Today my 3.5 year old and I made homemade sea biscuits! If you are going to try out this recipe (the first one), I suggest either using a lower oven temperature or checking it after about 20 minutes so that you can poke the holes and cut your biscuits. I followed the directions and did not check on mine. When we took them out, they were already done. I did not get to poke the holes, cut them, and flip them over to continue baking. Oh well. They turned out good enough to eat, just a Read more [...] Sea Biscuits
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Today my 3.5 year old and I made homemade sea biscuits! If you are going to try out this recipe (the first one), I suggest either using a lower oven temperature or checking it after about 20 minutes so that you can poke the holes and cut your biscuits. I followed the directions and did not check on mine. When we took them out, they were already done. I did not get to poke the holes, cut them, and flip them over to continue baking. Oh well. They turned out good enough to eat, just a Read more [...] 
To finish up last week's Letter I, Esmeralda (3.5 years old) and I did a very tiny mini-unit on Italy for social studies. This mini-unit consists of a little geography, an Italian folklore, and a kitchen project making and baking bread! I have a list at the end of ways to expand this unit if you want to do more as well.
Geography: First we looked for a blank map of Italy to color. We found the blank map here. Esmeralda absolutely loved coloring Italy's map. Instead of just scribbling it 
We decided to decorate our pumpkins we got from the pumpkin patch earlier this month for the contest. We picked up some supplies from the dollar store. Since our 17 month old is not capable of much in terms of decorating, we bought him a sheet of 50 Halloween stickers so that he could help put the stickers on his pumpkin. Esmeralda loves arts and crafts so we bought her a Halloween felt package that includes felt pieces, pom poms, and pipe cleaners to glue onto her pumpkin.
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