Cute book. A dragon burns a princess's castle to the ground, everything in it goes up in smoke including her clothes! She grabs a paper bag and promptly starts searching for the dragon who stole her betrothed, Ronald. She tricks the dragon and saves the prince. Instead of thanking her the prince scoffs at her appearance. The princess realizes Ronald is a jerk and dances off into the sunset by herself.
We made paper bag dresses.
And they used our box of recyclable craft things to make a dragon and paper bag clad princess so they could act out the book. (She had a cute face until little sister got a hold of her :p)
We raced back and forth around the house so the girls could feel exhausted like the dragon did after flying around the earth. We talked about our heart racing and our fast breathing. We discussed why both these things are happening and how oxygen keeps our body alive. We looked at the body app I posted about a couple of weeks ago. We also built this model lung.
Tamarin thought it was the coolest thing. Lemur didn't care. Howler carried it around for an hour blowing up the balloons.
I burned a few matches and we talked about the smell. We imagined smelling 100 burnt forests like in the book. Then we continued our talk about oxygen. We put a mason jar over the matches and I talked about how the fire needs oxygen just like we do.
We also incorporated the dragon into our math. If there were X trees and the dragon burned Y, etc.
We were going to make meatballs tonight for dinner (there's a brief mention of meatballs in the book), but the weather feels more like a stew and pound cake kind of night.
We also started doing yoga this week!
I found it on netflix. We did the first episode twice. I think it's going to be a good replacement for "circle time" which I've never been crazy about. Tamarin did the entire thing and Lemur participated till it got to the few minutes of meditation at the end.
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