Today is…Tuesday, Sept 28 2010
Gymnastics today. So our morning routine was, yes, rushed.
But we did:
-Pray
-Talk about the boy Samuel being called by God, and about how we need to prepare ourselves and homes to be able to hear God when He talks to us through the Spirit:
-Read our message (though I missed writing the numeral for our dots):
Ettin and Galoot were content during this time to be in the next room (I share this because my biggest homeschooling question is always, what are the other kids doing?!):
As I nursed Galoot, I could hear Giant talking about how he knew which number it was (referring to our message), and how we needed to write the numbers above the dots. But I wasn’t paying much attention.
Then he showed me what he was talking about:
Cool! He had put the correct numeral over the different number families (tens and ones)!
Then we walked to the Civic Centre—where gymnastics is held in our tiny town. Giant loves it, and I love having an activity to take him to through the winter. When we are there, Ettin gets to play with the little brother of Giant’s friend who is also taking gymnastics. And Galoot eats and sleeps and fusses. Just so you know.
After gymnastics, we started the walk home.
Giant started to grump wanting to ride on the stroller too.
In an effort to distract him (and not due to anything brilliantly planned on my part) I started to ask him about the leaves on the ground. What colours and shapes he saw. And we collected a few samples.
I tell you this because these distracting leaves became a really neat art project when we got home. Read on!
We came home (with our stash of fall leaves), and had a snack.
Then I read a couple of stories while Galoot had a snack too:
Ettin joined us eventually:
Then we went back to the table and cleaned up snack plates, and started our impromptu craft.
We taped the leaves onto paper:
Turned the paper over and rubbed a crayon over top of the paper to bring out the veins and shapes of the leaves (Ettin really wanted to use felts. Whatever.):
[Galoot was not happy being left out of the fun:
…so he came to help (that’s me rolling tape and holding a Galoot)] :
We cut out the leaves:
We taped them up:
And we admired our work (I love the “fallen” pile of leaves and apples at the base of the tree):
