Science & feelings

Discovery Bottles: water with corn syrup & glitter, bits of pipe cleaner & a magnet wand, alphabet and rice, toothpicks with rice on the bottom (sounds like rain), sand and shells from our beach trip, water with food coloring + oil

I ended up replacing the "rain" bottle above with this one because it just wasn't working.  I think my bottle is too smooth to hold the toothpicks any other direction than vertically, so once you turn it over once and try to shake the rice down through, it kind of loses its pizazz.  The blue one is a mixture of foam shaving cream dissolved in warm water & then colored with a bit of food coloring.  It gets all swirly & looks really cool!

Feelings cards (pics from magazines) in 3x5 recipe card protectors (more feelings on the flip side) - it's interesting that the ones I almost didn't make (like naughty, for example) are the ones she really remembers.  She always points to it and says "naughty, tongue, no-no, step!" which basically translates to 'he's being naughty for sticking out his tongue & that's a no-no - he should sit on the step (our time-out)!'  It's been useful for helping her express herself a little better and understand what she's feeling (since we've been having some issues with aggression, as of late!