Sledding with friends

Last week the kids went sledding. On ice. While I was in an air cast boot for my sprained ankle. I can't count the number of panic attacks I had!

Overall the kids had fun, but by the end Jayden was pretty pissed. Either he kept slipping down the hill, or his sled would slip down the hill without him. I could tell he was done so I had him sit in the car while I chatted with him through the window and kept an eye on my little daredevil girl. I hope next time I can get on a sled and join them!

Gymnastics and Baseball

Gymnastics class is coming to a close soon. Cait has had a really great time doing it!

Jayden has about a month left of baseball clinics. We've had a couple of rough weeks with the coaches, but things went really well last weekend.

 Remember that  sign that said I couldn't go beyond a certain point? Well screw that. I went.

 Then I ran back to the other side and snapped a few more pictures.

A little bit of everything...

We recently started using Math in Focus 1Afor Caitlin. She really loves it, even though it is first grade math. We are following her pace, but the beginning concepts are pretty easy so far.

Last week she was learning vocabulary terms such as fewer, greater than, and less than.

 Using our Unifix Cubes, she practiced making sets to describe her vocabulary terms.

This week she worked on number patterns, counting shapes and numbers to figure out what comes next in the sequence. 

Jayden is doing amazing in school as well.He completed the first half of his math textbook and is almost finished with his Language Arts books. We found a Star Wars Mad Libs book which I intended to use as a fun supplement for Grammar, but he finished the entire book in one day!

After being sick and missing a class, then having class cancelled due to a snow storm, Jayden finally got to return to guitar class! I snuck around the front and took pictures from the side window, sans flash so I wouldn't get caught. Horrible quality, but he looks so cute!

Whole he was in class Caitlin made Juan a Valentine.

And finally, we went to a gym class after having lunch at a friend's house. The kids played various games, including dodge ball, duck duck goose, and some form of organized, yet chaotic, tag.

Picking up where we left off!

It's been over 3 weeks since my last post. We have been super busy. We took a week off of school in the beginning of February because both kids were sick. Jayden had a double ear infection and Caitlin had pneumonia!

After they were both better, Cait and I took a mommy/daughter trip to Florida, while Jayden and Juan had a daddy/son weekend.

She was sad when we were leaving because she was going to miss Juan & Jayden. 

But she was also sad when it was time to come back home. 

I got a picture from Juan and Jayden with fake sad faces.  They spent an enormous amount of time playing video games. Except for when they went a winter festival at a camp. They spent the day sledding, playing floor hockey (on ice... with NO skates... don't get me started!), making bird feeders, and having s'mores with hot cocoa.

Finally, when the weekend was over, we returned back to our regularly scheduled programming. The kids had karate the next day, and they FINALLY got to break boards! They both broke their boards on the first try!

Science & History

We recently started our unit on the Animal Kingdom. The first order of business was to read about cnidarians. (Why the eff is there a silent "c" here?!)

We read about the characteristics of cnidarians and studied the life cycle of a jellyfish, which is a type of cnidarian.

After coloring in their picture from the textbook and another one from here, we watched a video on youtube about jellyfish reproduction.

We also took a trip to the library and borrowed two books on cnidarians, Jellyfish Underwater World and Sea Anemones.

 

Later on we moved on to history, reading about the Phoenicians. The kids both colored a Phoenician ship, which we learned the Phoenicians used to travel the Mediterranean Sea in order to trade. The Phoenicians were great sailors, we also learned. 

Jayden also did his map work, shading in the Mediterranean Sea as well as the areas where Phoenicians settled.