Just a little funny

This is what happens if we don't put the produce away ASAP. Each kid has tried to eat green peppers, carrots, apples, cucumbers and other foods through the bag. Liv and George have outgrown their taste for plastic, but Virginia is a slow learner, I guess. Or just really, really hungry.

Nest Unit (and other animal homes)

Liv looked for stuff birds would use to make their home. She realized that the big sticks would be too heavy for them to carry to the trees, so maybe pine shats would be best. For glue we made some mud, and we mixed and molded. It is harder than it looks!

We think the birds do it better, but we tried. :)

School doesn't stop for Snack Time!

While manipulating some pretzel dough, we learned about the difference between print and cursive. Well, we just talked about how cursive was continuous lines and the letters were connected. After this lesson we started practicing individual cursive letters. She still writes in print, but she is learning to read words in cursive as she recognizes the "new" letters.

Then we just ate them. Yum!

Butter!

Continuing on with out Ingals Wilder studies, we made butter!

Some of our Fall projects

From our readings in the Little House on the Prairie series, we decided to learn about what makes a town (yay for finding something to do for Social Studies!). We discussed what Laura and her family saw as the town of De Smet was being build before their eyes, and what usually makes up a town today (firehouse, police station, homes, stores, library, ect.....). From an older High Five mag we cut out building templates to make our own town.

Stoufferville
Liv and George thought the little people added a nice touch. I do too.

A little art project learning about stamping, positive and negative space, and colors we see in Autumn.

The reason I've been gone.....

The reason I've been gone.....

1. I have a big mouth and can't keep a secret
2. I've been feeling oh so sick
3. We wanted to wait to see/hear the heartbeat!

Baby #4 is on his/her way and should arrive around June 11th! We are totally excited (when I'm not feeling run over by a truck and want to puke!!) ((I was never sick with the others, I'm such a baby!))

I will catch you up on our happenings as of late, even though a lot of it is just scraping by so I can take a nap with the little kids. :/

Moon Unit Cont'

We talked about astronauts on the moon. We talked about how they got there and looked at the pics on NASA.com of the shuttles. I asked her if she could take a spaceship to the moon. She said, "Yes, maybe if I was older and could stay by myself. And I need to learn to drive a car first." True.

I asked her to make a spaceship that she would take to the moon (after getting her license of course). She drew one in under a minute! I looked at the drawing and said it was too flat, we need to make something bigger. I brought up some boxes from the basement, duct tape, scissors and paper and we got to work. I cut and folded and she taped. Liv then painted the shuttle to make it "pretty." (Some days I love how feminine she is!)

Here is her finished spaceship!