Friday Morning Coffee Catch Up – Dragons!

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn Coffee Catch UP

Hello everyone! Thank goodness for coffee this morning. I am chilled today, with the intense cold that we are having. Next week we have a deep freeze, with temps dipping down into the negative numbers. I hope to get all prepared today and tomorrow so that we barely have to step foot outside unless we have to, like for appointments and therapy. Poor Billy though will still have to leave for work in it.

This week has been another week of focusing on work – although we did throw some fun things in as well!

Wednesday Wyatt had physical therapy, but this week he had therapy, then a two hour wait before math tutoring, which was in the same building. So in between we went to the Henry Ford Museum! It was a fun way to spend a few hours. It was super weird, because it was an odd time and no one was there. Just a few other people but the museum is so big that we felt like it only Wyatt and I walking around.

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We are actually going to call off tutoring next week due to the cold, and just go home after therapy.

Yesterday, I decided to shake things up! Instead of our normal day of school, we celebrated Appreciate a Dragon Day. Wyatt has been working so hard that I thought he deserved a fun school day. So, it was all dragons all day! We started with reading books about dragons, then moved on to studying the dragons of Wales. We will be looking at Chinese dragons on Chinese New Year, so I thought we would stick with Western style dragons this week. I bought a unit study on Etsy that was about different dragons of the world, and we combined that with the book Dragonology, and had a blast. It felt like school, but… was all fun. Wyatt had to label cities on a map of Wales for one of the activities, and one of the names of the cities made me do a double take! It is, ahem, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, on the Isle of Anglesey. According to this article written by Rick Steves, it means “St. Mary’s Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave”. It had a smaller name until a tailor added to the name to try to attract visitors. I have to admit, I am a person who would definitely make a stop there because of the name!

Then, I had two projects lined up to make – an art project and a STEM project. However, the art project took us so long that we never made it to the STEM project! I will save it for another day. The art project turned out so cool though – it took us like two hours to make it together! We also listened to a dragon book on Spotify while we worked.

After that we took a bit of a break – or rather, Wyatt did. I was getting ready for the final part of Dragon Day- we were having a dragon themed dinner, snack, and then we were watching How to Train Your Dragon. I kept it simple, and it turned out pretty cute!

We all had Dragon’s wings grilled cheese (cheese on Black Rye bread cut into dragon wings), dragon scales (Doritos), and our snack was popcorn with Swedish fish bowls, because Toothless the dragon in the movie loves fish! Unfortunately, my little dragon explorer didn’t make it to the movie! He zonked out ten minutes in. Lol. So we turned it off and we will watch it either Saturday or Sunday instead.

Tonight I will be glad to plop into bed and just chill out, after a long week. I am going to my mom’s first though, to hang out for a bit, then when I get home, I will shower, get in my pajamas, and crawl into bed to watch some television and stitch and read my book! I started Hans Brinker yesterday and it is so good so far, although I am barely into it yet. This weekend we are finishing up some things so that next week we can stay tucked into the house as much as possible.

As for Dragon Day, this is what we read and used!

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A Friend for Dragon || Dragons Love Tacos || Dragonology || Attack of the Underwear Dragon || The Truth About Dragons || Rise of the Earth Dragon (listened on Spotify)

Wyatt’s favorite of the group was A Friend for Dragon. It was pretty funny honestly. Dav Pilkey is awesome. I loved The Truth About Dragons, which is about biracial identity, and it was absolutely beautifully written and illustrated.

And for the Dragon study by country, I used this.

Dragons of the World Study by Wildfeatheredu

And now for some random photos!

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And that is it from our very cold corner of Michigan! I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!

26 thoughts on “Friday Morning Coffee Catch Up – Dragons!”

  2. mireilleftm's avatar mireilleftm

    This sounds like so much fun! We had a dragon birthday theme for one of the boys a few years back. We had found a very large stuffed dragon, the ones that are as big as a child at Target marked on clearance after Christmas and bought it (we still have it) and centered the party around it. Made brownies and stenciled a dragon using powdered sugar (I just call it a brownie cake, we just don’t style them till after we take a picture and blow candles), and came up with dragon names. I love how you went all out though! And that city’s name, that is wild!

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  3. I thought our forecast in NC was cold for next week, but negative temps?! 😲 Brr! Y’all stay warm!!!

    Oh how I love dragons ❤ Now I’m feeling the need to rewatch How to Train Your Dragon – especially with the live action coming out this summer 😀 Speaking of the dragons of Wales – have we talked about The Hedgewitch of Foxhall? If not, it might be right up your alley 🙂

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  5. Joanne's avatar Joanne

    Such a fun, fun themed day! I love it. My youngest son loved the Dragon Master’s series. My personal favorite dragon book was The Dragon in the Sock Drawer; a longer chapter book but it was so fun to read aloud.

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  6. marsha57's avatar marsha57

    I love dragons and would love to have one some day. I suppose the closest I shall ever come is to see a Komodo Dragon! I think they’re just gorgeous, but I wouldn’t want one for a pet. I’d like to think, somewhere in the world, there still are dragons, wouldn’t you? When my oldest granddaughter was a baby and lived with us, I’d always tell her a bedtime story about Princess Amelia (her name) who owned unicorns and dragons. I always went into great details and used strong vocabulary in the hopes she’d be really into words. I don’t know if that was it or not, but she is an exceptional student. I did as her, one time, if she remembered the Princess Amelia stories. She told me she absolutely did and then recited some of the words. There were some parts I said every night. And, now I’m teary and nostalgic!

    We are going to be frigid starting Monday. Today (Friday), it was close to 50! Enjoy your weekend and stay warm!

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  7. Do we live in the same state? 😅 We’re having an “artic storm” this weekend and temperatures are dropping down into the negatives. 🥶 I plan on not leaving my house unless I absolutely have to.

    My son has recently gotten into dragon books/stories! We’ve been searching for different ones at the library.

    I hope you have an amazing weekend! Stay warm!

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  8. Cat @ Cat's Wire's avatar Cat

    Such a cute idea!A few years ago I watched a four part documentary with John Howe (who was part of the designers for Smaug) about dragons and their history, so interesting!Do you know The Last of the Dragons by Edith Nesbit? I have a German edition and the pictures are so very cute and I love the story.Cathttps://catswire.blogspot.com/

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  12. RAIN CITY READS's avatar RAIN CITY READS

    I wanted to stop back to thank you for this post! We had a couple of snow days this week, and school work was becoming a struggle and my kiddo was getting bored. I had shown them this post and explained about your dragon day, and it was met with huge excitement! I reserved Dragonology from the library and planned a research project using that and another mythical creatures book to teach research skills and project planning, which was so much more fun than with a boring reference book! I got a couple of other dragon themed activities (making dragon and dragon foot shaped cookies to decorate and making dragon caves in the snow with toy dragons). So we had a dragon day today as well, culminating in sampling a few dragon-themed movies (including How To Train Your Dragon which we didn’t make it through either!). My kid said it was the best day ever and wants to do it again! So thank you so much for the inspiration – it was a wonderful break in the week up here in our snowy area!

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    1. This was such a nice comment to wake up to today! Thank you so much!! I am so happy that our dragon day inspired one for your family, and that you had such a great time too!! I need to see these dragon feet cookies!! And using the snow is such a perfect idea!! This whole comment just warms my heart! Thank you for sharing this with me. 🙂

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