Today is…Wednesday
Morning: Scripture Study. “I am a Child of God”/Prayer/Enos/Prayer/”Rain is falling all around”
8-9: Cleaning time! Giant worked well on his jobs, and is learning to work around Ettin. (Meaning, getting less upset when Ettin dumps a box Giant just filled).
9am: @ the carpet. Welcome the boys to learning time. They gave me high fives.Prayer.
Story of Jesus. We quickly reviewed the Shepherds. Giant was still concerned with how the one shepherd boy got clothing made from fur. I explained that it was bad news for the animal, but that it kept the shepherd boy warm and dry. Moving on. We looked at a picture of the Wise Men (GAK 203). We discussed how the wise men were always watching and listening for signs of Christ’s birth. We also need to watch and listen to things that teach us about Christ, like our Prophet, General Conference, the Spirit, and to prepare ourselves for the 2nd coming. Just like Heavenly Father protected and guided the Wise Men, He will do the same for us.
Ettin entertained himself during this lesson:
I’d forgotten the camera and asked Giant to get it. This resulted in 5-10 mins of distraction as boys opened a camera case and fought over the parts inside while I still had to get up and get the camera I had put safetly out of reach of little hands:
Morning Message: Good Morn_ _ _ Boys! Today is Wednesday. What do you know _bout the m_ _n? (pattern) Love _ommy.
Drawing: We practiced drawing crescent shapes a little bit on the chalk board. (Not that I really care if he can draw crescents. This is really just an excuse to practice fine motor skills!)
Complete message: (we had a discussion about using “u” for about. Giant won.)
Independent Play: (I love that making a mess can have such a formal title 🙂 ). Reminder about clean up responsibilities (putting away a box before another one comes out.)
I made some more laundry soap, and the boys kept themselves busy. I’m sure they were really safe too. I’m sure Ettin was only on the table the couple of times I took pictures. Surely.
10am: Snack! Apple crescents and moon grapes. Whatever 🙂  . Giant loves to use our apple peeler:
We read “Goodnight Moon” and talked about night and day. While the boys continued to eat and look at the book,
I set up the wonderful visual. I tried to get a crescent shape of light to show up on the “earth” (big white ball), using a flashlight behind the little “moon,” (yellow ball). I finally got it to show up nicely, when I realized my mistake (the earth should have been shadowing the moon, not the other way around):
Fine. An even tricksier set up resulted in a dim but recognizable crescent of light on the moon. The boys were greatly impressed: “Mom, I’m still eating my snack now. You hold the flashlight,” basically sums up their response. Well, I thought it was cool!
Then comes the challenging part for Giant: Colouring AND cutting. Note the intense tounge of concentration.
Ettin was back and forth at this point. He’d half-heartedly coloured a picture of moons. Then went to play trains. Then came back to taste some popsicle sticks. And feed them to me. And suck on them some more. Yum!
This next picture shows a whole lot of work and effort from my Giant. I was honestly surprized he stuck with it so far. Yay! And yes, he cut their noses off on purpose.
He flew them around a bit, and then I stuck them on top of our message board for visuals for the rest of the week.
Independent Play. Phew.