Papa Piccolo

We have truly enjoyed this book.  It raised a lot of interesting ideas, such as, what happens to animals that have no home and what happens to children who have no parents or caregivers.  It was a surprise to her to hear that not all children are loved.

She practiced sorting and charting using kitties.

She practiced writing.  She has completed both the upper and lower case letter books, so I am printing out a variety of words from our stories for her to practice writing.  Additionally, she practices writing her name.

We had a great lunch at our local Italian deli and bakery.  Rachel has discovered she loves lasagne and I let her pick out a small dessert from the case.

We got out the water colours and oil pastels.  After a couple of drawings, we discovered it was more fun to paint kleenex and put them up on the windows and doors.

Our best idea was to build Venice in Lego.  We put down some blue fabric, and then built Venice, added boats and held a regatta.  She also took some of her charting kitties and put them on the bridge, like in the story.  Note that she even put the kittens in the black gondola.

She ran upstairs and grabbed her bath toys.

She added gondoliers.

Sophia, Ceasar, and Papa Piccolo on the bridge.  Marco and Polo are in the black gondola.