What a terrific day, today!!
David took Aden to the Tamarac this morning, then got new tires on my van! So, Kendyl and I had all morning together!
We sang praise songs together and danced around all crazy!! FUN! Then we did math--went terrific. Then we did a follow-up project to our zoo trip. We made a 'train'...she glued pics of some of the animals we saw at the zoo, onto a folded piece of paper (a train car). She wrote the animal's 'name' above each picture...in the inside, we wrote a little about each animal. It's habitat, what it eats, and one thing she likes about this animal. At the zoo, there was a wooded toy train that kids could climb on...I knew we were going to do this project, so made sure to take a pic of each of my kids in the 'engine' of the train. So, she glued a pic of her 'driving' the train, onto the engine of her train. Monday, I will have her write a little about the zoo trip inside this page.
Kendyl played for awhile and I cleaned :) Then we played 'store' together--her idea--wasn't in my 'plan' for the day...but what a great, fun way to bring math & dramatic play in!! So, I had her make dollar & cent signs for a bunch of toys and tape them on. Then she made some 'dollars' out of paper and used bingo tokens as 'cents'. This was great because she was practicing writing her numbers (which she usually HATES to do)--and was having FUN doing it!!! (she didn't realize we were 'doing school' ;) awesome! Then she had to 'read' the numbers, count, add and subtract 'money' and all while having FUN!! Isn't homeschooling GREAT! :)
Daddy got home and we had lunch...went over our Spanish words... then Bible story & verses... Aden almost has his memorized :) FUN!!
The night before, we had put 2 white hardboiled eggs into cups of Soda... we asked the kids to make hypothesis' (guesses) about what they thought would happen to the eggs... then today we took them out and saw that they were brown! Kendyl was right! ;) So, we recorded our observations on our science record sheet... then did what Dorie suggested and had a health lesson! Gave the kids each a toothbrush with toothpaste and let them scrub the grime off the eggs! It was not easy! We talked about good teeth cleaning habits... great lesson!! thanks, Dorie!! :)
Later, we gave Kendyl and Aden their very first real tool bags with tools!! Seriously, it was like Christmas!! They were BOTH soooo excited to learn how to use all their tools and help Daddy in the garage!! So, Daddy made them each their own 'practice boards' that have nails, screws, bolts, etc. They practiced hammering, screwing, measuring and much more!! Aden is really good!! I was quite impressed! :)
Kendyl and I did her Hooked on Phonics and read some stories together...then finished her math practice sheet.
Tonight, Daddy decided to kill our child-attacking rooster, because it attacked Kendyl AGAIN!! So, off with its head!! I didn't let the kids watch, even though they wanted to!! I know, I'm mean and overprotective!! but, GROSS!!! Dinner tomorrow!! lol!
It was such a fun day! Hope next week is filled with this much fun! :)
Gross...you are going to eat the killer rooster?
ReplyDeleteLOL...that's great! what was the egg thing? Kali and I were JUST talking about keeping our teeth cleaned last night. That would be a GREAT project. She was saying that unless mommy and daddy tell her to brush her teeth before bed, which is pretty much every day, she does not do it. So we discussed again why it's so important. Great lesson around the campfire. :)
ReplyDeleteWow seriously you make school so much fun.
ReplyDeleteThe egg expierement also sounds like its a great teaching tool <3
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I can't believe your kids actually wanted to watch the head being chopped off...nasty
I love your excitement and your enthusiasm, Elizabeth! Good work Dahlstrom team!
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