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Natale is learning up a storm these days. 

When she arrived on Monday morning I handed her my "fancy" scissors and scrap paper to keep her busy while I organized school materials and lesson plans. She made a rabbit and then proceeded to write on its belly.

We are working on our third book (Modeled after Cookies Week by Cindy Ward) called Lily's week. I found a cute cat themed scrapbook kit that we are using for the story. When the book is finished our book celebration will include dog shaped cookies and a doggy play date for Natale's dog and Lily.

We are also writing the creation story to go along with Natale's watercolor paintings. 

We try to always finish our day by writing in Natale's Learning Journal, a kind of diary of one special thing that happened each school day.

After our calendar work this week we counted the days until Natale's  birthday in January, then cut colored paper strips, put them in AABBCC pattern order, wrote 1 to 17 on the strips and stapled them into a chain so Natale can keep track of the number of day's until her birthday.

Durung Hanukkah we spent several afternoons making Hanukkah gifts. Natale made a list of the people to whom she was going to give bookmarks. She crossed off each name as we wrapped and tagged the gift. I did have to wonder if I wasn't creating another list-dependent personality.

Another day while I was busy with something in the kitchen Natale used her white board to make a procedure chart for herself. The photo makes it a little tricky to read but it says: 

we r goon to do u project frst we goonto cot papr

nao we r goonto do u defret project

These are the kind of things that pushes a kindergarten teacher's delight button.