Team baking

A great day today with a smaller group of ten. 
Much more manageable!
Peyton and I's sanity stayed intact.

We started the morning off with some circle time and catching up on what the girls have been doing, anything they have coming up and some of the frustrations from the week before.







It all came back to being respectful if someone is talking and listening to other's ideas.

Vivienne's creation with wings and feathers

We also went over our THINK card that I'd sent in the mail to reinforce the importance of thinking about what we say and how we say it before we say it.


After saving up a few toilet paper rolls I decided we needed to make a craft with them.


I made a butterfly as an example but I also showed some photos of googly eyed monsters and fluffy birds and left them the option to create their own creature.

Mia's magnificent butterfly

They came up with some really fun things and seemed to have fun doing it!
And, we always have some good banter and some laughs while crafting.

Next, we broke up into two teams for our cookie baking challenge.
They were supplied a recipe and they had to go shopping for ingredients and then measure everything accurately and mix them in the proper order.

It was a good opportunity to talk about how important it is to read things carefully and take time to do things the right way. In this case, if we rushed through and put too much or too little of an ingredient in, the cookies would taste bad.

Mia was quite the confident baker and we thought that some day she'd open her own shop called "Mia's Muffins".

The girls worked well together as a team and mixed everything up just right. As the cookies baked they had a snack and 10 minutes later they tasted their cookies.

Team one thought theirs tasted better and Team two thought theirs tasted better. Interesting.

Onto another quick teamwork game of "Don't Say It".
The point of the game is to describe the word at the top
of the card but without using the three words listed below.

As much as these girls can gab and tell elaborate stories, I was surprised that they were totally stumped when it came to this game.
We'd say go and they couldn't come up with anything!

I gave them all hints and they started to get the hang of it but really, it was a pretty quiet game that ended up in a tie.

I mentioned, if only we stopped ourselves and were that thoughtful in our regular conversations we would likely talk a lot less!






Time to do a bit of running so we headed to the park. First they played hide and seek and then it was another type of tag game. They always enjoy going to the park and I only had to get two girls down from a precarious situation when they went too high and were stuck.

We came back to the house, had a cold drink of water and looked at some of the photos from last summer.
It sure is fun to look back at all of the fun times we had together.

Maybe you'll have those pictures posted at their high school grad parties? Ha!

Now that we have lemonade, signs and cookies made we'll likely have our sale next Friday or the week after depending on the weather.

Time is flying by and we have so much more to do!

Until next time..