Heading Toward Easter
This week, Easter week, we started off with a snow day...yes, a legitimate snow day! None of those during the winter, but on March 25th we got a good 2 inches of snow, enough to make a snowman and pretend to sled, although the snow was so wet that the sled mashed down into it better than it slid on top.
Today we started the morning with alot of reading...Berenstain Bears Easter, a WWE biography on Rey Mysterio (Dakota went to that show on Sunday), a chapter of Leprechauns in Late Winter and then an audio /video on The Easter Story. Afterward, we made Resurrection Rolls. You use Pillsbury biscuits, marshmallows and cinnamon sugar. Heat the oven to 350 and also melt some butter. Roll your marshmallows in melted butter and then cinnamon sugar. Wrap them tightly inside the roll. Seal it up good. The marshmallows represent Christ's body and the roll is the cloth he was wrapped in before being put in the tomb after he died. Bake for 12-15 minutes. when the rolls come out they are still puffy like the marshmallow inside but, just like in the Easter Story, Jesus's body (the marshmallow) has disappeared. Very cool!
The rest of our homeschool day consisted of the basic subjects and a large stencil project with the dollar store hard felt decorations and some poster board. We used the decorations for the stencils and now that we have them on the poster board we are going to paint them and maybe glitter them too.
Tonight we have football practice and I surely hope they cancel due to extremely wet fields. The snow has left the ground in front of our house saturated and I know it will be that way in Pasadena too. The boys will be extra cold out there if they get wet too and I don't even want to think about the mud involved.
Today we started the morning with alot of reading...Berenstain Bears Easter, a WWE biography on Rey Mysterio (Dakota went to that show on Sunday), a chapter of Leprechauns in Late Winter and then an audio /video on The Easter Story. Afterward, we made Resurrection Rolls. You use Pillsbury biscuits, marshmallows and cinnamon sugar. Heat the oven to 350 and also melt some butter. Roll your marshmallows in melted butter and then cinnamon sugar. Wrap them tightly inside the roll. Seal it up good. The marshmallows represent Christ's body and the roll is the cloth he was wrapped in before being put in the tomb after he died. Bake for 12-15 minutes. when the rolls come out they are still puffy like the marshmallow inside but, just like in the Easter Story, Jesus's body (the marshmallow) has disappeared. Very cool!
The rest of our homeschool day consisted of the basic subjects and a large stencil project with the dollar store hard felt decorations and some poster board. We used the decorations for the stencils and now that we have them on the poster board we are going to paint them and maybe glitter them too.
Tonight we have football practice and I surely hope they cancel due to extremely wet fields. The snow has left the ground in front of our house saturated and I know it will be that way in Pasadena too. The boys will be extra cold out there if they get wet too and I don't even want to think about the mud involved.
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