Finishing Up Storm In The Night

By Lynn, on October 9th, 2008%

This week we finished up our studies of Storm in the Night using Five In A Row for our lesson plans.  This has always been a fun book to me.  It’s one we read sometimes just to read, as a bedtime story or whatever.  I love the dialogue between Grandfather and Thomas!  I can just hear how they’d sound to each other.

And you know me.  I was inspired to make something for the doll house.  As luck would have it – or should I say as the occasion was presented to me, I ran out of my favorite eye cream.  The little jar could certainly not be discarded.  Anything small has to be considered as furniture or some little thing for the dolls.  You’ll see the little jar sitting up at the corner of the book, above, freshly turned into a stool that doubles as storage.  For now, let’s take the top off and see what’s inside.

Oh, it looks exciting!!

It’s emergency supplies!!  A book of matches for the doll house candle, and a flashlight!  And they’ll always be located in the comfy storage stool so we know how to get to them quickly!

Do you know what the flashlight is made from?  The little extension pieces that you would use to increase the size of the posts in a scrapbook!  They even unscrew so the dolls can pretend to put in new batteries.  The tip, light and switch are tiny pieces of felt that were hot-glued on.

Here’s brother, who’s pulled the stool up close to sister’s bed so he can read to her.  She’s not feeling well today.

 The satin trim on the stool came from an old pair of pajama bottoms that finally wore out, but the tie around the waist was too pretty to throw out, so it went into the “string drawer.”  The top of the stool is padded with a cotton ball with a circular piece of fabric placed over the top and then hot-glued into place.  The final touch was the trim glued around.  The little matchbook is just a little black piece of paper folded with the matches drawn onto a white piece of paper and glued inside.

Now it’s off to Miss Michaela’s room where I’ll read and she can play with her doll house.  I’m sure I’ll get pulled in to whatever’s going on.

Lynn

PS – Miniatures are fun, but remember they are small and not for children too young to put thing in their mouths.

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Cloud Match

By Lynn, on October 6th, 2008%

We found a couple of neat sites to go with our study of Storm in the Night:

Cloud Match

and Send in the Clouds

Thought you might enjoy.

Lynn

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An Occasional Storm

By Lynn, on October 2nd, 2008%

I had already decided that the book we would row after Very Last First Time would be Storm in the Night. What I had not planned on was that we would have a thunder storm here the very night I had pulled it off the shelf.  Though I had planned to read it for the first time the next morning, I could not resist going up to Michaela’s room, snuggling up on her bed and reading Storm in the Night while we listened to driving rain on the tin roof and watched the windows light up with lightning. 

I guess all I’m trying to say is that I’m thankful for a storm on the first night we read the book, and if you ever have a thunderstorm at night, it might be a good night to throw the lesson plans into the wind and “row” Storm in the Night.  It surely made the story come alive to have a real thunderstorm going on outside.

Lynn

PS – Oh yes.  It was another one of those occasions I mentioned.  They sure do show up when you are counting everything as something to learn from.

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