Today is…Friday Mar 18 2011
Our morning exercise at the gym turned into a fun jaunt down to the creek when we found the Gym beautifully set up for a wedding reception. With sunshine, lack of wind, melting snow, and above freezing temperatures the walk was great! In fact the boys took their “speed bikes” and we had a little bike ride along the melting creek.
When we got home, the boys really wanted to play with blocks, and mommy really wanted to try a new recipe, so we didn’t get down to learning until the afternoon.
Giant helped me get a second set of “Tomato Tree” tomatoes ready:
Then he busied himself cutting the box for the tomatoes…
…into a Turtle house:
He helped me fold laundry,
And we looked at some cute math games from this book, “Anno’s Math Games”:
They have cute ways of comparing and categorizing:
And to top off our math work, we got to do a totally awesome math sheet sent by Grandma and Grandpa:
Too Fun!!! Giant counted the people in the pictures (pictures from our trip to Texas) and wrote the corresponding number on the line beside the picture. Ettin loved talking about all the people in the pictures.
These are great! I think every letter we get follows the boys around the house, comes to the dinner table, and is lovingly re-read throughout the day.
Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!
Finally, just before bedtime, we had a gospel lesson.
We talked about the parable of the ten virgins, modernized with flashlights.
We talked about what we can to to fill our oil and charge our batteries (like, praying, reading scriptures, service, having a clean house, showing love to one another, and so on).
Then the boys turned out the lights and played with flashlights for the next hour.
I think they’re learning,
I think they’re learning,
I think they’re learning.