Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Finn


 
 Here's our chubby babe kicking up a storm. At two months, he is laughing and cooing. 

 
Keiran and Finn. 

 
He has started teething, and caught a nap on mom's bed today. 

 
Bright eyes.

Four year old mechanic.


Keiran is my mechanical minded littte boy (just like his daddy).


Art around here.


 
Imaginative play: My kids are always dreaming up new scenarios.... aren't all kids? They love to play family- mom and dad, baby, and puppy. Gemma loves to play dolls. Aiden likes to make up spy games. He writes out plans and puts up signs on his bedroom door. They all love to play restaurant and take orders, complete with a little note pad. Lately they have been making their own little library. Oh, and of course, Keiran loves to play anything to do with trucks.  

 
Boy art: Lego. Aiden has been working on different Lego Castle pieces. He is a pro now :) 

 
Aiden received a Marker Maker set this Christmas from his aunt and uncle. He made numerous cases of markers, mixing up colors and putting the markers together (an interesting process). Here he is using his homemade red. 

 
My Gemma. She never draws the same face twice. She decided to draw her new dolls. 

 
"Don't move my doll, mom. I am drawing her." 

 
A blue doll. 

 
A green stripey doll. 

 
A pair. 

 
Puzzles. The kids are constantly making puzzles.

 
Potato stamps. (With acrylic paints.) 

My pre-k kiddo. 

 
Gem. 

Aiden's painting.

Shared Sonlight Science

The kids have been learning about underwater things.

 
Sonlight science questions. 

 
This last question made me laugh.
Q: Why did God create fish of different colors? 
Aiden's A: To know what kind they are? 
Haha. I had to give him that one.  

 
Aiden got a microscope for a Christmas present. The kids have taken turns examining slides of blood, yeast, fish eggs, fuzz, hair, etc. 

Gemma's Singapore Math B.


 
Gem started book two of Singapore Math (Earlybird B). 

 
Mixing it up for a day- sorting and counting up to 20. 

 
Counting and writing teens. 

 
And more.

 
Up to 19. 

 
Shall we add :) 

 


Counting up, cutting, gluing. 

 
Learning to add. 

 
:) 

Aiden's grade two math, second half.


 
Aiden has started subtraction in Math-U-See. 

 
He caught on right away. The teaching videos are working great for us this year. 

 
More taking away. 

Aiden's English January 2014


 
Persuasive paragraph. (Sonlight Grade Two.)

Explode the Code work. 

 
Descriptive paragraph. 

 
Sonlight copywork. 

 
Learning to make a graph. 

 
Graphing the most loved ice cream flavors.(Imaginative of course, since half of us are allergic to ice cream.)

Gem's readers.



Gemma's English January 2014


 Gem matching letters.
 She has finished all of her capital letters in Handwriting Without Tears.
 Onto the second Code book.
 One of these things is not like the others.
 Pp.
 Moving onto small caps.
Sonlight K Copywork.
 A Princess story, by Gemma.
 More copywork.
And even more.