Valentine's Day

Tyler has basically aged out of Valentine's Day at school, but the girls still had some fun.  Kaitlyn needed to make a box, and decided she would like a Stranger Things box. With cute Harry Potter Valentines to give away.

One character really likes Eggo waffles, I guess, which for us meant that we had enough frozen waffles to last months and months.

I signed up to do a "center" in her class for many of the holidays this year.  When I searched Pinterest for a Valentine's activity, I found an awesome idea to create Binary code from pony beads on pipe cleaners.  It took a bit of work to make sheets for everyone, but her teacher absolutely loved it!  My favorite part was switching it from putting all the beads on a bracelet, like the Pinterest person had, to forming the pipe cleaner into the letter of the code they just made.  I had trouble figuring out how to keep the letters on there- I tried staples - but poking a hole though and folding the pipe cleaner back worked perfectly.  And I think the kids had fun, too.  I told them they were learning a special "robot language".

Kaitlyn was sad that "you never help in MY class!" so I volunteered in her room, too.  I manned the cookie decorating station.