Today is…Tuesday June 28 2011
After breakfast dishes were cleaned and put away, the boys escaped to their room to read:
They came out dressed and ready to play…Crazy Eights!:
We had our Gospel Lesson. We talked about how everything testifies of God:
Then the boys examined the book on Nature Experiments while they munched on trial mix:
Our experiment entailed two secure containers…
…and “leaf litter.” For our experiment we went poking around the dead leaves by our back steps looking for little critters:
Ettin wasn’t exactly into it:
We brought our critters inside (…ick).
We examined them through our nifty bug viewer, which magnified the bugs and let us look both above and below them:
Giant looked at the critters and drew them, adding any details he noticed:
“Worm”
“ant”
“spitdr” (spider)
“senepib” (centipede)
And the one he spent the most time on, “Wood bug”:
Did I force my boys to work on this? Insisting that they observe and write at their young tender ages?
Nope, actually I kept trying to get them to play with some very cute friends that had come to visit:
But they declined and begged me to keep fetching bugs for them to examine!:
I guess that is the awesome power of self-directed study!
After lunch they settled in for another read:
Made forts:
Coloured (and examined more bugs found in the house—a lady bug here):
And played games:
Mom says:
Cayleen, you are absolutely the most awesome, incredible mother. I just marvel at the teaching that happens in your home.