Today is…October 10-14, 2011
Monday morning I called the boys over for our Gospel Message. Giant said he’d come in a minute…which made me a little grumpy. My children should come when they’re called, correct? When I got up to haul him over encourage him to come quickly to the carpet, I discovered that he’d been working on his own Gospel Message:
“Jesus Luv/susweLuv/HiMToO” (Jesus loves us we love him too. I asked Giant if the family was him and his wifey and baby, he smiled dreamily and nodded 😉 )
So for the rest of the week our Gospel Messages focused on things we can do to show Love. A rather needed reminder for our family as bickering and contention have become a too frequent event.
Reading and Writing:
Look, letters! My Ettin is drawing letters!
His big brother runs interference for us, entertaining Galoot while I work with Ettin:
Thanks for takin’ the hit, buddy:
Giant read his phonics stories:
The boys practiced their sign language:
Math
With some Birthday money from Grandma Blackmore, Giant bought a nuts and bolts car that took us a good afternoon to put together. Lots of teeny tiny little pieces and horrid instructions (I ended up looking at the picture on the box for guidance). But it taught a lot of great lessons!
Giant also bought a measuring tape. A PINK measuring tape (his very favourite colour):
And, we also got to talk about tithing, and what a tenth means (we used handy nuts and bolts as our counters):
Arts and Crafts
We made some fun cannon poppers:
…and set up a sort of net game trying to shoot the ball into the bowls:
The boys did a lot of colouring. Ettin was meticulous, as usual:
He worked on that blue barn all morning. At one point he was almost crying because his hand hurt so much but he really wanted to finish the picture!
We went down to the library for the story program and the boys made animal handprints:
The boys made many creations out of cardboard boxes. Don’t worry, Ettin didn’t hurt himself:
…or at least that’s what he told me several times as he held his hand and glanced at me with a slight look of fear in his eyes. (What does it say about you as a mom when your kids are more worried about you knowing they hurt themselves than about actually hurting themselves. Probably shouldn’t ponder it too deeply 😉 ).
Robots:
Yay! We got to build one of daddy’s designs:
…Ettin just made his own creation up:
Galoot had a short nap while we were building, but when he woke up he kept himself busy:
“Don’t worry about me mom, I’m good. I’ll just keep cleaning up this pumpkin pie for you…”
Science:
Um, lets hear it for Bill Nye!
We studied magnetism and earthquakes. I learned a lot, thank you for asking.
Horticulture:
Ettin and I planted some bulbs for the spring in our front beds:
…He kept calling them onions.
…”You have y’ots and y’ots of y’iddo onions, don’t you mommy?! We are planting all your babies…”
We saw “y’ots” of ladybugs in the grass as we were planting. I guess we must have woken them up from their winter nap in our grass:
Sorry little guys! Go back to sleep.
What a fun week!