Week 11: The Angus Books

In Week 11 we read Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack. Our Before Five In A Row curriculum recommended we read Angus Lost.  When I bought all of my books in the beginning of the year I did not realize I was shipped a few of the wrong books! Thanks to Amazon Prime I ended up ordering and quickly receiving the Angus Lost book after hearing from a friend there is a great looking Collie in the story. 

Angus is a Scottie dog who is very curious about the world outside his home.  Like all dogs he becomes bored with : "The SAME THINGS" and needs a change so he wanders outside and underneath the fence in his yard.  Both stories are based on Angus leaving his yard and encountering the outside world.  

Our letter of the week was D and we had fun with some sheets from www.homeschoolcreations.com.  For Christmas I bought the kids a Dot and Dashes paint set.  We opened it and used it to dot the letter D. They loved this activity! A fun new way for them to paint. If you are not familiar with this type of paint set think bingo dabbers. 

Next we made "cookies" for a few of our Doggie friends.  Here is the recipe we used:

Peanut Butter Dog Cookies

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup oil

2 eggs

3 tablespoons peanut butter

2 tsp. vanilla

2 cups flour

1/2 cup cornmeal

1/2 cup quick oats

Blend the wet ingredients together. Mix the dry ingredients together then add to the wet mixture to form a ball of dough.  Roll out and shape into round cookies (or use a cookie cutter).  Put on a greased cookie tray and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.  The cookies should be hard and crispy. Store in an airtight container.

Liberty LOVED her home made cookies! So did Torrey, and Willow other Collie's in our family. I tasted one too and they weren't too bad. Yes, we do have a little obsession with Collie's.  Since we had a dog theme going on this week we also read a Lassie book that I had on our book shelf.  

In Angus and the Ducks, Angus the dog crawls under a large green hedge in order to get on the other side of the garden in his yard. So one day I constructed a make believe hedge in our living room with large green blanket. The kids played under it forever. On a boring day inside you can NEVER go wrong building your child a tunnel, tent or fort! 

 Here is my oldest son flapping his wings like a duck from Angus and the Ducks.

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