Snowed in!

Ok, maybe "snowed in" is a little bit of an exaggeration... Ok, maybe it's a big exaggeration! Either way, both children decided to grow, so we need to get them new winter boots. The kids have also lost their gloves so I need to buy more. Because of this, I convinced them that we shouldn't go out and play in the now slushy yard.Instead we baked chocolate chip cookies and ate them with warm milk.

For some reason they were eager to complete their school work which was fine by me.

I laminated the sheets we use most often for Jayden from our Elementary Daily Notebook, which right now happens to be the "What day is it?" and "What time is it?" worksheets.

Caitlin is seriously soaking things up like a sponge lately. She recognizes 22 letters of the alphabet and can tell you a lot of their sounds! Even though she doesn't know the sounds of all the letters, she is still itching to spell words. So I searched Pinterest to find something that was appropriate for her level and came across The Cookie Sheet Challenge. Using magnetic letters, she built the words according to the letters beside each picture. She built the words rug, bed, net, pin, dog, sun, mop, bug, tub, and cat.

During this time Jayden worked on his Morning Math- Week 5 and Spelling & Grammar workbooks.

 

Caitlin decided she wanted "a hundred more works!" so I printed out some Morning Math & LA Daily worksheets for her which she completed with minimal assistance!

She knows the "h," "b," and hard "c," sounds so she was able to decipher which word went with which picture.

 Jayden worked on a little writing assignment for spelling.

 

We finished up the school day with penmanship for Caitlin. I made her a worksheet with a handwriting worksheet generator.

 And Jayden started a Geography unit.

With the cold weather fast approaching, we have greatly scaled back on our outdoor activities. I don't like having us committed to a lot of activities when bad weather, sickness, and sometimes plan old lazy days keep us indoors. We are down to one science co-op twice a month, another science class that meets monthly, our indoor playground membership, the library, and friends to keep us busy until it starts warming up!