Things We've Learned This Week

The kids' latest adventure with daddy now includes several rousing games of Mouse Match before he goes to work. Caitlin is pretty awesome at this game and has actually won several times!

 We learned a new recipe and turned this:

 into this:

Chocolate zucchini bread

 Jayden learned to tie his own laces!!

 One of my favorite drawings Jayden has ever made:

Jayden the astronaut on the moon. See the American flag he's putting on the moon?

 Cait working hard!

Jayden working hard! (We still really love T4L!)

We LOVE these Unifix Cubes. Jayden was having a difficult time understanding a certain concept about patterns on T4L. We whipped these babies out and he quickly grasped the concept!

I taught Cait the concept of patterns with the cubes and had her practice making some of her own with colors I called out to her.

 She even used them as counters for her first ever fill in the blank math worksheet!

 I love how she wrote her name here. The C and N are backwards!

Free books!

Caitlin recognizes most of the alphabet, but we still do worksheets to help her practice writing letters.

Jayden doing school work on the laptop at his desk

Caitlin listening to Spanish lessons on the laptop

Last week I found out our local used book store ran a promotion, giving school aged customers a coupon for a free book if they turned in a book report. I called in to find out if Cait could participate since she isn't exactly school aged and can not write her own report. It turned out that as long as she dictated the work, it was fine for me to write it. She chose There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves.

She wrote her name on top of the book report she dictated.

Jayden wrote his own book report, all by himself. He chose Little Critter: Just Critters Who Care.

Jayden showing off his book report.

Showing off their coupons!

I forgot to snap a picture of their books, but Jayden got Spongebob Superstar, and Caitlin got Dora's Sleepover.

After that we stopped to get ice cream.

Co-op

It's been a while since we had co-op. The kids were so happy to see everyone.

Jayden during show and tell

Caitlin during show and tell

Playing a game

Obstacle course

Bean bag toss

Jayden doing the limbo

Changes to the blog

I am remodeling the blog.

Every night before bed, I read to the kids for 30 mins. If you want to keep up with what book we are reading, you can see it on the right. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see that I have started keeping track of any chapter books we finish from now on. We still read other books on a daily basis, but they have so many that I decided to only keep track of the chapter books we read together.

I am also working on this year's school curriculum. Stay tuned for an update on the subjects and books we will be using!

Park

We have been taking advantage of a local park.It's not my favorite park, but the kids wear themselves out. Who can say no to that?