"Every thing's free mom!"

I love this quote! It happened today as we made donuts for letter D day. When it was time to go this adorable little boy said, " Mom, we made donuts today. And every thing is free at preschool mom!" I couldn't stop laughing. What a cutie! We have been super busy but definitely are having a lot of fun. Last week we read the story, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Afterwards we made bear masks. The kids loved telling me if they were the papa bear, mamma bear or baby bear. I think a majority were baby bear.

We also made some homemade butter and put them on mini blueberry muffins for cooking this day. If you can't tell it was letter B day. 

The butter is super easy to make. Just whipping cream and a little salt. You can put it in a jar and shake it over and over again. We were almost out of time so we made ours in the blender. It was really good later after being in the fridge for a day. 

For letter C day we explored with the primary colors. We were able to mix them and make new colors. I always usually buy carnations to show how water travels up through the stem of the flowers. But the two stores I went to didn't have carnations so I ended up buying white daisies. I later learned that they don't work the same as carnations. All the dye got stuck in the center but didn't go out to the pedals. We will have to do this experiment over again. What a bummer :(  We also made caterpillars into the letter c. 

Also, I wanted to share some of the books we have been using lately. 

We use the big books for shared reading lessons. They are great because they follow a pattern and the kids are able to read along with me after I have read it first. We also use it to find the letter we are studying. I love the alphabet books. They have pictures with each word before making a small story. We use these during reading groups. The kids are so excited to be reading words. And of course everyone loves the I Spy books. 

Last but not least. Here are the delicious donuts we made today. They were so easy to make and were DELICIOUS! I think I will be making them for Christmas breakfast each year as a tradition. I have included Paula Dean's recipe if you are interested in making them. 

Yummy Donut Recipe