i wish i had better pictures of the finished result, but this is it.

we made paper and plastic bag footballs to punt during p week (a paper bag stuffed with plastic bags and taped up!).

and really, this activity is best seen in action:

 

we were gifted a couple of big boxes of these babies.  one activity was gluing them on a precut P shaped paper.

and by using pink paper, we accomplished a quintuple p project: PINK PUFFY PACKING PELLET P

{puzzle on the table is merely there as an observer, not as a participant}

after everyone got a chance for the pink puffy packing pellet p, we squished them, we tasted them {yes, we did, and some kids liked them as much as popcorn…don’t worry, we cut them off}, we added water to them, we checked to see if they’d float, and eventually we saw how fast we could make them nearly disappear.

 

it was SO SLIMY!

and how interesting it was to find a few true styrofoam pieces.

you can bet we’ll talk about this next month for our earth day conversations!

thanks to some friends who got a new fridge, we had some BIG pieces of bubble wrap.

we cut some up to small individual pieces, and we left some big!

 

hear the pop for yourself!

as soon as i made this tape track on the floor, i wondered why we don’t always have one
(other than the fact that i need to pull up the tape at the end of each week before our cleaning friend comes).

what is it in children that has them KNOW what to do with a simple circular line?

one dad figured it would be 600 times around to make a mile.  
i don’t think anyone made it, but it was fun trying!

 

we do this exercise often…and it is amazing to see the natural progression.  if there is one big o shape on the paper, how many smaller ones can you make inside?  we use pens to ensure a really dark, fine line.

and enter fancy vocabulary:  bigger, biggest, larger, largest, smaller, smallest, order, ascending, descending…

the greatest accomplishment for many was making the “smallest o ever!!!”

it was more exciting to watch than you might think.