Monday's Discovery

This week's discovery - Kaleb is tired of being left out. He always wants to be in the middle of things when J and I are doing school. This time, he found something to do. For our space unit, I made some yellow felt stars for J to play with on our homemade felt board. I had planned on using them when we studied stars and constellations. After I cut them out, I placed them in a small container by the felt board. Kaleb decided he wanted to play.

He put them on the board and took them off. He got a little upset when they didn't stick just right.

He showed me a piece of pretzel he was eating It was in his mouth and I thought it was one of the stars. (you never know)

Isn't he cute? The only flaw was the board wasn't attached to anything so if he pushed on it too hard, it would tip over. He wasn't thrilled with that. I guess if he is going to play with it again, I need to figure a Kaleb-proof way for him to do it. Happy Monday and may you count your lucky stars ;)

Free Play Friday

We finished up all of our horse activities early and we had a chance for free play today. J worked with play dough and made some awesome creations.

And Kaleb wanted to join in the fun, so I showed him how to draw on the chalk board with chalk. Then I gave him a paint brush and showed him how to make the drawings disappear.

checking it out....

Messy but fun. Free play Friday was a success!

Horses

After a week long chicken pox/spring break, J requested that we learn about horses. We have several informational books on horses but no real core book. This is what we worked on.

We compared horses and zebras. Zebras are actually from the horse family so they are very similar.

Keke found a book in the library of horse coloring pictures. J chose a few and I printed them off for her to color. She is really taking her time to color in the lines. It is neat to look back and see how she was coloring/cutting a year ago to now.

We discussed the life cycle of a horse and J colored the cycle.

We found all of her horses in the animal bin and J measured them using our Inchimals. We discussed how horses are measured.

After we pulled the horses out, she played with them the rest of the day.

Our nursery rhyme is Peas Porridge. J is coloring the sheet for her nursery rhyme book.

J did a small craft that I found in one of my trade books. She cut out the peas and pod and sequenced the rhyme.

We searched through old magazines and found pictures of items J likes to eat. We separated them into hold/cold and she glued them on the soup pot. It was difficult for J to just look at the food in the magazines, she wanted to cut out every cute animal picture! Our next week will consist of learning about seeds and we will be participating in a virtual book club of the month. Can't wait. We are counting down the days 'til summer break. We have about seven more weeks and we are excited about seeing our family soon. Hope your week has been sunny and warm! Enjoy!

Two online books about horses in case you would like to read about them:

Ponies and Horses

See How They Grow - Ponies

Horse worksheets

Horse Life Cycle

Nursery Rhyme resource

Easter

We had a quiet Easter Sunday due to J having chicken pox and us waiting for Kaleb to sprout them as well. J was able to dye some eggs. Here's some of the fun.

You can still see some evidence of the chicken pox but they are healing nicely.

J's finished product - I'll have you know their expressions changed when we told them they were going to be eaten - haha. After J was finished with dying the eggs, she had some fun with the leftover dye. It was a great opportunity for her to learn about mixing colors. It was messy but fun. Hope your Easter was full of chocolate and fun.

Monday's Discovery

So much work to do....so little time...... How can you tell we use technology in our family? Watch my kids...

Kaleb is working on his laptop. He was just typing away and talking to it (like DH does when something doesn't go right). He had much to get done and he worked at it for awhile ...at least until bedtime. The rest would have to wait.

A Visit from the Chicken Fairy

We interrupt this week and possible next week for a visit from the chicken pox fairy. J has contacted chicken pox and we are waiting for Kaleb to show signs of the spots. Right now, we are probably either giving an oatmeal bath, rubbing lotion, or taking a nap. This is DH and DD spring break and we had hopes of going to the park, having a picnic lunch....but we are sidelined for awhile. I guess we will have to be happy to take our picnic on the balcony and playing in the house. We won't be doing school, we will be resting, watching movies, playing, reading. Be back as soon as possible.

Monday's Discovery

Keke needs to do her laundry, huh? Keke was watching Kaleb upstairs and she needed to bring her laundry down. She didn't want to make two trips, one for Kaleb and the other for the laundry. So she put him in the basket and they came down all at once.