy Snowflake Fairytale – The Princess and the Pea Sign of the week - snow	Mouse’s first snow by Lauren Thompson The Princess and the Pea	When Will It Snow By Marty Crisp	Snow Dance By Lezlie Evans	Mama, will it snow tonight? By Nancy White Carlstrom	The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Song – I Wish I Was A Snowman Sign of the week – hat Story -	All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle	Snow Friends by M. Christina Butler	Hello, Snow by Hope Vestergaard	Snowballs by Lois Ehlert	The Biggest, Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Fairytale – Why the Evergreens Never Lose their Leaves Sign of the week – tree Song -	In the Tree by Zoe Sharp	Log Hotel by Anne Schreiber	We planted a tree by Diane Muldrow	The Tree House by Marije Tolman	The Little Green Pea by Alison Barber
30	31
Fairytale – Goldilocks and the 3 Bears