Thursday, July 16, 2009

Garbage to Education?

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I know that none of you have this kind of poison in your pantry's. However, occaisonally it makes an appearance into mine. It seems to be a Thanksgiving necessity - on my celery sticks.
Well once Thanksgiving is over what am I to do with the rest.....?

This summer (not the same can from Thanksgiving - but it would probably last that long!!) I decided that instead of answering their requests for funny faces, tornadoes, Mickey Mouse, Batman or whatever else they could think of. I would do this...Photobucket
Grahm has to tell me what the letter is and give the sounds before he can eat his snack. Soon I think we will try some short words.
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Since Jayce is doing lots of other summer reading we are working on his math.
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He has to give the correct answer before he can eat his.
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Here he is pretending to think, just for my pictures!!!

I will have to think of other educational snacks!! Keeps snacking intersting.

3 comments:

Katie said...

Awesome idea! I am going to use this for sure! I'd love to hear any other ideas you have too:)

Kaleb and Abby Widmier said...

Could you be any more brilliant??? I think not...I hope you keep your blog going for a lifetime!!! I will need it to get through parenting when I get the opportunity! :)Thanks, Micah, for all of your ideas!

Micah said...

This is a great idea, I plan to try it with my own children. Thanks for sharing it.

Micah

BTW, Great Name LOL! :)