It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We have been busy making and delivering Christmas presents and cards lately, so many secret surprises.  Candlemaking, wreaths, and paintings.  We've also begun decorating.  Genevieve has painted a snowflake, hung her garland and they both began decorating.  She also painted some additional decorations like a light up box.  At the Christmas tree lighting here in town, she created some ornaments for the tree.  We were able to see the animals as well.  We also have begun reading our favorite Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa books.

When we weren't busy with Christmas activities, we've been talking about the ways animals deal with the cold - from migration and hibernation to color change and finding different foods.  We also talked about how a extra layer, be it fat or fur or feathers, can help keep an animal warm.  We then talked about snow, and used paper snowflakes to talk about six sided symmetry and why snowflakes are hexagons.  Genevieve also found a book she enjoyed about the history of ice cream.  And shipping boxes make excellent imagination boxes, so we've flown to the moon, sailed a boat and built a castle.