"V" week

"V" is for Vatican

We looked at the pictures in The Vatican (and other Christian Holy Places) and made our own Vatican Flag using the directions from my Catholic Icing Preschool Curriculum book.  Seriously, so glad I purchased this book.  We also found the Church/Vatican flag when we made a visit to Jesus at Church after our weekly trip to the library.  As an aside, the aforementioned book about the Vatican was a nice resource for pictures, I don't know that I would use it for anything theological however, I've an inkling the author was not even Catholic. :-D

"V" is for Virgin Mary

We made this Virgin Mary craft (also from Catholic Icing).  It turned out pretty neat, but it was way more work and way more mess than I anticipated.  I didn't use the stained-glass paints, I just mixed glue with acrylics, and while that worked fine it didn't wipe off as nicely as was implied when the kids painted outside the lines, and I had to repaint the black outlines after the kids were done.  And the kids (especially Kolbe) got pretty messy.  Like I said...quite a bit of time and mess, but the kids were proud of their final products.  They do look neat as sun-catchers, but we opted to hang them on our cabinet where we usually hang weekly projects so as to avoid tape on our (new) windows.  ;-D

This craft fit in very well this week since May is the month of the Blessed Virgin.  We also added a small Mary statue to our table centerpiece and start our morning prayers with "Immaculate Mary" in honor of the Blessed Virgin in the month of May.

"V" is for Vegetables

We checked out

Growing Vegetable Soup

and

Eating the Alphabet

Both great books for talking about veggies (and fruits).  Gemma also enjoyed this veggie-basket craft.

"V" is for Visitors

Our very favorite book for "V" week was A Visitor for Bear.  What a great story.  Gemma liked it so much, and I just thoroughly enjoyed reading it.  The vocabulary in it was fantastic.  Big words used in simple context.  And a fun, sweet story to boot.

We also enjoyed some visitors at our house...on Friday we hosted our first playgroup with my Catholic Motherhood mamas and their kids and had a splendid time playing with everyone.  Too bad I forgot to take any pictures.

That's all for this week!  Can't believe we're down to the last four letters!!!