February 2, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 0 Comments
Do you know my muffin man?
Okay, all I got were the crumbs on his face—the muffin seems to have disappeared.
Today while a wonderful friend took my boy to gymnastics (something about the -25 C temps with windwarnings in effect made her fear for our well being, perhaps?), me and my middle one made some muffins.
Okay, and cookies too (why stop baking when one kid is out and one kid is napping? Make cookies while the kitchen is quiet, says I)
After gymnastics we made Monster Mouths and sang some Monster songs:
After little-er boys were napping, Giant and I made (and labeled) maps to a dragon/bear cave:
(I tried hard to capture the most studious and serious look he had on his face as he gave a detailed account of every step on the map—he was very into it)
Then Giant found a rock.
Which needed painting.
So he painted it.
After Ettin woke up, Giant took him aside to teach him the important uses of elastic peg boards—a mainstay of every educational institution—such as making shapes:
and, more importantly…
shooting elastics.
February 2, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 0 Comments
Today…
Well, I fed my kids.
That’s what counts, right?
And it was thematic, too! — Monster Pancakes (they decorated peanut butter smeared pancakes with trail mix).
And we played hard with lots and lots of kids all day—No, I really have no worries about socialization and homeschooling!
February 2, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 1 Comment
We started our day bright and early with friends and puzzles:
Threaded some bears:
Decorated them with stamper felt pens, which included the symbols ! and ? … which led to a neat punctuation hunt in a favourite book:
Art is so much fun with friends!
February 1, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 2 Comments
The boys were eager to start crafts:
So Giant cut out a bear, which I then punched holes around the outer edge for him to lace a ribbon through:
Which actually made for an interesting math practice session too. Giant is still developing his persistence, and thus a prolonged fine-motor skilled repetitive movement craft that does not involve hurtling things through space tends to be a challenge for him. Which brings in the need for counting, backwards: “I have 5 holes left now…sigh….only 4 holes left mom, and then I’m done!…3 holes to put the string through…arrrrgghhhh!!….now there is just two and I’m finished…”
Tadah!
Ettin also got in on the arts and crafts session:
And then we had breakfast.
Oh, did I mention the boys were up at 5:30 this morning? Daddy had a course to go to early, so of course my boys had to wake up when he did. Thankfully they were pretty sweet…or there might have been trouble.
After breakfast Galoot held the object of our object lesson: we discussed how we can be “lights unto the world.”
Thanks buddy.
Ettin snuck in a little more arts and crafts (colouring and cutting) before naptime:
After lunch and Ettin and Galoot were napping, Giant and I hunted for gold….arrr’ matey.
We hid piles of blocks gold pieces around the living room, and then collected them to buy special treasures:
Oh, and I may have had him sort the gold peices into towers of tens and piles of ones. Thats right, me hearty, we were doin’ the maths.
January 27, 2011 - Posted by CayleenRae - 0 Comments
I felt so on the ball today!
We made it to the gym—only a few minutes late, and had a fun time playing with friends.
Then we came home to get ready for cousins!
Although they would have been very happy just playing with toys and each other, I wanted to try and get some schooling in there.
Besides, I was prepared. I had traced out some pooh bear pics before the kids woke up this morning, so by golly we were doing the activity.
They chose their pooh bear (I’d simplified some clip art of pooh bear off the internet).
Then they poked holes around the lines to make a pooh bear lantern (really just an excuse to exercise some fine motor skills):
Wow. Peer pressure is pretty powerful!
I’m pretty sure Giant would have decided he was finished about half-way through, but he had cousins who were excited about the activity, so he persevered.
Ettin also wasn’t too sure what he’d gotten himself into, but he made a valiant effort to poke some holes into poor pooh bear:
We took them into my bedroom to look at the nifty effect:
(which isn’t quite so nifty with the flash on, admittedly)
Alright you cute little stinkers, hop out of my bed!
Lunch was teddy bear and egg toast:
With the teddies either delightedly munched first, or saved for the last:
Hmm. Only as I scan through the pictures of the day do I realize that I totally dropped the ball with the gospel lesson.
Yes, I just made the resolve to teach a gospel lesson each day yesterday.
Thank goodness its a new ball game tomorrow!
