Waldorf Wednesday (Thursday Edition)

We stretched our latest story "Masha and the Bear" over two weeks because the boys came down with a stomach bug that prevented us from doing school for several days.

 

For our baking day (before the stomach bug hit) we baked a chocolate bundt cake.  We chose to bake a cake because in the story Masha hides beneath a cake in her basket in order to return home.  Sammy and Peter love baking chocolate bundt cake because it requires cracking so many eggs!

The next week Sammy had a homeschool class at the zoo.  It was about bats and very well-done.  He had a great time, and we were able to spend some time together just the two of us before his class walking around and looking at the animals.  We don't get a lot of one-on-one time, so that was really nice.  Peter stayed home with Daniel.

Our handwork took place over a few days.  I got the idea of making a bear cave to go along with our bear story from Almost Unschoolers.  On the first day we mixed up some glue and water and then the boys dipped newspaper strips in it and placed them on mixing bowls covered with aluminum foil:

After letting them dry overnight the boys painted them brown and grey.  They were so proud of their caves:

Making the caves gave us an opportunity to talk about Imbolc (which was last week) and how the natural world is readying itself for spring.  On Imbolc itself I read the boys this cute Groundhog Day story.  The groundhog story was supposed to be our main story all by itself for a week, but with their stomach virus I had to readjust our schedule - and I didn't want to leave the story out.  I'll be posting about our annual Imbolc hike tomorrow.  :)