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Josiah makes Muffins

Happy Chef

Hot from the oven

two handed stirring

It seems that Josiah is becoming quite the little chef. We made muffins together this morning, apple cinnamon from the Bread Becker recipe book. He insisted on wearing his apron and adding all of the ingredients himself. He did let me drop the apples in as I cut them up, though.

Starting the Year Off Right

 It was a bit of a challenge getting back to the books today, but we made it.

The best part was probably our read aloud, Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John. I remember seeing it on television years ago. I don't remember it having a Christian theme, but the book definitely does. The issues of salvation and forgiveness are dealt with in a way that kids can really understand. Mine get excited about me reading the next chapter.

Another thing my kids get excited about is helping in the kitchen, so I let Josiah assist with making potato soup tonight. It was not planned, it just sort of happened. I asked him to bring me some potatoes and afterwards he wanted to hand each one to me to peel and chop. Then he wanted to add them to the pot. Then he wanted to help with the stirring and adding other ingredients. He never left me and kept talking about how yummy it was going to be.



 Hannah came in and I got her to wash the dishes that were in the sink while we cooked. She actually likes doing this, too. I like it when a plan comes together (not what happened this time, because I did not plan it), but I also like it when people just come along and offer to help.

Hannah, Please Help Me with My Math

 Hi, would you like to do some math? We have picture cards that represent ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands. I will be the teacher. Say you have 2,475 and 3,645. When you combine them you have 5 thousands, 10 hundreds, 11 tens, and 10 ones. We can't write the number like that. If one of our sections has a 2 digit number, we have to trade to make it 1 digit. In the above picture we have traded our 10 ones for a ten, making our tens a whopping 12! We need to do some more trading.

 Okey, that's good. You traded 10 of your tens for a hundred. Now we have 11 hundreds. Do we need to do moe trading? Yes! You can trade 10 of your hundreds for a thousand leaving you with 6 thousands, 1 hundreds, 2 tens, and zero ones. In other words 6,120. Good Job!

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