1st of November!

Today was FULL of lessons!

J did a few worksheets:

Matching words to pictures

 

Pattern recognition

Find all of the letter Ee's

Practicing his writing

He also put all of the elephants in size order:

Meanwhile the Diva colored:

 Then she put the crayons away...

What I DON'T have pictured here is she threw every single crayon on the floor after this! She helped me pick most of them up though!

Today we also learned 2 other important lessons:

1. seven candies in one day is TOO much (unless having the kids bouncing off of the walls is what you want!)

and

2. Dog food and 2 year olds don't mix... especially when said two year olds nostrils are involved!

Let's hope for a smoother day tomorrow!

Pumpkins!!

This morning J & C did some school work with dad! They painted several pumpkins and discussed the texture of the pumpkins, measured and weighed one of the bigger pumpkins, and started carving it!

J's pumpkin

C's pumpkin (painted with a little bit of help!)

Dads small pumpkin!

Dads SCARY vampire pumpkin!

All together!

Getting ready to check out what the inside of a pumpkin looks like

Measuring the pumpkin

Funday Monday!

I hate Mondays! To lighten the mood we made today a relaxed Funday Monday!

J went out to the yard to get some exercise in with dad!

He was really tired after that but refused to nap. I knew he wasn't going to nap so I decided not to fight this battle. I also knew that him being tired meant today wasn't a good day for sit down work so I let him play his game.

 After lunch we made some cookies. I wanted to make them Halloween themed so we tried our new bat cookie cutter...

But the dough was too sticky so it didn't work. Sooo we decided to try something else...

We rolled them into balls, flattened them out and smashed them with a fork to give it a pumpkin kind of look. After one batch of that J decided he was done with the fork part and wanted to just make them in regular shapes because they didn't look like real pumpkins.

Sooo we waited for the cookies to finish baking...

Screaming "No pictureeeeesssssssssssss mommy!!"

 And here they are! (Well this is the second batch. I forgot to take a picture of the "pumpkin" cookies)

Sooooooooooo on Wednesday J decided he wanted to complete all of his work for the day, as well as for Thursday, at once! I let him because, well, I can't really be opposed to him wanting extra work can I?

That left us free yesterday! I think next week I will be scheduling a little bit more work for him!

Here is what nap time/ quiet time looked like:

 She was SO not feeling the camera!

Don't worry!

I haven't forgotten about the blog today. Blogger image uploads are disabled for maintenance today so I will get everything up tomorrow!