The doorbell rang

"The Doorbell Rang"  is a great book.  It is repetitive (which is great), it involves math, it involves sharing, and it is wonderful to retell by acting it out.  After reading it once we retold it with the kids acting it out with a plate of felt cookies.  They had to figure out how to divide up the cookies each time a friend came into our circle.

After at art we made cardboard cookies with puffy paint "frosting".  It was the same paint recipe I used for our gingerbread houses and men back in December.  This time the kids had experience with the paint and were better able to control their paint distribution. :)

And this time I let the kids work the microwave all my themselves.  I think that was their favorite part... putting their cookies in... and taking them back out.

We also had some great dramatic play going on through the day with our plate of cookies.