ECC Week 6 Day 3 MEXICO

Its a good thing I'm not allergic to tissue paper flowers or I fear I would be ODing on some type of allergy med about now. I taught the girls how to make tissue paper flowers yesterday and I think they have made another 40 of them since then. Its out of control I tell ya. I need to stage an intervention of some sort!
Oh well, it could be worse right? And they ARE pretty...but our limited space tells me these flowers may be the short-lived variety...

Anyway, we didnt really have much school today to do outside of the normal 3 R's.
We colored the Mexican flag today and the older 3 each wrote down a little info about Mexico on the bottom of the page.

And last night, the girls asked me to print out some coloring pages on Mexico so they could color them, and then use them to decorate the school room for our fiesta, which is tomorrow. (You can see a TINY amount of the flowers that now take up residence here).

Here is the final product.

We also made our pinata today.

Putting the loot in....

We have several food allergies here and a few that are sensitive to dyes which made filling this bag a little tricky...but thanks to Whole Foods and finding some cheap little toys at the Dollar Tree I managed to make a fun little stash for them...

The finished pinata-they all thought it was great fun to walk under (probably hoping it would spontaneously burst)...

It was a beautiful day today so we had a little recess time after lunch....

Josh, if you didnt know, is CRAZY about Thomas the Tank Engine...

He always has to check it out....

Make the proper seat adjustments....

And check out the 'guts' of the machine....

This was our read aloud book today...

We are so excited to be having our fiesta tomorrow! I back decorations and balloons at the Dollar Tree and we will be making Mexican food tomorrow and listening to Mexican music.

Come back tomorrow for pictures!