baking bread feeding 5, not 5000

Today the activity for D to do along with his history (Bible) was baking bread since he read about Jesus' miracle when He made 5 loaves of bread (and 2 fish) feed 5000 people.  Our loaf fed 5 people. :o)

It was fun!  D was instructed to add ingredients & mix the dough in large Ziploc bag...

He was then to knead the dough for 8 minutes...he kneaded about 2 minutes then I took over. ;o)

He didn't mind getting his hands all messy or sticky though...

 We then placed the dough in a bowl and let it rise for 30 minutes.  Time was up while the kids were eating lunch so I ended up flattening it, rolling it and placing it in the loaf pan to rise again prior to baking it.

After baking, the final product of all our labor was this...

It was really good! D had a slice this afternoon and then another slice with dinner tonight. :o)

For Phonics, D read an entire HOP chapter book today.  It was about a detective and he was interested in it and asked to read all of it after chapter 1.  I wasn't going to say "no" to more reading.  I also encouraged him to begin reading our other "easy" chapter books on our bookshelves...we only have a few hundred books here at home. :O)  I told him we could make a chart to count the books he reads and after so many he could get something special (besides the Book-It certificate each month).  He read one right after lunch and designed his own chart - making a HUGE gauge that was already colored in for one book. I love it!

K learned about David & Jonathan today and had a few activities about friendship/sharing.  She painted her letter "K" with watercolor paints and listened to her Singing Bible CD song about David.