Today is…October 3-7 2011
The Gospel Message we studied this week was on serving others. We wrote ways in which we can help others and others help us. We reenacted the story of the Good Samaritan (Ettin was VERY disturbed to see mommy lying sick on the floor. “Mommy, you t’ant do dat! You t’ant be on da w’oad!”) And we talked about ways to serve in our family. (Giant has written: read books and wash dishes)
Giant had a blast doing math worksheets. Crazy kid:
(Ettin wrote lots of numbers too 😉 ):
They created some nifty looking patterns out of fun shapes:
…while I sewed a cover for our mini-tramp (which is making a much needed comeback in this colder weather):
We talked about the pilgrims and ate some popcorn in their honour:
And we made some turkey art for our wall:
With the weather holding out, we have been busy in the garden. The boys helped clean and organize our plethora pumpkins:
And we have enjoyed lots of snuggly time reading together:
On Friday, daddy had the boys help him sort lego while mommy processed grape juice. The house smelled like candy, and my hands itched like crazy!!! (a previously unknown side-effect of grape handling!):
I recently got the book “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons,” from the library. I looked at this when I’d started teaching Giant to read, and found his (and my) attention span severely lacking. However, Ettin is the type of child who actually LIKES to sit and colour or focus on work. So I tried a couple of lessons with him and was delighted to discover that he also likes to sit and do these lessons! I think he is also tickled to be “reading.” He has come to me a couple of times lately with a book in hand and proudly “read” me the title, so I thought some official learning time was in order. We’ll see how this goes!
*Update* On the way home from a family gathering, Ettin was examining the wall where people’s names had been engraved (officially) into the log walls. “Mommy,” he exclaims, “I found a “M”! That’s me!” It’s so neat to see him recognizing letters!
Oh, and speaking of Ettin, we took his training wheels off his birthday bike! He is a little unsure of himself but can keep pedaling once he gets going. We are working on stop and go 😉 Yay Ettin!!!
