to practice that cutting-on-the-line skill, we cut the egg white (now that we know how to turn the egg white white!) and added a big yellow sticker for the yolk.

the stickers were cut from a roll of adhesive stuff found at the thrift shop.  it was nice and shiny.

 

in cracking an egg, one can find the yolk and the egg white.  how strange that the egg white isn’t really white, eh?

“it’s kind of yellow or clear-white.”  there were all sorts of ideas of how we could turn it white:  we could put it in the freezer, we could put it outside, we could let it sit in the bowl for days, we could cook it.  hmmmm.  we COULD cook it.  we DID cook it.  in 15 second increments, we used the microwave so we could see through the bottom of the bowl.

see that tiny ring of white around the edge?

ooooh, a little more white.

oh boy, we’re close now!  15 more seconds should do it…

complete with a little yolk explosion:  the egg white turned white.  we mixed up another half dozen eggs for snack.

bigger than any real pumpkin we could buy, we made one.

in our tradition of scrounging around and finding orange bits and pieces, we glued it all on a big pumpkin shaped paper (with orange glue too!).

then there was pumpkin drawing, orange paint on the art roller, pumpkin word writing, and a little pumpkin show and tell.

oooooooooo…spooky pumpkin with red light!

 

e week gave room for some elephant fun.  we washed elephants and brushed their teeth, made forests for them, made elephant colored paper all while listening to one elephant went out to play.

(we introduced the concept of a “math sentence” with this color blending activity…seed planting, you know)

nice clean tusks!

watercolor background, black paper dinosaurs, mounted on flat paper.

most children opted for a hill for the dinosaurs to walk on or in front of.

it seems like the dinos are heading off into the sunset…or sunrise.