Big co-op!

I joined the kids at the "big co-op" where all of the children were making a contribution to "Kid City." Each child created typical places that you would normally see in a city (or the surrounding area!). There was a post office, a park, a beach, and even an apple tree! I didn't get to see everyone's project but the kids all had a lot of fun. I also didn't get many pictures and neither did May since we were both so busy.

Coloring a cutout Corinne from Weaving Ends made him. She is super creative!

 

Jayden's contribution to Kid City was a pizza store.

Cait made a candy store.

But she spent most of her time eating her snack.

Park

Jayden's pizza store with Corinne's apple tree and Hayzel's Post Office

The green tape on the floor represented streets.

Snack time!

Out of the mouths of babes!

As if I'm not crazy enough, we joined a weekly story time at our local library.

Miss Something or Other The librarian talked to the kids about friends, friendship, and what it all meant. She asked the children if they had friends. Cait raised her hand and said "Hayzel is my friend!" The librarian asked, "What makes him a good friend?" and Cait said, "Well, I don't know. He makes me 100 ANGRY! But he's still my friend!" (She thinks 100 is the biggest number there is). Everyone thought that was funny, except Jayden, who shook his head in embarrassment. He thinks little sisters can be embarrassing sometimes.

A little boy named Wyatt said he had a friend that had "a big tummy" which got a lot of laughs too.

The librarian read a couple of stories she selected about friendship.

She got the kids up and dancing to some songs that the kids insist we should do everyday (too bad I can't remember the lyrics!)

 Then she read a couple more stories.

Finally, she used a felt board with felt cutouts of fish and ocean plants and made up another friendship story. Hopefully the kids got the point: be a good friend or the bigger fish will eat you. Well, that was the point in the felt board story. 

After story time, we went to the childrens section of the library where Cait was ecstatic to find a rocking chair. She immediately plopped her teeny butt on it and announced, "Look mom, I'm a grandma!" I guess little sisters can be embarrassing sometimes..

Pizza Boxes and Worksheets

I know there was a reason I kept thinking I needed pizza boxes. It must have been craft related. I'm choosing not to look back at previous posts to remind myself though. For now, I'll let these faces be the reason we have "Pizza Day" every week! And yes, this is how they were dressed to go buy pizza!

"Mom, you're not supposed to see a superhero's face!"

Nom Nom Nom!

Math Quiz- Score 100%

Identifying squares

 Practicing her writing skills with the number 5

She wrote the letter "E" by herself

Jayden: top two worksheets are from the elementary Daily Notebook over at www.ConfessionsofaHomeschooler.com, bottom is a math worksheet on Fact Families from T4L.

Cait's worksheet from www.EducationCreations.com

This normally retails for over $7 and May found it at the Dollar General! It's a cool workbook. Read here about what it teaches!

Jayden's Fact Family worksheet

We are starting to work on telling time with analog clocks. Below is a paper plate clock we made together.I promised Caitlin a digital watch when she learns to tell time on a digital clock, and I promised Jayden and analog watch when he can read analog time. This has motivated each of them to work hard. Hopefully within a few weeks, each kids will be sporting a new watch!

 

Library Science Co-op

Twice a month we have a science co-op at the library. Juan brings Jayden and Caitlin. I meet him there when I am done with my classes. I'm mentioning this because you will notice there aren't 654651231651321654651 as many pictures as I would take. You will also notice this during future co-ops. May and I hosted this time.

 

They did 3 science experiments with May. I don't know what the hell is going on here. I think it has something to do with sinking and floating.

I don't know what the hell this is.

Ohhh!!! I know what this is! Ocean in a bottle project! 

I never got a chance to take pictures of the kids doing the projects I brought, but they made aquariums which looked something like this:

This is Jayden's

I also made each child a "socktopus."(Directions for these can be found here) I was in a rush so we closed them off with rubber bands, instead of sewing them shut. My sewing  sucks!  Apparently, I had the most sewing skills out of everyone in the room. So while the lopsided and poorly stitched eyes were sewn on by me, no one laughed at the atrocity I created and All the kids all loved them!

 After co-op, Jayden read a story to Sydney

while Little Miss Anti-Social Cait played with the train set.