New Addition

 Her name is Sandi, and yes she's a Chihuahua. This is a brave new adventure for us, but hopefully it will be a good one. One that will teach responsibility, and distract the little electronic addicted minds in our house, and  direct them to more wholesome activities.
 
 

Sight Words & Reading

As we all know, sight words are an important part of the learning to read. As Mr. W becomes more confident with each word his ability to read stories by himself gets stronger and stronger. We started off with list and flash cards, and now have moved on to using these colourful popsicle sticks to keep things interesting and fun. Some times we play games with them to mix things up a bit. One game is to randomly pick 5-7 sticks out of the pile. Lay them out and try to make a funny sentence out of them.

Cuttings

Mr. W is always asking if he can grow different things, so when our Begonia plant got neglected over the holidays, and was looking a little worse for wear, we took a cutting of it. We stuck it in a blow of water and placed it in the window sill to get as much sunlight as possible. We are keeping track of its progress to see what happens. We will keep you posted with updated photos of its growth. The purpose of the experiment is to see if you can grow a Begonia from a cutting.

Pattern Blocks

Here are a few pictures of the kids creations they made out of the pattern blocks after math one day.

 Mr. W is really proud of  this beauty. He design and build by himself this awesome house for his lego guys that he got for Christmas. The building materials he used were wood popsicle sticks and hot glue.

Building Stuctures

Here is one example of the structures that the kids make as they play. This is a Farm house with a fenced yard and guest house. It also contains an animal shelter.

Holiday Crafts

As part of our recycling unit Miss M and I made this cute little bag. We used a pair of her old jeans were to small and had holes in them and. The legs of the pants went to making her brothers jean quilt and the top part was recycled into a new fashion accessory. 

These socking were a Christmas Eve activity to pass the time while we waited.