Cooking Rolled Up French Toast

             This week for our special snack we made french toast. 
          I found the inspiration at Cinnamon Spice & Everything Nice.
                        
                                    Our recipe.
 
       Roll the bread flat (I removed the crusts beforehand).
 
                              Spread jam on the bread.
 
                        Roll the bread up like a snail.
 
                     Dip into the egg and cinnamon mixture.
 
                                Cook, wait, then enjoy.

More Worm Play

   
              Fake worms, sticks and stones and coffee grounds.
       
Plus slime made from the Borax recipe.I added brown paint to get the colour.
                   
         
              

Final Train Destination

Last week we wrapped up our focus on trains by visiting the only train we
                         have in our community.
 
We started with a scavenger hunt to find the bell, the light and firebox.  Also
          count the wheels and measure their height against the wheels.
        
                  
           
 

Back at school, before we left, we painted cardboard tunnels for the train
                                       to go through.
  
Our tunnels were a little small for that big train but perfect for the train
                      that my husband brought to play with.
  
  
  
He loves trains, has all his life.  At home he has model trains set up in one
   room and now he is beginning a garden railway with this larger scale.
         
           He had fun watching the children watching the train.

  
Knowing that the children would want to touch my husband's train I brought
               a smaller toy train that they could play with.


                     
Wooden train whistles from a dollar store made a nice keepsake for each child.

Tubes, Tunnels and Mazes

Last week I brought in PVC pipes and connectors with magnets attached
                    to the backs of the connectors.
                    
The idea is that the tubes would be tunnels for the big pipe cleaner
                         worms that were included.
 
I set it on the floor beside our worm composter but either the
    children didn't notice it or they weren’t that interested.

Only a couple of children attempted to put them together
                   during the whole week.

                 
This week I moved the metal board and tunnels to the sensory table
         and switched the pipe cleaners to marbles.
 
             
The children were instantly attracted and tried a variety of combinations
           of the tubes and connectors to make a maze.
        
The toddlers were also fascinated with the marbles and when they can drop
                  them into something it is even better.
     
I wasn’t sure if she knew what happened to the marbles after she dropped
them in.  We had her look into the tube, which she was happy to do but wasn’t
interested in the other end.  She was interested in dropping one marble at a time,
again and again and again.