Easter and the 100th Day

This week we celebrated the 100th day of the year, Passover, and Easter.  We also celebrated dad's return home, made a blueberry pie, and watched a Tall Tales puppet show at the library.

For the 100th day of the year, we built piles of 100 items like pasta, buttons and beads.  We explored different ways we could create 100 cents.  Genevieve made a picture with 100 stickers and we worked together on a book with 100 words as well as patterns with 100 shapes.  We read Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten and created the 100 day hash.  We ended our celebration with a game of Chutes and Ladders, which has 100 spaces.

We read several Passover and Easter books, talking about the traditions and Biblical stories.  Genevieve loves the Matzo Ball Moon and the pictures in A Sweet Passover.  She found The Matzah that Papa Brought Hom havee a little long in it's repetition, but liked the picture hunting for the afikomen.  We compared this tradition to hunting for Easter eggs and talked about the different ways we had read about

She loves Betty Bunny, so we read Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake and Betty Bunny Loves Easter.  We referred to Betty Bunny later when we needed to think about being patient.  We also read a Disney princess board book about Spring and a Snoopy book about the Easter Beagle.  We did lots of egg experiments to go with Easter.  We had great success removing the shells with vinegar and shrinking the inside with corn syrup.  We had less luck pulling the egg into a bottle.  Our matches were extinguished too quickly to heat up the inside.  But Genevieve did have fun using an egg carton and Easter candy to play Mancala.  She also helped decorate for Easter, dye the eggs for her hunt, and did a quick egg hunt in our backyard.