Last Week

This week we....

played with friends

helped Daddy fix a flat tire

ran errands

did some math games

had morning basket time

did some word searches

Marie-Therese read to me each day for at least 15 minutes if not longer

made lemon cookies

had Poetry Tea Time

played outside A LOT

weather journaled

went to the library

read, talked & watched a video about the water cycle

talked about & looked up pictures of land art

went to the beach to talk about the different clouds we saw, the water cycle & collect sea shells 

made land art

played on the playground

spent the day with Daddy planning out the garden: what we will plant, drawing up a "map" of the garden, buying all the supplies, filling the pots, planting the seeds

Tomorrow I will post (and Periscope) about the books we read in Morning Basket Time

March 1st

It was a busy day, and at the same time it was peaceful and flowed nicely.

We all were awake early---for us anyway! So we began with our new morning basket routine and then headed to the library for Marie-Therese to hang up her painting for our homeschool group's art show. If you are in our area stop by and see the wonderful talent that our group has!

We then ran a few errands, came back home for lunch and scrapped afternoon plans for an extremely cranky toddler!! Instead Marie-Therese and I headed outside for Poetry Tea Time....all poems about nature or leaping today! 

Then we worked on our March 1st prompt for the Mud Puddles Nature Lab. We get a lot of great nature ideas from the blog Mud Puddle to Meteors 

There has been a bit of practicing spelling and some creative time making bracelets with pom-poms and pipe cleaners and a bit more drawing time before bed!

November 2-6

We had a full week!

There was writing stories

coloring pages & talking about our beloved dead for All Souls Day

Poetry tea time where we ate cake we baked and read poems about the autumn fairies

practicing sounding out words and trying to read them

math consisted of graphing last months weather and Halloween candy: sorting, making patterns with, trading and counting

Drawing class with the homeschool co-op

socialization at ballet, drawing class, two playground dates with homeschool friends & chatting with our neighbor

outside time observing leaves, raking & finding all kinds of nature goodies: pieces of bark from the trees, a whole bunch of moss growing on the front steps & different insects

and that is all on top of our usual creating, reading, chores & living that we do!

I have declared today a day off since we all are battling colds (oh there was a building of a town with legos for a few days and then an epic battle between two forces to see who could take it over)

Weather: Snow

We are working on a mini weather "unit" this month. Marie-Therese was gifted the set of Weather Fairies so we are reading them a-loud at night with Daddy and then focusing on the specific weather that is talked about during the day. So far we have covered snow & wind (finishing up wind in the next day or two. A separate post on that the beginning of next week).

For snow we read through a few how snowflakes are formed books from the library; in that book they talked about the molecules that make up snowflakes & how they differ from salt & sugar molecules. So we looked at grains of salt & sugar using Daddy's jewelry loop.

Then we made crystals using pipe cleaners & Borax soap. That was a fun project (taught her to have some patience with the process!) we looked at the crystals and noted how they started out slow and then grew the longer we let them sit in the borax solution. She has plans to make more as Christmas gifts!

We also are tracking the weather each day. I printed out an October calendar and each morning we observe what the weather is, Marie-Therese looks up the temperature in the weather app & records both on the calendar.