As I mentioned in my earlier post, A Family Harvest, I like to follow up any special educational outing by adding relevant work to our shelves. I found a lapbook we want to put together at HomeSchoolShare.com this spring when we were planting our garden but we haven't had a chance to do it yet. At the same link you will find a garden matching game. I chose to cut it up and place the vegetable cards in this little green basket left over from an Easter game. My boys matched them up with beginning sounds from our movable alphabet. The pictures really are quite nice (despite what they look like in this awful photograph, blast the camera phone!) and if you don't happen to have a movable alphabet letter cards are included.
This vegetable pattern matching game from the same site is meant to be a file folder game but we just put it in a basket and set in on our shelves.
You may have spotted this in one of my earlier post when Blake was matching the cards to the veggies after someone read the words to him.
Logan is just really getting into reading so he was really excited to find that he can read the words for himself now.
Of course with all of those delicious fresh veggies in our kitchen, much of our day was spent in chopping and stirring. This is the very best fresh salsa I've ever had and you simply must make it with tomatoes fresh from the garden, at the very least from your local farmer's market. A bottle of this with avocado and olives added and a bag of chips make a lovely gift.
8-10 Romas
6-7 other tomatoes
1/4 of jalapeno or 1 tsp. canned
1 large red onion
fresh cilantro 1/2-1 bunch
1 or 2 cloves garlic
1 can red and 1 can green Herdaz salsa
(these are little cans, found mine at Walmart, the red is spicy so I used half)
salt and pepper to taste
add chopped avocado if eating immediately
Enjoy!
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