Miss M celebrated her 8th birthday this week! And boy did we celebrate! Family came last weekend after her horse show to eat birthday cake. On her birthday, Grandma and Grandpa R met us for dinner out after dance lessons, and then two days later, Grandma and Grandpa R drove with us two hours to see live Magic Tree House characters! It has been an awesome birthday week!!!
I want to share some of the birthday activities we did for Miss M's big day. She (and her brother) had a blast, and we got some learning squeezed in, too! I borrowed some fabulous ideas from The Nature of Grace!
When she woke up, Miss M found I had put up pink crepe paper around the house and 8 pink balloons in her bed. When she got to the school room, she had 8 more balloons taped to her chair. She had new spelling words in 6 of the balloons, so she and Mr. J took turns popping the balloons to find the words.
After she was finished with her spelling words, we spent some time doing birthday candle math. She put 8 candles on the cake, and she practiced fractions (3/8 of the candles were blue, etc.) Mr. J thought it looked like so much fun that he needed his own cake for practice.
After math, Miss M worked on a birthday thumbprint book. It turned out well, and she had so much fun creating it.
My next post will hopefully have pictures of our meeting with Jack and Annie from The Magic Treehouse series!!!
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